Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Leverhulme's collection gone, taken away! It was a slur upon London as an Art capital, a slur upon England herself, for was not a nation's Art its chief strength and treasure? A steam of tears rose from a dozen editorial pages. With the lamentable psychology of one who does not count his chickens until they have been run over, the press pointed out that Leverhulme's collection included two paintings by Rembrandt, several by Frans Hals, Gainsborough's portrait of Squire Nuttall, Reynolds' "Countess of Thanet" and "Venus," Sir Martin Shee...
Announcement came out of England that the shipbuilding firm of William Denny & Brothers, of Dumbarton, Scotland, was to build an experimental ship whose propulsive steam would be retained in water-tube boilers capable of sustaining a pressure of 550 Ibs. to the square inch - more than twice the steam pressure of any steam installation used aboard ship today. This announcement, though it followed close upon the heels of a paper read by a famed engineer before the British Institution of Naval Engineering suggesting that steam turbines could be developed with pressures hitherto undreamed of, might have attracted little notice...
...nearly 30 years ago that an engineer named Parsons plagued the British Admiralty to take up his steam "turbine" and try it in driving battleships. The Government skeptically observed the plans for a machine which applied the energy of a jet of steam impinging upon the blades or vanes of a wheel to produce the rotation of a shaft to which the wheel was fitted. The Government shook its head and Engineer Parsons returned to Scotland, not unruffled. He had discovered the turbine principle a decade before, had perfected it for small units, was convinced it could drive a ship...
...gave chase. But the Turbinia showed a clean pair of heels to the fastest ships of the line. Aboard her stood Engineer Parsons, grinning. He had the fastest ship in the world. Within seven years, every British man-of-war and most large passenger ,ships were being fitted with steam turbines. In 1911 the inventor was knighted...
Until the introduction of the oil-combustion motors, no power unit approached the steam turbine for efficiency, economy, and simplicity of operation. Lately the trend has been toward Diesel type motors for all but the largest of ships. The Denny experimental ship, plying as a ferry on the River Clyde, will be closely observed to see if steam has caught up with its rival...