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 616
this is easily accomplished in the shop bymeans of a balancing machine used by the builders. Steam turbines generally show higher efficiency in theuse of steam than reciprocating engines do^ and this factis due. to three leading causes. First^ it is possible withthe turbine to use highly… … Fig. 250new blading jviateeial the reason that the steam is allowed to expand to a muchlower pressure^ and into a higher vacuum. In addition tothis^ the velocity of the expanding steam is utilized in amuch higher degree in the turbine as compared with the re-ciprocating engine. Thirds mechanical…
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