who invented the steam turbine ?

Answer 1

Charles Parsons patented the steam turbine in 1884 and is recognized as the inventor of the modern steam engine.

Answer 2

Indeed Charles Parsons. The British Navy dismissed his invention as inferior, so he built a turbine-propelled steamship S.S. Turbinia. He took it to the Naval Review at Spithead in 1897 and literally ran rings around the fastest and most powerful warships in the British Grand Fleet, so the Navy changed their minds.

Turbines quickly took over. The last large warships built with the old-fashioned reciprocating engines were the battleships H.M.S. Lord Nelson and H.M.S Agamemnon, launched in 1905, and the last large British merchant vessel was the R.M.S. Asturias launched by Harland and Wolff at Belfast in 1907.

In the film "Titanic", the director completely disregarded historical fact to show its engine room equipped with reciprocating engines. He could certainly have given us no such visual drama with an accurate scene of its quietly humming turbine hall.

Answer 3

A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into useful mechanical work.

It has almost completely replaced the reciprocating piston steam engine (invented by Thomas Newcomen and greatly improved by James Watt) primarily because of its greater thermal efficiency and higher power-to-weight ratio. Also, because the turbine generates rotary motion, it is particularly suited to be used to drive an electrical generator, about 86% of all electric generation in the world is by use of steam turbines. — it doesn't require a linkage mechanism to convert reciprocating to rotary motion. The steam turbine is a form of heat engine that derives much of its improvement in thermodynamic efficiency through the use of multiple stages in the expansion of the steam (as opposed to the one stage in the Watt engine), which results in a closer approach to the ideal reversible process.

Answer 4

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