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Steam Turbines

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THIS book was first published in 1908; the additions made in the present edition have been mainly in the line of new applications. The book opens with some historical descriptions, followed by a brief section dealing with the elementary theory of heat, including explanations of entropy diagrams. The following chapters take up the design of nozzles and blades, and descriptions of commercial types of turbines.

Steam Turbines.

By J. A. Moyer. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xi + 468. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1917.) Price 16s. 6d. net.

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Steam Turbines . Nature 100, 43–44 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100043a0

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