A compound turbine is a steam turbine in which there are two casings, a high-pressure casing and a low-pressure casing, operating in concert to extract work from a single source of steam.

The spectacular unauthorized demonstration of the turbine powered Turbinia at the 1897 Spithead Navy Review, which, significantly, was of torpedo boat size, prompted the Royal Navy to order a prototype turbine powered destroyer, HMS Viper of 1899.

In 1884 Sir Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine which today generates about 80 percent of the electric power in the world using a variety of heat sources.

landfill or wastewater treatment plant, with a reciprocating engine or a microturbine, which is a small gas turbine.

In an internal combustion engine the expansion of the high temperature and high pressure gases, which are produced by the combustion, directly applies force to components of the engine, such as the pistons or turbine blades or a nozzle, and by moving it over a distance, generates useful mechanical energy.

There are rotating wind socks which spin like a turbine.

In the 1870s, deriving from uses in the California mining industry, Lester Allan Pelton developed the high efficiency Pelton wheel impulse turbine, which utilized hydropower from the high head streams characteristic of the mountainous California interior.

The air after being compressed in the compressor is heated by burning fuel in it, this heats and expands the air, and this extra energy is tapped by the turbine, which in turn powers the compressor closing the cycle and powering the shaft.

SMS Lübeck was the first German cruiser to be fitted with turbine engines, which were also trialled in torpedo boat S-125.

The turbine ( similar to a turboshaft engine ) drives an output shaft, which drives the alternator via a system of gears.

The steam turbine is a form of heat engine that derives much of its improvement in thermodynamic efficiency through the use of multiple stages in the expansion of the steam, which results in a closer approach to the ideal reversible process.

An ideal steam turbine is considered to be an isentropic process, or constant entropy process, in which the entropy of the steam entering the turbine is equal to the entropy of the steam leaving the turbine.

A turbine is a turbomachine with at least one moving part called a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached.

The word " turbine " was coined in 1822 by the French mining engineer Claude Burdin from the Latin turbo, or vortex, in a memoir, " Des turbines hydrauliques ou machines rotatoires à grande vitesse ", which he submitted to the Académie royale des sciences in Paris.

They were once used to directly drive mechanical devices such as ships ' propellers ( for example the Turbinia, the first turbine-powered steam launch ,) but most such applications now use reduction gears or an intermediate electrical step, where the turbine is used to generate electricity, which then powers an electric motor connected to the mechanical load.

Many turbine rotor blades have shrouding at the top, which interlocks with that of adjacent blades, to increase damping and thereby reduce blade flutter.

One of Tesla ’ s desires for implementation of this turbine was for geothermal power, which was described in " Our Future Motive Power ".

The Tesla turbine has the trait of being in an installation normally working with a mixture of steam and products of combustion and in which the exhaust heat is used to provide steam which is supplied to the turbine, providing a valve governing the supply of such last mentioned steam so that the pressures and temperatures can be adjusted to the optimum working conditions.

Recent studies by Weston and Stack had indicated that a turbine aerator could be added to an oxidation pond to increase the rate of oxygen transfer.

By 1910 the turbine had been widely adopted by all navies for their faster ships.

Technological advances had moved the open water wheel into an enclosed turbine.

Alan Arnold Griffith had published a paper on turbine design in 1926.

The ash also entered streams and was washed into the penstocks and turbines of the Rangipo underground HEP station causing rapid corrosion on the turbine blades which had to be rebuilt.

The town of Murdochville, at about above sea level, has had a varied history, and is now home to several wind turbine farms which together have one of the largest wind-generating capacities in the world.

Similar to many modern helicopters of today it had twin turbine engines mounted on the fuselage.

The facility had five steam generators and one combustion turbine.

The Elliott Company, owned by the Carrier Corporation from 1957 until 1979 and by United Technologies Corporation until a 1987 buyout that returned the company to a privately-owned status, only to become an Ebara Corporation subsidiary in 2000, has always had a solid reputation in the dynamo, turbine, and large rotating equipment industry.

It was restored in 1976, when the bevel gears had to be replaced, but all other machinery and the external turbine are intact.

Trials indicated that twin propulsion was no better than the turbine engine which had been in development since 1968 at KB-3 of the Kirov Plant ( LKZ ) and at WNII Trans Masz.

Not only was the train designed to tilt but it was also articulated and had hydrokinetic ( Water turbine ) brakes.

Although Hill had concentrated on F1 he also maintained a presence in sports car racing throughout his career ( including two runs in the Rover-BRM gas turbine car at Le Mans ).

* On June 28, 1965, Pan Am Flight 843, a Boeing 707 had its engine turbine disintegrate, which took out the engine and one third of the wing was lost after taking off from San Francisco.

Mercury turbine interrupters had a centrifugal impeller which threw liquid mercury on metal contacts.

In 1954 Chyrsler started its decade long unsuccessful attempt to develop and market a viable car powered by turbine engine when it installed an experimental turbine they had developed specifically for vehicles in a Plymouth.

At the time Holyoke, Massachusetts had a natural gas-powered auxiliary Pratt & Whitney gas turbine as well as a municipal power plant.

Naval interest had waned by 1958 in favour of the pure gas turbine, despite its heavier fuel consumption, and no further development was carried out.

The M1 had a conventional, but welded steel turret, suspension, and gun, and was innovative in incorporating advanced armor materials and the use of a gas turbine engine.

Jet turbine engines in the 1950s and 1960s demonstrated that they had much higher thrust and reliability than any then-available piston engines.

Rolls-Royce turbine engines had traditionally borne numeric designations during development and then were assigned the name of a British river on delivery.

The best steam turbine at the time, invented by Gustaf de Laval, was an impulse design that subjected the mechanism to huge centrifugal forces and so had limited output due to the weakness of the materials available.

In 1969, Team Lotus raced cars in the Indy 500 and two years later in Formula 1 with the Lotus 56, that had both turbine engines and 4WD, as well as the 4WD-Lotus 63 that had the standard 3-litre V8 Ford Cosworth engine.