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Metropolitan-Vickers Steam turbine and Generator

Metropolitan-Vickers Steam turbine and Generator

1937-1938
Radial Flow Parson's Turbine Engines

Radial Flow Parson's Turbine Engines

1894
steam turbine

steam turbine

1956
Parson's no. 2 geared turbine fitted to a launch, with two explanatory diagrams

Parson's no. 2 geared turbine fitted to a launch, with two explanatory diagrams

1897
Nuts and washers for steam turbine generator

Nuts and washers for steam turbine generator

Plaques for model

Plaques for model

circa 1907
Steam Turbine for Parsons Three-Phase Turbo-Alternator

Steam Turbine for Parsons Three-Phase Turbo-Alternator

1900
Aeolipile (Steam Turbine) by Townson & Mercer, 1886

Aeolipile (Steam Turbine) by Townson & Mercer, 1886

1886
Model (scale 1:24) shewing a 3' shaft arrangement of Parson's marine turbines.

Model of Parson's marine turbines

circa 1907
V2 Turbopump, German, 1944. The V2 motor was the first large rocket engine to use a turbopump. The pump moved almost 9,000kg of alcohol (fuel) and liquid oxygen (oxidizer) – together these make up the propellant used in the V2 – from the tanks to the combustion chamber during the burning time which lasted 50 seconds. Turbine wheels in the centre of the pump powered the impellers for the propellant. An impeller is the rotating component which increased the pressure, keeping the fuel flowing into the combustion chamber.

V2 Turbopump

1944
Diagrammatic working model of Parsons type steam turbine

Diagrammatic working model of Parsons type steam turbine

circa 1909
Marine steam turbine reduction gearing from the first geared turbine vessel, engine fitted in 1897 by Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Limited, Wallsend, c.1897, with table (see note)

Parson's no. 2 geared turbine fitted to a launch, with two explanatory diagrams

1897
Model (scale 1:24) shewing a 3' shaft arrangement of Parson's marine turbines.

Model (scale 1:24) shewing a 3' shaft arrangement of Parson's marine turbines

circa 1907
250 H.P. steam turbine with vertical shaft. Made by W.H. Allen and Sons, Bedford, about 1937. Height: 4ft, width 3ft 6". Weight approx. 1 ton

250 H.P. steam turbine with vertical shaft. Made by W.H. Allen and Sons

1937