A STEAM TURBINE.

Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4841, 12 May 1890, Page 3

A STEAM TURBINE.

An illustrated article m ono of tho numbers of tho Engineer rcciurcd by tlio last mail describes & rcmiukablo little «ti>am motor. It Is a compound turbino winch has been applied to driving un elevator, a puni'pj and n 13 arclight dynamo. With n stenm presiuro of 7"J'b» m tho boiler, it had dcrolopu'i 10 horjo power, - nnd the wholo motor, with caring and bcdplato, moasures only Hindu's by S)J, and woiglio but 081 bs ! fitb.im turbines, to bo cflioiont and economical must rcvolvo at torriflo Bpoeds. Tho theoretically proper speed for this parliculur engine, m which tho turbino wheels aro 5J inclios m diameter.- in 25,000 rovolutlone per minute ; and whon working an olovntor it wan run at 21,000. At this mil) tho rim velocity Mould bp betvtpon 00 and 70 miles por minulo. For tho d^nirao reducing gear hurt to bo omplored, and this took up inuoh more room thin tlio motor The . inventor,, nn AmoHorcn engineer nnmnd 3. H. Dow, nleo made, to bo' worked by tlio turbino, a rotary pump which lmpt n tlireo msb ditcharge pipe running full, whilst its working parts, wheel and epindld together, only weighod 21b 3oz. Mr Dow's turbine gets six impulses from the stonin, and its working oDlcionny allows Unit thero U nut tuuch power wt\Btcd by tho rscapo pipo. A curious cffoc,t of tlio high spaed at which tho turbino runs, is that tho whool, though email — OUnolioß m diaraotor—whcli m full nmni takes as much stoppiog at a 1000-lb fly-wheel runnipg 15Q roroluliona per minute. An Hnglisli journalist, that one of his sans, evjncpti a , natural ti^lpqt f° r cookory, his httfi'lllm eduosfod for lliat walk of lifo, m wbjch ha will bo ablo to coinmnnd an in-

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