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"For example, the turbine of the V-2 rocket was spun with steam ..." Steam technology and rocket technology have a shared history. That kind of bottleneck sha
by debt 8y ago
"For example, the turbine of the V-2 rocket was spun with steam ..."
Steam technology and rocket technology have a shared history.
That kind of bottleneck shape that a is quintessential shape of a rocket engine, is actually a Steam-Engine-era technology called a de Laval nozzle.
I didn't know they used a tiny steam engine inside a V-2.
I think it's cool that the design of such an old technology, the steam engine, lives on inside the design of such a new technology, the rocket.
- trhway 8y ago>I didn't know they used a tiny steam engine inside a V-2. it wasnt steam engine per.se., it was catalytic peroxide decomposition.
- InclinedPlane 8y agoThe Soyuz first stage uses the same system even today.