Pelton wheel

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Pelton wheel [ˈpɛltən]

(Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a type of impulse turbine in which specially shaped buckets mounted on the perimeter of a wheel are struck by a fast-flowing water jet

[named after L. A. Pelton (1829-1908), US engineer who invented it]

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