Turbine Fuel Test

26th June 1948: A fuel consumption test at the Lutterworth works of the British Thomson-Houston company in Leicestershire. The flames burning freely here are imprisoned in a gas-turbine and provide the power. In this test, paraffin was consumed at the rate of one ton per hour. Original Publication: Picture Post – 4571 – Whittle And The Jet: A Second Industrial Revolution – pub. 1948 (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Getty Images)