Pelton

Pelton

Pelton may refer to:

;Places
* Pelton, County Durham, England
* Pelton, New South Wales, Australia;People
* Lester Allan Pelton, inventor of the
** Pelton wheel

* Robert Young Pelton, an adventure journalist
* Joe Pelton, an American poker player
* Jack J. Pelton, CEO of Cessna Aircraft Company


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  • Pelton — Lester Allan Pelton (* 5. September 1829 in Vermilion Township, Erie County, Ohio; † 14. März 1908 beerdigt in Vermilion Ohio) war ein amerikanischer Erfinder. Während des Goldrausches in Kalifornien arbeitete er als Zimmermann, Monteur und… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • Pelton, County Durham — Pelton is a village in Chester le Street, County Durham, in England. It is located to the northwest of Chester le Street. The village of West Pelton is located some distance to the west; separated from it by a few villages and closer to Stanley… …   Wikipedia

  • Pelton-Turbine —   [ peltn ], Becherturbine, von dem amerikanischen Ingenieur Lester Allen Pelton (* 1829, ✝ 1908) 1880 erfundene Freistrahlturbine mit becherartigen Schaufeln (Wasserturbine) …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Pelton wheel — Pel ton wheel (Mech.) A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity. [Webster 1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Pelton wheel — The Pelton wheel is among the most efficient types of water turbines. It was invented by Lester Allan Pelton (1829 1908) in the 1870s, and is an impulse machine, meaning that it uses the principle of Newton s second law to extract energy from a… …   Wikipedia

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