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Constant pressure steam turbine (right) with gearbox (center) and flywheel (left), Deutsches Museum, Munich
Laval used the Laval nozzle named after him for the construction of this turbine , which he patented in 1883 and with which a gas flow can be accelerated to supersonic speed.