Abstract
THE early part of this book is taken up with his torical notes and some explanations of the principles involved in the working of turbines. This is fol lowed by three chapters on water-wheels, turbine pumps, and water turbines. The remainder of the book deals with steam turbines. For the most part the book is descriptive, and the simple language employed, together with the many excellent drawings, will render the volume of interest to the general reader. The author has had considerable experience in the working of turbines, and his treatise on “Marine Engineering” is well known. It is therefore rather surprising to find on p. 21, in reference to a rotating wheel, that “every particle of the wheel also tends to fly away from the axis in a radial direction, due to centrifugal action or force.” This statement is somewhat misleading. There are one or two misprints, and the accepted notation for British thermal unit is B.Th.U., not b.t.u.
Turbines.
A. E.
Tompkins
By. Third edition, entirely revised. Pp. viii + 180. (London: S.P.C.K.; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1921.) 8s. net.
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Turbines . Nature 109, 171 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109171d0
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