Abstract
The first portion of this paper reviews briefly the progress of turbine and power-plant design over the last 20 years.
The second portion illustrates with numerous assembly drawings the progress of recent turbine design and shows both the standard and the special types of turbines being built to meet present requirements. In addition, it sets forth the general principles governing turbine construction and illustrates some of the new turbine constructions designed to withstand extremely high pressures and temperatures. The trend of turbine reliability and turbine economy is shown, and a number of test results of large modern turbines are made available.
The third section discusses detailed considerations of turbine design, and illustrates numerous turbine parts designed for the utilization of high pressures and high temperatures, but which may be of interest for other fields of application.