Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 596
Fig. 235four westinghouse-parsons steam turbines The Steam Turhine 583 reciprocating engine^ the engineer in charge of a turbineplant should be familiar with the interior construction ofthe machines under his charge^, and he should know whatto do^ and what to avoid in order to keep them in… … Fig. 236 The steam turbine in principle^ and even in type is notnew^ being in fact the first heat motor of which we haveany record in steam engineering. One of the earliest descriptions of a device for convert-ing the power of steam into work was recorded by Hero,a learned writer who flourished in…
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