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Powerhouse #8
- Description
- Powerhouse #8 - Johnson valve and special reinforced section of penstock in place.
- Date
- 7/7/1921
- Call number
- photCL SCE 02 - 07110
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Powerhouse 8 - 42 ton Johnson valve and portion of penstock.
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Powerhouse No. 8, Part One. Photographs of Dam 6, Camp 34, Camp 38, overview of Powerhouse 8 and penstock, milling Powerhouse 8 draft tube, operator's cottage, forebay, sluicing tailrace, generator floor, switchboard, rocks washed into tailrace after penstock burst, Unit No. 2 at Pelton Water Wheel Co., generator and governor at Powerhouse 8, penstock vent, transformers and bus, station power sets, switchboard, broken penstock, drilling tunnel No. 8, repaired penstock, steel forebay, Camp 32 cook house, Johnson Valve, Camp 33.
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Powerhouse No. 8, Part Two. Photographs of Powerhouse 8 diversion, excavation for powerhouse, diversion tunnel construction, interior shots of Powerhouse No. 8 (transformers, control room, turbine-generator assembly, station power, Johnson Valve, turbine runner, crane assembly, scroll case assembly, draft tube); Penstock rupture - ripped Penstock, flattened pipe, damage to powerhouse and other facilities, reshaping pipe, adding reinforcing bands to high stress sections of penstock; Camp 33, operator dormitory, substation, incline construction.
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Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 2) [Powerhouse #8 - Diversion, excavation for powerhouse, diversion tunnel construction, interior shots of PH #8 (transformers, control room, turbine-generator assembly, station power, Johnson Valve, turbine runner, crane assembly, scroll case assembly, draft tube); Penstock rupture - ripped Penstock, flattened pipe, damage to powerhouse and other facilities, reshaping pipe, adding reinforcing bands to high stress sections of penstock; Camp 33, operator dormitory, substation, incline construction.]
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