Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. (1905)
Swingle, C. F. [from old catalog], Horstmann, Henry Charles, 1858- [from old catalog], Tousley, Victor Hugo, 1875- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co. · leaf 415
gain. The fact that the steam is used in but a single stageor set of buckets and then allowed to pass into the 404 ENGINEERING exhaust chamber might appear at first thought to be agreat loss of kinetic energy, but, as has been previouslystated, the static energy in the steam as it enters thenozzles… … L23 FIGURE 150. pressure — practically exhaust pressure — impingingagainst the buckets of the turbine wheel and thuscausing it to revolve. Efficiency tests of the De Laval turbine show a higheconomy in steam consumption, as, for instance, a testmade by Messrs. Dean and Main of Boston, Mass, ona 300…
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