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IT is related that when the famous little Turbinia was taken to France during the Paris Exhibition of 1900, Augustin Normand, the eminent naval constructor of Havre, after meeting Parsons, remarked of him “II ne pense qu' a' la turbine; il y pense sans cesse”.
Charles Parsons: his Life and Work.
By Rollo Appleyard. Pp. xiii + 334 + 17 plates. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1933.) 15s. net.
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Charles Parsons: his Life and Work. Nature 131, 891–892 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131891a0
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