Lectures on the development of the British gas turbine jet unit
Subtitle: published in War emergency issue no.12 of the Institution of mechanical engineers
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Gas-turbines; Jet propulsion; Airplanes; Motors
Notes: "This American edition ... has been produced in the United States by the American society of mechanical engineers."

Bibliography: p. 451.
Table of contents: title: Introductory address, by Hayne Constant.; title: The early history of the axial type of gas turbine engine, by Hayne Constant.; title: The design and development of centrifugal compressors for aircraft gas turbines, by J.J. Cheshire.; title: Fluid dynamics of axial compressors, by A.R. Howell.; title: Design of axial compressors, by A.R. Howell.; title: Combustion in the gas turbine, by Peter Lloyd.; title: Technique of testing gas turbine engines, by D.N. Walker.; title: Some vibration problems in gas turbine engines, by R.G. Voysey.; title: The turbine for the simple jet propulsion engine, by J. Reeman.; title: Recent developments in materials for gas turbines, by T.A. Taylor.