What is "steam turbines"

Usage examples of "steam turbines".

Deep in her bowels below the super-structure, the four steam turbines mustering a total of 90,000 shaft horsepower were already installed, ready to drive her twin screws, whose 40-foot-diameter bronze propellers could be vaguely seen glinting below her stern.

These huge passenger specials were radically streamlined, constructed largely of new alloy-steels and light metals, and powered by giant steam turbines driving turbo-blowers.

There was a roar from its steam turbines as the destroyer tried to maneuver.

Carpenter, but there are still a hundred things that can go wrong with it, and if anything happens to the reactor or the steam turbines or the electrical generators, then we're already in our coffin and the lid screwed down.

Therefore, we require an extensive heating and electrical supply as only steam turbines can produce.

The Chosen had been experimenting with steam turbines for more than a decade now.

Most of the cars, however, were old steam turbines, and a few, even older, seemed to be internal-combustion models, more suited to a museum or a junkyard than a parking lot.

Thus we burn coal and oil to run steam turbines, which in turn run dynamos, which generate electricity.

Then they were beyond the main cylinder of the habitat, working their way through the maze of pipes and steam turbines in the power station.

It was a low-slung, streamlined tank eighteen feet long, powered by nuclear-activated steam turbines.