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 616
but 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 material 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. Third, mechanical…
