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Pelton wheel

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Pelton wheel

Summary

Pelton wheel ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (212 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Pelton wheel is credited with the discovery of Lester Allan Pelton[2].
  • Pelton wheel's image is recorded as Peltonturbine-25MW-Reisseck-Speicherstufe.jpg[3].
  • Lester Allan Pelton is named after Pelton wheel[4].
  • Pelton wheel's GND ID is recorded as 4304689-7[5].
  • Pelton wheel's subclass of is recorded as water turbine[6].
  • Pelton wheel's subclass of is recorded as Q2646094[7].
  • Pelton wheel's Commons category is recorded as Pelton wheels[8].
  • Pelton wheel's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 55855[9].
  • Pelton wheel's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1878-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Pelton wheel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/067pr[11].
  • Pelton wheel's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph162644[12].
  • Pelton wheel's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pelton wheels[13].
  • Pelton wheel's Commons gallery is recorded as Pelton-Turbine[14].
  • Pelton wheel's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 621.24[15].
  • Pelton wheel's PSH ID is recorded as 10955[16].
  • Pelton wheel's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as generator:type=pelton_turbine[17].
  • Pelton wheel's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[18].
  • Pelton wheel's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/Pelton-turbine[19].
  • Pelton wheel's NE.se ID is recorded as pelton-turbin[20].
  • Pelton wheel's Quora topic ID is recorded as Pelton-Wheel[21].
  • Pelton wheel's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as peltonturbin[22].
  • Pelton wheel's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 016645[23].
  • Pelton wheel's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["HistoricalEvent", "PeltonWheelInvented"][24].
  • Pelton wheel's ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID is recorded as pelton-impulse-water-wheel[25].
  • Pelton wheel's Fandom article ID is recorded as engineering:Pelton_wheel[26].

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Works and Contributions

Pelton wheel is credited with the discovery of Lester Allan Pelton[2].

Why It Matters

Pelton wheel ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (212 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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