turbine engine

An engine driven by means of a steam turbine or turbines. Recently com pound turbine engines have been constructed up to 900 horse-power, both condensing and non-condensing, and consumptions of steam as low as fourteen pounds per indicated horse-power with saturated steam and 100 pounds boiler pre ure have been attained in engines of 250 horse-power, and still lower consumptions in engines of larger size. The steam turbine-driven bat Turbina , on her trial trip in England on April 10, 1898, attained the unprecedented speed of 32% knots an hour.