Scientific Papers and Addresses of the Hon. Sir Charles A. Parsons

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Preface G. L. Parsons
Foreword Lady Parsons
Some personal reminiscences of Sir Charles Parsons Lord Rayleigh
Part I:
1. The compound steam turbine and its theory, as applied to the working of dynamo-electric machines
2. The application of the compound steam turbine to the purpose of marine propulsion
3. Presidential address to the Institution of Junior Engineers
4. Motive power - high-speed navigation - steam turbines
5. The steam turbine and its application to the propulsion of vessels
6. Presidential address to the engineering section of the British Association, 1904
7. The steam turbine
8. The steam turbine on land and sea
9. The expansive working of steam in steam turbines
10. The application of the marine steam turbine and mechanical gearing to merchant ships
11. Experiments on the compression of liquids at high pressures
12. The steam turbine
13. The marine steam turbine from 1894 to 1910
14. Presidential address to the North-East Coast Institution
15. Presidential address to the British Association, 1919
16. The rise of motive power and the work of Joule
17. Presidential address to the institute of physics
18. Steam turbines
19. Some investigations into the cause of erosion of the tubes of surface condensers
20. Recent progress in steam turbine plant
Part II:
21. Experiments on carbon at high temperatures and under great pressures, and in contact with other substances
22. Some notes on carbon at high temperatures and pressures
23. Experiments on the artificial production of diamond
Part III: Appendix A. The Parsons auxetophone
Appendix B. Optical glass
Appendix C. List of papers
Index.

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