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 647
eciprocatingengine, a condition, however, which for obvious reasonshas never yet been attained in practice with the reciprocat-ing engine. But with the divergent nozzle the conditionsare different. Eeferring to Fig. 267, a continuous volume of steamat maximum pressure is entering the nozzle at E,… … Fig. 267de laval nozzle principles of the De Laval expanding nozzle are in factmore or less prominent in all steam turbines. The facilitiesfor converting heat into work are increased by its use, and De Laval Steam Turbine 635 the losses by radiation and cooling influences are greatlylessened. The…
