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 659
t appear at first thought to be a great lossof kinetic energy, but, as has been previously stated, thestatic energy in the steam as it enters the nozzles is con- 646 Steam Engineering verted into kinetic energy by its passage through the diver-gent nozzles^ and the result is a greatly increased… … Fig. 275 Efficiency tests of the De Laval turbine show a high econ-omy in steam consumption^ as for instance^ a test made byMessrs. Dean and Main of Boston^ Mass.^ on a 300 H. P.turbine, using saturated steam at about 200 lbs. pressureper sq. in. and developing 333 Brake H. P., showed a…
