Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants (1899)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 313
conjunction with the guide-blades, on cc, as iswell shown in the next figure. Steam entering from ee must pass through the balance-disk, k, on the shaft, the spaces on either side and the pas-sages nwi to reach the turbine-disk. This keeps the sleeveand the three disks automatically adjusted… … of the latter without affecting the action of the turbine.The latest development of the steam-turbine in modern ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 281 work is a modification of the machine of Branca of 1629,of which an illustration is given, page 282, as drawn by the
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