| Show TURBINE NOT A IDEA was known to the Chal dees some 2700 years ago the turbine ot which we bear and expect so much in these days Is by no means an idea new in mechanics twenty seven hundred years ago in the little nation of the Chal dees ad joining armenia the water turbine was 1 and built and used in milling it was then called the shell wheel the wheel was used in a horizontal position no effort being made to secure the greatest value of the water pressure the wheel was connected to a vertical shaft which turned the stone and ground the grain into a coarse flour near the city of van believed to have been built 2 years there still remain canals in a good state of preservation one of them sixty miles long is now used tor irrigation and power at one time centuries agone there were forty mills on this canal and to day the remains of these ancient institutions may be seen flour mills driven by these simple turbines of the same type as was used there 2 ears ago are still in operation the deutcher mueller berlin says these turbines were brought to the notice of the modern world and quite generally adopted in europe from 1750 to 1830 these Chal dees are not to be confounded with the Chal deans of |
