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    The Holyoke Testing Flume was a hydraulic testing laboratory and apparatus in Holyoke, Massachusetts, operated by the Holyoke Water Power Company from...
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    local YMCA chapter by William G. Morgan in 1895. While managing the Holyoke Testing Flume in the 1880s, hydraulic engineer Clemens Herschel invented the Venturi...
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    would largely become standardized with the establishment of the Holyoke Testing Flume, described as the first modern hydraulic laboratory in the United...
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  • history. 1932 – The Holyoke Testing Flume ceases testing and is gradually disassembled after 62 years and 3,176 efficiency tests of water turbines.: 100 ...
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    Clemens Herschel (category People from Holyoke, Massachusetts)
    developed this device while serving as director of the Holyoke Testing Flume, a turbine testing facility which he would redesign, which became the first...
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    rides from the Holyoke Heritage State Park to Westfield, as well as an annual Santa Train. Massachusetts portal Holyoke Testing Flume "Holyoke Heritage State...
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    The Holyoke Testing Flume as it appeared in 1895; designed by Clemens Herschel, this facility would lead to the development of the McCormick-Holyoke Turbine...
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    Falls at South Hadley. The dam, along with the Canal System and its Testing Flume, is recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as a...
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    turbines at its testing flume, the German engineering community kept abreast with its research and developments such as the "Holyoke Hercules" turbine...
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    collection area, they are nudged into a hopper that carries them into a flume that empties into the river above the barrier. On the Connecticut River...
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