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A pioneering horizontal, six-nozzle Pelton turbine developed by Voith Hydro at the 326-GWh Gerlos 1 pumped storage facility in the Ziller Valley, Austria, is setting new benchmarks for the ...

The North Star Mining Museum, a part of the Nevada County Historical Society, has acquired a new collection of Pelton water wheels from the estate of Dr. Robert Kraft, a retired pathologist and ...

LET’S BEGIN WITH the stamp mill in Photo (A) from Sept. 16. It is, as almost all of you told us, located in the North Star Mining Museum and Pelton wheel exhibit, at the big intersection of Mill ...

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