The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01
A Revolution in Mechanics.

Chicago Inter OCEAN,
1t is probable says the American
last great reciprocaung englne-1riyen
power plant has been ordered. Hereafter
the steam turbine Will be the prime mover
of the new installations
The average man has heard ot the tur-
bine, and his idea of il is that IL may
possibly become the steam engine of the
future. As matter of fact, the turbine
is emphatiCaIly the engine Of The ores
ent time Already its use is world wide
II IS working in the De Beers diamond
mines in Africa 1t is driving passenger
vessels across the English charn"'. The
two new twenty-five-knot Cunarcers are
to be turbine driven IT, Chicago the Com
monweaIth Electric company has the larS-
! est steam turbine plant in the world, OK
$4,000 horsepower.
What is a steam turbine Technically
~ Is - spindle or motor htJed WITH grad
uatea rings or projecting DiaucS, WHlCu,
under the impact OF steam. cause the
spindle TO revOiVe within a Cl0se-iitting
cylinder of stator. To use a familiar H.
/ lustratiou, it is like an air fan driven
! round by the application of steam To the
| blades
! While the application or the turbines
{ seems to be hmitlcsS i'm posSi5ilItN- their
{ special field of service is IN motive POWER
/ generators Whether alloaJ or aS4oIt- bul
when that is said practically all Is said,
! for We do nearly everything by electricity
/ except the driving of steam vessels Even
! the steam railroads are accepting the
newer force. A generation hence says
/ the Review. the steam locomotive may
] be as much rarity as the horse car
! now is in large cities
/ This tremendous revolution in mechan-
] les means that twenty years of practical
/ experience behind the turbine - TO sup
/ plant 100 years of experience behind all
! other forms of steam engine practice
! The principles Of the turbine are as old
. as the hills. Hero Of Alexandra described
a reaction turbine as Tar PACK as 10
4. c.. and Giovanni Branca OF Italy in
vented the impact turbine in l629-buC
its commercial Importance has become
imperative only within The last half
Most new things for mechanics come
when we are ready for them Twenty
five years ago we would not nave been
ready for the steam turbine. lt Is cleo
I Tricity that has forced its developments
electricity that has furnished the means
for its apDliCa ton With Il turbine it is
possible TO obtain from an electrical gem
orator an amount of energy heretofore
I given only by a machine many tunes it's
size Hence the supplanung of the pis-
ton by the rotating spindle.
The turbine has many other adVanta-
gcS over the familiar rcciprOcaung en-
gine. There is nothing TO wear 1t OUT
time in installation no such expensive
I foundations are required as there Is no
thrust" vibration. they work with
either a constant load or with sudden va
TiatfOns and take care Of themselves
The most significant fact about the tur-
bine is that the greatest engine builders
in the world. whose rcciproVattng engines
are everywhere regarded as among the
gone into the manufacture at Milwaukee,
of the turbine on immense scale Noc
only this. but the same company. for the
same reason. also enters the electrical
field
The lesson is obvious. The builder or
steam turbines must build electric gen
orators henceforth the turbine and the
dynamo are practically inseparable-