People · researcher
Lester Pelton
1829–1908 · Engineering
- Lifespan
- 1829–1908
- Field
- Engineering
- Known For
- The split-bucket impulse wheel of 1878, from watching a misaligned water wheel run faster; still the turbine for high-head hydro.
- Nationality
- American
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