Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 597
in the second century before Christ. Hero de-scribes a machine called an Aeolipile or ^*^Ball of Aeolus/^illustrated in Fig. 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. Brancas engine consistedof a boiler A, Fig. 237, from which…
