Lester Allan Pelton (1829 to 1908) was an American inventor who contributed to the development of hydropower and hydroelectricity in the American West and around the world. Born in a log cabin in Erie County, Ohio, he went to California in the 1850 gold rush, failed as a miner, and made his living as a fisherman, wood-miller, carpenter and later millwright at Camptonville in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Studying the mining equipment of the Mother Lode country, he improved on the turbine water wheel and in the late 1870s invented the Pelton water wheel, then the most efficient design of impulse water turbine, in which a jet of water strikes a split double cup. He patented the wheel and its double cup runner and in 1888 formed the Pelton Water Wheel Company in San Francisco. He received the Elliott Cresson Medal and is an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Recognized as one of the fathers of hydroelectric power, he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal during his lifetime
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In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine.
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In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine.
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