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Description: Cross-section of a turbine at Hales Bar Dam, which was located on the Tennessee River in the southeastern United States. The dam, built by the Chattanooga and Tennessee River Power Company in 1913, originally housed eight of these turbines.
Title: Hales-bar-turbine-tva1
Credit: Tennessee Valley Authority, The Nickajack Project: A Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, Initial Operations, and Costs, Technical Report No. 16 (Knoxville, Tenn.: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1972), p. 18
Author: Tennessee Valley Authority
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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