Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based on the River Tyne at Wallsend, North East England. Charles Algernon Parsons...

Its modern manifestation was invented by Charles Parsons in 1884. Fabrication of a modern steam turbine involves advanced metalwork to form high-grade steel...

Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS (13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931) was an English marine engineer best known for his invention of the compound steam turbine, and...

Algernon Parsons in 1889 to produce steam turbines, his own invention. At the beginning of the 20th century, the company was producing up to 50 turbines a year...

efficiency. Steam turbines were fueled by coal or, later, fuel oil or nuclear power. The marine steam turbine developed by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons raised...

Algernon Parsons invented the modern steam turbine in 1884, and having foreseen its potential to power ships, he set up the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company...

York City Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, company founded by Charles Parsons to build marine steam turbines WSP Global, formerly Parsons Brinckerhoff...

case of steam turbines, such as would be used for marine applications or for land-based electricity generation, a Parsons-type reaction turbine would require...

service, (pioneered on the Turbinia), steam turbines with reduction gearing (although the Turbinia has direct turbines to propellers with no reduction gearbox)...

the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company converted her to steam turbine propulsion. She is notable as the first ship in the World whose turbines drove...

a horseless carriage. 1894: Sir Charles Parsons patented the idea of propelling a ship with a steam turbine, and built a demonstration vessel, the Turbinia...

hydroelectric water turbines and steam turbines did not appear until the 1880s. Gas turbines appeared in the 1930s. The first impulse type turbine was created...

changed to steam turbine in the early 20th century. In the latter part of the 20th century, these, in turn, were replaced by gas turbines. Steamship generally...

running steam turbines in destroyers. He then worked in the USA on the building and installation of marine steam turbines. From 1910 he had his own marine repair...

two types of steam turbines. He combined the principles of the Laval turbine and the Parsons turbine into a multi-stage impulse turbine (similar to the...

Algernon Parsons invented the steam turbine and, in 1889, founded his own company C. A. Parsons and Company in Heaton, Newcastle to make steam turbines. Shortly...

by steam turbines. After the demonstration by British engineer Charles Parsons of his steam turbine-driven yacht, Turbinia, in 1897, the use of steam turbines...

21,500 tons at 31 ft. 8 in. draught. The ship's turbines were built by the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Wallsend, England, in 1907, and were capable...

Scotch marine boilers providing steam at 150 pounds per square inch (1,000 kPa) to Parsons turbines. Steam first drove a high-pressure turbine, which...

Laforey and Leonidas were fitted with geared (as opposed to direct drive) steam turbines for increased efficiency. Llewellyn, Lennox, Lochinvar and Lassoo were...

trials vessel for gas turbine propulsion, becoming the first major warship of the Royal Navy to be entirely powered by gas turbines. In this configuration...

coming from Associated Electrical Industries of Manchester, Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company of Wallsend-on-Tyne, John I. Thornycroft & Company of...

surname of Parsons include the following. Charles Algernon Parsons (1854–1931), English marine engineer, inventor of the steam turbine Charles Parsons (philosopher)...

electricity. The invention of Parsons's steam turbine made cheap and plentiful electricity possible. Parsons turbines were widely introduced in English...

Parsons steam turbine. A high-pressure turbine drove her centre shaft. Exhaust steam from the centre turbine powered a pair of low-pressure turbines that...

Algernon Parsons developed the steam turbine, used in early electrical generation and to power ships. The efficiency of large steam turbines is considerably...

propeller sets. Not to be confused with C. A. Parsons and Company who made marine steam turbines. Harry Parsons was at one time the chief designer for Rudge-Whitworth...

the end of the war. In 1928, d'Eyncourt joined the board of Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company until he retired in 1948. He lived for most of his retirement...

registered tons and was powered by three direct drive steam turbines built by Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company. The vessel held a passenger certificate...

steam turbines built by Inglis at their Warroch Street Engine Works in Glasgow. Inglis were one of the first companies licensed by the Parsons Marine...