a verbal element repr. TURBINE, in compounds forming the names of various machines driven by and directly coupled to a turbine, or which are themselves turbines, the second element being the name of the machine so driven or coupled; thus = TURBINE in comb.; as turbo-alternator, -dynamo, -generator, -machine, -motor, -pump, -unit, -ventilator.
1900. Engineer, 2 Nov., 444/3. Tests … on two *turbo alternators of 1000 kilowatts per hour nominal output.
1902. Sloane, Stand. Electr. Dict., App., Turbo-alternator, an alternating current dynamo coupled direct to a high-speed steam turbine.
1904. Electr. World & Engin., 19 March, 558. Electrical and mechanical difficulties which arise in the design of *turbo-dynamos (dynamo-electric generators directly connected to steam-turbines). Ibid. (1904), 21 May, 945. Each of the … *turbo-electric units is of the vertical type. Ibid. (1903), 25 July, 147. Two groups of *turbo-exciters, of 110 h. p. each.
1902. Sloane, Stand. Electr. Dict., App., *Turbo-generator, a generator coupled or geared to a high-speed steam turbine, and on the same base with it.
1911. Evolution of Parsons Steam Turbine, 30. This turbo-generator worked for many years.
1903. Sci. Amer., Supp., 26 Sept., 23185. Steam-turbines are … analogous to hydraulic turbines, and form part of the general class which the author [Professor Rateau] will call *‘turbo-machines.’
1900. Westm. Gaz., 7 Sept., 6/1. A torpedo-destroyer … driven through the water at the rate of forty-three miles an hour by the use of the *turbo-motor instead of reciprocating engines.
1903. Electr. World & Engin., 4 July, 17. Prof. Rateau has installed *turbo-ventilators giving a pressure of half an atmosphere, and *turbo-pumps with a lift of several hundred metres.
