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Metropolitan-Vickers Steam turbine and Generator

Motive Power

1937-1938

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

Marine Engines

1933

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

Marine Engines

1897

100 K.W. Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator, by C. A. Parsons and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, 1891. Partly sectioned; (Radial flow, for the Cambridge Electric Supply Company installed in 1892)

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

Motive Power

1891

Model of Cordes and Locke's proposed marine steam turbine

Marine Engines

1846

Original Vickers Marine Gas Turbine

Marine Engines

1947

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

Motive Power

1891

Specimen of turbine blade from RMS 'Lusitania'

Marine Engines

1905-1907

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'

Marine Engines

1951-1953

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

Marine Engines

1910-1914

Ferranti NS welded blade samples,1913.

Ferranti Welded Blade Samples

Electricity Supply

1913

Group of 4 Ferranti Ltd. NS welded turbine blade, 1913.

Ferranti Welded Turbine Blades

Electricity Supply

1913

Turbine, British Rail, APT-E, 1972.

gas turbine from apt-e

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1972

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'

Marine Engines

1918-1931