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Updated: June 13, 2025
In the other palace it appeared that the great American scrapping process was even yet far from complete. At first sight this other seemed to resemble the former one, but I was soon instructed that the former one was as naught to this one, for here the turbine the "strong, silent man" among engines was replacing the racket of cylinder and crank.
Two hours later through his half-dreams he caught the faint sound for which he had been listening. At first he was not sure. It might be the turbine alternator of the Ring running by its own inertia for some time after the discharge had ceased. But no, it was growing louder momentarily, and appeared to come from high up in the air.
That is the firm which represents the syndicate of wealthy men who are trying to get my turbine motor patents away from me. Tom, we must be on our guard! They will wage a fierce fight against me, for they have sunk many thousands of dollars in a worthless machine, and are desperate." "We'll fight 'em!" cried Tom. "You and I, dad!
The object of this governor being automatically to shut off all steam from the turbine, should the latter through any cause rise above the normal speed, it is often set to operate at about 12 to 15 per cent. above the normal. Thus, a turbine revolving at about 3000 revolutions per minute would be closed down at, say, 3500, which would be within the limit of "safe" speed.
In the case of turbine water-wheels, where perhaps 970 cubic feet of water are utilised by means of a mechanism not larger than a hat, we see another illustration of it, with this difference, that water takes the place of wind as the motive power.
Theoretical considerations would lead the author to imagine that for a piston machine low pressures are preferable. In conclusion, the following table gives the efficiencies of a Girard turbine, constructed by Messrs. Escher Wyss & Co., of Zurich, and of a Schmid machine, as measured by Professor Fliegnor, in 1871: ESCHER WYSS & CO'S TURBINE. Effective Head of Water.
The question of relief valves in turbine installations is an important one, and it seems desirable at this point to draw attention to another necessary relief valve and its function, namely the turbine atmospheric valve.
The lever, the cam, the eccentric, the crank, the piston, the turbine, the boiler with the vapour imprisoned in it devices which it has taxed the brains of the greatest men to elaborate and to co-ordinate were all latent in nature before these men made them actual; and when once such devices are actualised it is nature that makes them go.
So-called practical writers, as a rule, fail to give much useful information, and their task seems rather in praise of one description of turbine above another.
I escaped last May, and came to New York." "What have you been doing since you arrived here?" "I was so fortunate as to become mate on the turbine yacht 'The Walrus, owned by Mr. Stockwell." "Oh, that's the multi-millionaire whose bank failed a month ago?" "Yes, Madam." "But does he still keep a yacht?" "No, Madam.
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