A steam turbine or steam turbine engine is a machine or heat engine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Charles Parsons in 1884.

Feb 10, 2025 · The first device that can be classified as a reaction steam turbine is the aeolipile proposed by Hero of Alexandria, during the 1st century ce. In this device, steam was supplied through a hollow rotating shaft to a hollow rotating sphere.

Steam power developed slowly over a period of several hundred years, progressing through expensive and fairly limited devices in the early 17th century, to useful pumps for mining in 1700, and then to Watt's improved steam engine designs in the late 18th century.

A rudimentary impact steam turbine was described in 1551 by Taqi al-Din, a philosopher, astronomer and engineer in 16th century Ottoman Egypt, who described a method for rotating a spit by means of a jet of steam playing on rotary vanes around the periphery of a wheel.

Aeolipile, steam turbine invented in the 1st century ad by Heron of Alexandria and described in his Pneumatica. The aeolipile was a hollow sphere mounted so that it could turn on a pair of hollow tubes that provided steam to the sphere from a cauldron.

What was the first device that may be classified as a reaction steam turbine? Hero of Alexandria in Roman Egypt introduced the Aeolipile in the 1st century, marking the inception of a reaction steam turbine.

British engineer Sir Charles Algernon Parsons invented the first modern version of the steam turbine in 1884. His design allowed for great extraction of kinetic energy while preventing turbine blades from overspeeding.

Mar 29, 2009 · In 1894 Parsons took out patent No. 394 for 'Propelling a vessel by means of a steam turbine, which turbine actuates the propeller or paddle shaft directly or through gearing'.

1884 - Sir Charles Parsons builds the first real steam turbine. The knowledge required to build this came from. 1903 - Curtis and William Le Roy Emmet develop the 5000 kW vertical turbine for General Electric, this turbine created enormous amount of of …

Aug 1, 1996 · BBC delivered its first steam turbine, a 250 kW machine operating at 3,000 rpm, in 1901. By the middle of 1902, BBC had produced 17 steam turbines and generators with output totaling more...