Branca Turbine Model
date: label: date made
content: ca 1629
name: label: maker
content: Smithsonian Institution
notes: label: Description
content: Giovanni Branca, a chemist of Loretto, Italy, suggested a steam engine in which a jet of steam issuing from a nozzle was directed against the blades of a paddle wheel. This is the earliest suggestion of an impulse turbine.
label: Description
content: The model, made for the U.S. National Museum, shows such a wheel connected to the pestles of a chemist’s stamp mill. The nozzle is attached directly to a spherical copper boiler.
label: Description
content: Reference: Le Machine, Rome, 1668.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Bulletin 173
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.308464
label: catalog number
content: 308464
label: accession number
content: 91736
objectType: label: Object Name
content: turbine
label: Object Name
content: turbine, steam
label: Object Name
content: turbine, steam, model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-from catalog card: 6 in x 7 1/2 in x 10 3/4 in; 15.24 cm x 19.05 cm x 27.305 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 7 3/8 in x 10 7/8 in; 15.24 cm x 18.7325 cm x 27.6225 cm