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 314
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 … Dow Turbine. inventor. The turbine of De Laval is constructed on thesame principle as is, among the water-wheels, that ofPelton. In this form of steam-turbine the steam is ex-panded from the boiler-pressure to that of the atmosphereor, in the case of a condensing engine, to that of the con-denser,…
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