ISBN: 9781156436301

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: History of Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, Conowingo Dam, Bloede's Dam, Deep Creek Dam, Cumberland Dam. Excerpt: Patapsco Electric and Manufacturing of Ellicott City brought fame to the Patapsco River corridor in 1906 when it constructed the worlds first underwater hydroelectric plant. Named Bloede's Dam Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: History of Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, Conowingo Dam, Bloede's Dam, Deep Creek Dam, Cumberland Dam. Excerpt: Patapsco Electric and Manufacturing of Ellicott City brought fame to the Patapsco River corridor in 1906 when it constructed the worlds first underwater hydroelectric plant. Named Bloede's Dam after the companys president, Victor Gustave Bloede (pronounced as Blerda ). Bloede, a German immigrant, was also the founder of The Avalon Waterworks in the same area. Bloede's dam and power generating plant was located near Gray's Mill on the Patapsco River an area now part of Patapsco Valley State Park Avalon Area. Design Victor Bloede hired electrical engineer Otto Wonder to oversee the development of this unique hydroelectric dam. The dam was 220 feet (67m ) long, 40 feet (12.1m ) wide at the base and had a drop of 26 ½ feet (8m ). It was an Amburson Hydraulic Construction Company (Boston type) reinforced concrete slab and buttress dam. It was the first known instance of a submerged hydroelectric plant where the power plant was actually housed under the spillway. It is also recognized as one of the earliest dams constructed of reinforced concrete. The dam was not only the first of its kind in design but in technology as well state of the art equipment by 1907 standards was housed within its core. The power generating plant was built with 34-inch Poole Books, , Dams-In-Maryland~~Books-Llc, 999999999, Dams In Maryland, Books Llc, 1156436303, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1156436303

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