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 597
n the second century before Christ. Hero de-scribes a machine called an Aeolipile or ^^Ball of Aeolus/^,illustrated in Pig. 236. B is the boiler under which afire was made. G is a hollow metallic globe that revolvedon trunnions C and D^ one of which terminated in a pivotat E^ while the other was… … Fig. 237 globe to revolve. This was the first steam turbine, andit worked on the reaction principle. Many centuries later, in the year A. D. 1629, Branca,an Italian, described an engine which marks a change inthe method of using the steam. Branca^s engine consistedof a boiler A, Fig. 237, from…
