Book ID: CBB000017002

An almost unknown great man: Charles Parsons and the significance of the patents of 1884 (1984)

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Clarke, J. F. (Author)


Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic


Publication Date: 1984
Physical Details: 97 pp.; illus.; notes

Description Parsons invented the multistage reaction steam turbine in 1884.


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Authors & Contributors
Montava Gadea, Maria
Pertwee, Nicholas
Jun, Suzuki
Russell, Ben
Williams, Nathaniel
Zhang, Z. John
Journals
Transactions - Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology
Technology and Culture
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific American
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Publishers
Renaissance Books
VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften
University of Chicago Press
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology
Reaktion Books
Bloomsbury Press
Concepts
Steam engines; steam turbines
Technology
Industrial revolution
Industrialization
Manufacturing
Engineering
People
Parsons, Charles Algernon
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Senarens, Luis Philip
Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth
Garrett Putnam Serviss
Ellis, Edward Sylvester (1840-1916)
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Birmingham (England)
England
New England (U.S.)
Scotland
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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