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Model of the Parsons single-reduction geared turbine machinery

Model of the Parsons single-reduction geared turbine machinery

1939-1947
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
Original Vickers Marine Gas Turbine

Original Vickers Marine Gas Turbine

1947
Specimen of turbine blade from RMS 'Lusitania'

Specimen of turbine blade from RMS 'Lusitania'

1905-1907
Model of Turbine Steamer 'Virginian'

Model of Turbine Steamer 'Virginian'

1904-1933
Fourneyron type, outward flow turbine

Fourneyron type, outward flow turbine

Model of Cordes and Locke's proposed marine steam turbine

Model of Cordes and Locke's proposed marine steam turbine

1846
Ferranti Welded Blade Samples

Ferranti Welded Blade Samples

1913
Segment of 'end-tightened' turbine cylinder blading with double shrouding

Segment of 'end-tightened' turbine cylinder blading with double shrouding

Gas turbine from APT-E

Gas turbine from APT-E

1972
Gas turbine from APT-E

Gas turbine from APT-E

1972
Turbine spindle Bronze Ring, plus turbine casing Bronze Ring in 2-halves

Turbine spindle Bronze Ring, plus turbine casing Bronze Ring in 2-halves

Ferranti Welded Turbine Blades

Ferranti Welded Turbine Blades

1913
Metal component associated with the 100 K.W. Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator

Metal component associated with the 100 K.W. Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator

1891
Specimen showing Brown-Curtis turbine blades as fitted to H.P. casings

Specimen showing Brown-Curtis turbine blades as fitted to H.P. casings

1933
Partly sectioned 100 K.W. Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator, built by C. A. Parsons and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1892 for the Cambridge Electric Supply Company.

100 K.W. Parsons' Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator, partly sectioned

1892
De Laval's patent steam turbine, 5 bhp and accessories

De Laval's patent steam turbine

1889-1896
Working model of Parson's doubel reduction geared turbine machinery with two driving shaft, by Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co. Ltd., Wallsend, 1927-1929

Working model of Parsons Double, reduction geared turbines

1927-1929
Hand-cranked model, scale 1:12, of the marine type turbine double reduction gears, reducing from 3000 to 70 RPM, with Michell thrust bearing, as fitted to the SS ' America' (c.1919), by the Power Plant Company Ltd., West Drayton, Middlesex, England, 1919-1922

Model of marine type turbine double reduction gears with Michell thrust bearing

1919-1922
Sectional model, scale 1:5, of a steam turbine for a torpedo-boat destroyer, patented by Dr. H. Zoelly in 1899, in glass case with key (see note), by Escher Wyss and Co Engineers. Zurich, c.1910

Model of a Zoelly Marine Turbine and Brass Plaque.

1910-1914
Parsons compound non-condensing steam turbine driving a 4 KW. 65V. D.C. generator; built in 1887 by Clarke, Chapman, Parsons & Co.

Parsons compound non-condensing steam turbine

1887
Water Turbine from Mill House Farm.

Water turbine

circa 1870
Rotating element of Richardsons Westgarth-Brown Boveri exhaust gas turbine driven pressure charger, with polished wooden baseboard, two wooden supports and engraved white plastic label

Rotating element of Richardsons Westgarth-Brown Boveri exhaust gas turbine driven pressure charger

Bronze Ring for turbine spindle, 1884, with straight blades cut on the edge

Bronze Ring for turbine spindle

L.P.Turbine set ex Clyde steamer "Queen Mary"

L.P.Turbine set ex Clyde steamer "Queen Mary"

Sectional model in wood, scale 1:32, of engine room and single geared turbine machinery designed for the proposed battle cruiser H.M.S. 'Howe', (1918), showing adjacent hull framing, unsigned, British, 1918-1931

Model of engine room and geared turbine machinery of proposed battle cruiser H.M.S. 'Howe'

1918-1931
100 K.W. Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator and metal component, by C. A. Parsons and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, 1891

100 K.W. Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator

1891
Sectional model, scale 1:48, showing the portside of the turbine installation of the TS 'Queen Elizabeth' (1938), each section with an explanatory label, by John Brown and Co. Ltd., Scotland, 1938-1947

Model of turbine machinery in T.S. 'Queen Elizabeth'

1938-1947
Sectioned model, scale 1:8, of the marine gas turbine fitted in the M.S. 'Auris', (c. 1951), the first merchant ship to be fitted by gas-turbine propulsion, by British Thomson-Houston Company Limited, with glazed case on table stand (see note).

Sectioned model of the Gas Turbine fitted in the M.S. 'Auris'

1951-1953