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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Early Steam Turbines

Today those of us who work with steam turbines for a living are familiar with axial-flow turbines, where steam flows through a series of rotating and stationary blades in a direction along the shaft.  Below is a cutaway of a small five stage turbine.