Compressor Handbook
Contributors: Principles of Bearing Design, Chapter 19
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2001
Number of pages: 152
First sentence: From the standpoint of speed and pressure heads one can, in a general fashion, classify compressors as follows:  Reciprocating - low speeds generating both moderate and high pressures; Centrifugal - high speeds and moderate pressures; and Axial flow - very high speeds and low pressure.