Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Two Types Of Power generators: Diagram, left above, shows conventional steam turbine, which produces electric power when the turbine blades are rotated in a magnetic field. The other diagram illustrates magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power, produced when a hot, electrically conducting gas passes through a magnetic field.
Two Types Of Power generators: Diagram, left above, shows conventional steam turbine, which produces electric power when the turbine blades are rotated in a magnetic field. The other diagram illustrates magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power, produced when a hot, electrically conducting gas passes through a magnetic field.
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Two Types Of Power generators: Diagram, left above, shows conventional steam turbine, which produces electric power when the turbine blades are rotated in a magnetic field. The other diagram illustrates magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power, produced when a hot, electrically conducting gas passes through a magnetic field.

[ca. April 1969]

CC0 — Public Domain
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[Information from item housing] General Electric Company

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