Steam turbines; a practical and theoretical treatise for engineers and students, including a discussion of the gas turbine . Fig. 131a. Three Sizes of Small Westinghouse Impulse Turbines. The advantages of this construction are that it is essentiallysimpler than the De Laval in the ehmination of speed-reductiongears, and requires a very much smaller number of bladesthan the Curtis type. 246 THE STEAM TURBINE. COMMERCIAL TYPES 247 RATEAU TURBINES. Professor Rateau of Paris is also a pioneer in the developmentof a well-known type of steam turbine. His first experimentswere made with a turbine ha
Steam turbines; a practical and theoretical treatise for engineers and students, including a discussion of the gas turbine . Fig. 131a. Three Sizes of Small Westinghouse Impulse Turbines. The advantages of this construction are that it is essentiallysimpler than the De Laval in the ehmination of speed-reductiongears, and requires a very much smaller number of bladesthan the Curtis type. 246 THE STEAM TURBINE. COMMERCIAL TYPES 247 RATEAU TURBINES. Professor Rateau of Paris is also a pioneer in the developmentof a well-known type of steam turbine. His first experimentswere made with a turbine having a single impulse wheel; but hesoon abandoned this type in favor of a multiple wheel construc-
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