A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
Advanced form of water wheel
A huge waterwheel that produced power for hardrock mining equipment, invented by Lester Pelton in 1878. Examples have been preserved at North Star Mining Museum in Grass Valley and at Sierra County Historical Park & Museum near Sierra City.
an impulse hydro turbine)
an impulse turbine in which pairs of cup-shaped buckets are mounted around a wheel
a pressure turbine which runs off a gravity water system
type of radial flow turbine meter: turbine used for extracting energy from water.
Small waterwheel with cups into which a jet of water was directed.
Invented around 1890, to improve the water wheel and to drive electrical generators, this water turbine wheel has high pressure water directed at the buckets around its outside, turning the wheel.
A Pelton wheel, also called a Pelton turbine, is one of the most efficient types of water turbines. It is an impulse machine, meaning that it uses Newton's second law to extract energy from a jet of fluid.