Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10871

    ‘1,000kW gas turbine engine’

    Date
    1959
    Creator
    Geoffrey Bertram Robert Feilden (1917 - 2004, British) , Engineer
    Object type
    Library reference
    57377
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 231mm
    width (drawing): 332mm
    Subject
    Description
    Simplified cross-section of a conventionally designed 1,000kW gas turbine power-plant for oilfield, standby and other applications.

    Original illustration (figure 1a) to the paper “World-wide operating experience with 750/1000 kW gas turbines”, by G.B.R. Feilden, presented at the CIMAC Congress, Wiesbaden, June 1959. The paper considers the operating experience of medium power gas turbines and Ruston & Hornsby Ltd., Mark TA gas turbines.

    G.B.R.Feilden was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1959. From 1954 he was Engineering Director at Ruston & Hornby Ltd., of Lincoln having joined the company from Frank Whittle’s Power Jets team in 1946.
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