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Updated: May 8, 2025
There is nothing picturesque about the steel-tube lungs of the boilers used by Parsons in the Turbina and the later boats built by him, and plain steel or copper pipes convey the steam to the whirling blades of the enclosed turbine wheels, but enormous power has been generated and marvellous speed gained.
As the engines of the Arrow are but perfected copies of the engine that drove the Clermont, so the power of the Turbina is derived from steam-motors that work on the same principle as the engine built by Branca in 1629, and his steam-turbine following the same old, old, ages old idea of the moss-covered, splashing, tireless water-wheel.
The little craft seemed to disappear in the white smother of her wake, and those who watched the speed trial marvelled at the railroad speed she made. The Turbina for that was the little record-breaker's name was propelled by a new kind of engine, and her speed was all the more remarkable on that account.
There was no jar, no shock, no thumping of cylinders and pounding of rapidly revolving cranks; the motion of the engine was rotary, and the propeller shafts, spinning at 2,000 revolutions per minute, made no more vibration than a windmill whirling in the breeze. To stop the Turbina was an easy matter; Mr. Parsons had only to turn off the steam.
The Turbina, speeding like an express train, glided like a ghost over the water; the smoke poured from her stack and the cleft wave foamed at her prow, but there was little else to remind her inventor that 2,300 horse-power was being expended to drive her.
C.A. Parsons, the inventor of the engine, worked out the idea that inventors have been studying for a long time since 1629, in fact that is, the rotary principle, or the rolling movement without the up-and-down driving mechanism of the piston. The Turbina was driven by a number of steam-turbines that worked a good deal like the water-turbines that use the power of Niagara.
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