The Romance of War Inventions
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Inside a warship's engine room, the difference between a piston engine and a turbine becomes a lesson in how machines use steam. Thomas W. Corbin's account of military and naval inventions explains mechanisms through comparisons with familiar equipment. The discussion of marine propulsion follows steam through turbines and condensers, showing how pressure, cooling and a vacuum contribute to the work of an engine.
Corbin also compares several kinds of boiler, distinguishing designs by the paths taken by water and hot gases. These concrete explanations make the book useful to readers interested in the machinery behind naval technology and the history of engineering. Its appeal lies in following a mechanical process step by step, from the direction a ship can move to the equipment needed to raise steam quickly.
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- Author
- Thomas W. Corbin
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 231
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Military History
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