Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise .. (1916)
Swingle, Calvin F. (Calvin Franklin), b. 1846 · Chicago, F.J. Drake & company · leaf 597
kOTfcl … 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. Brancas engine consistedof a boiler A, Fig. 237, from which…
