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The Holyoke Testing Flume was a hydraulic testing laboratory and apparatus operated by the Holyoke Water Power Company from 1870 to 1932, used to test water turbines, completing 3,176 tests of efficiency during its use.[3]: 100 It was described by Robert E. Horton in court testimony as the only facility of its kind in the 19th and early 20th century, which made it possible for the standardization of American turbine designs.[4] Indeed Clemens Herschel, who managed the facility in the 1880s and designed its second experimental setup later described it in Congressional testimony as the "first modern hydraulic laboratory" in the United States and the world. It was through Herschel's need to determine the water power consumption of different mills from this testing system that he would invent the Venturi meter, the first accurate means of measuring large-scale flows, which still retains widespread use in modern technology today.[5] https://uh.edu/engines/epi2041.htm
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![]() The testing flume as seen from Race Street, circa 1895 | |
Established | 1870; 154 years ago (1870) |
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Research type | Industrial |
Field of research | Hydraulic engineering |
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Address | 102 Cabot Street |
Location | Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S. 42.199580°N 72.609826°W / 42.199580; -72.609826 |
Campus | Holyoke Canal System |
Affiliations | Holyoke Water Power Company |
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Venturi meter experiments http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2015/pres2015-0705-03.pdf