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Nuclear Power - A steam turbine

Time: 1884

Place: United Kingdom

Details: A steam turbine is a device 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.

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