Talk:Lester Allan Pelton

Disneyland Pelton wheel

California Adventure at Disneyland has a "Pelton wheel" on display, with a humorous "roadside" sign near it saying that Lester Pelton got the idea for the wheel after "seeing a cow stick its nose into a stream of water" and that the division between metal cups functioned the same way the cleft in a cow's nose does. The sign also notes (incorrectly) that the wheel was patented in 1878. I know this b/c I took a picture of said display on my digital cam when going by it. 68.37.146.82 (talk) 02:04, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

0815/BOLD Rewrite Offered

0815/Bold Rewrite Offered---Please post your responses or concerns here. >>In addition to major copy-editing plus several errata repaired ---pls note these revisions: 1) >A broader use of the narrative of Source [3]---the phy6.org site, "Planetary-Gravity Assist and the Pelton Turbine"---by D.P. Stern; who explains both the technology surrounding Lester Pelton, and the science behind Pelton's discoveries and inventions. This site provides cogent narrative that is both accessible and technically sound. 2) >A key erratum> ..mis-attributes to W.F. Durand of Stanford U the quoted statement nexus; ..the rev'sd narrative maps this quote directly as it is found in the DPStern site.

3) >All About Sources: [a] Re patents> ..3 sources report 3 varying 'factoids' about the patent history of Pelton's invention; ..the rv'sd wording avoids the confusion; [b] Added this source> 'Miners Foundry' ..for its importance as the natal site for development & first manufacture of the Pelton wheel; and---as a California-landmark for a Pelton memorial & monument; [c] Source citations (see 'References') are updated or validated per the new 'Retrieved' dates. 4) >Re erratumus "Sierra Nevada Mountains" ..translates to English literally as "Mountain(s) Snowy Mountains"; ..instead, the norm of speech while I lived there was simply the Spanish adopted into the English: i.e., 'the Sierra Nevada', or 'the Sierra', (which seems to be the Wikipedia norm also); ---or, full disclosure, 'the Sierras' (with redundant plural); which IMO is still better than teaching the double mashup.--Jbeans (talk) 07:14, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

It would be useful to run down, cite or contradict the cow's-nose story. It is current in the sense that many people seem to know it, including myself, but I cannot cite a source. It should be mentioned, even to deny it. Cyranorox (talk) 01:34, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

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