The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 458
n. — The meaning of the terms impulseand reaction, as used to distinguish the manner of working of steamturbines, has been explained in a general way in § 4. The turbineelements shown at I in Figs. 309 and 310 are intended to illustrate afuller definition. The velocity diagrams at II are made a… … T T Fig. 309. — Driving by Impulse Only. FiG. 310. — Driving by Reaction Only. In Fig. 309, the half vanes are so formed that the steam leaves themin a direction perpendicular to the line of motion: then only the impulseat entrance is effective to produce driving force Ft, and the energyabstraction…
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