Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company
- Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company
Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based in Wallsend, North England, on the River Tyne. It was founded by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1897 with £500,000 of capital, and specialised in building the steam turbine engines that Parsons had invented for naval use. [ [http://www.birrcastle.com/inventionsAndExperiments.asp Chronology of Charles Parsons Life] ]
The Royal Navy's first turbine powered battleship, HMS Dreadnought, used turbines made by Parsons and the 31,000 ton Cunard express passenger liners Mauretania and Lusitania were equipped with 73,000 horsepower turbine engines made by Parsons.
The Invincible class battlecruisers all used propulsion systems manufactured by the company.
The company was absorbed into C. A. Parsons and Company and survives in the Heaton area of Newcastle as part of Siemens, a German industrial conglomerate.
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* C. A. Parsons and Company
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