Visual Materials

Big Creek

Description: Big Creek - Break in pressure main at 5am (8/20/1921) [Huge section of the 1.12 inch thick steel penstock ripped like cardboard.]
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 8/20/1921
Call number: photCL SCE 02 - 07181
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

You might also be interested in

Big Creek
Visual Materials
Big Creek - Break in pressure main at 5am (8/20/1921) [Huge section of the 1.12 inch thick steel penstock ripped like cardboard.]
photCL SCE 02 - 07182
Big Creek - Break in pressure main
Visual Materials
Big Creek - Break in pressure main - Upper end of penstock 8 collapsed [due to the sudden release of water when the penstock failed at the Powerhouse]
photCL SCE 02 - 07183
Big Creek - Break in pressure main
Visual Materials
Big Creek - Break in pressure main - Upper end of penstock 8 collapsed [due to the sudden release of water when the penstock failed at the Powerhouse]
photCL SCE 02 - 07184
Mill Creek 1, 2&3 Powerhouse - Mill Creek #1
Visual Materials
Mill Creek 1, 2&3 Powerhouse - Mill Creek #1 - Collapsed penstock caused from downstream break in pressure main.
photCL SCE 02 - 18562
Mill Creek 1, 2&3 Powerhouse - Mill Creek #1
Visual Materials
Mill Creek 1, 2&3 Powerhouse - Mill Creek #1 - Collapsed penstock caused from downstream break in pressure main.
photCL SCE 02 - 18563
Image not available
Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1, Maintenance
Visual Materials
Powerhouse 1 and penstocks, Dam 4 sluicing, switchrack, switchboards in Powerhouse 1, Unit 1 fire, bucket strain-gauge test, bucket molds, bucket repairs, lapping journals, coil replacements in stator, rebuilding Unit 4, removing rotor for repair, break in penstock at Powerhouse 1, debris and boulders that washed into the powerhouse after penstock break, and details of ripped penstock.
photCL SCE