Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Steam Turbine
The author has endeavoured in this book to describe, not only the principal parts of the leading types of steam turbine, but also the small details which, in the case of this motor, have such a preponderating in?uence in determining success or failure. The theory of the action of the steam turbine is also treated of, and the subject is likewise dealt with historically.
Comparisons have necessarily been made with the hydraulic turbine and with the reciprocating engine; but, with a view to extending the usefulness of the book, the author has assumed on the part of the reader no prior knowledge of the hydraulic turbine, and only an elementary knowledge of the reciprocating engine and of the laws of thermo-dynamics.
With a like object in view the author has tried to make the mathematical reasoning as simple as possible.
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