Yarrow-style boilers offered the power-to-weight ratio destroyers needed, and the U.S. Navy obtained them directly, under license, or through American assembly. That lineage continued into simpler American boilers operating at higher pressures by World War II. The Brown-Curtis turbine followed the opposite geographical path, with a U.S. design refined in Britain. These paired examples show British and American firms improving machinery designs that had crossed the Atlantic.
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Yarrow boilers and Brown-Curtis turbines show transatlantic design exchange
British Yarrow boilers and the Brown-Curtis turbine story illustrate how British and American firms refined one another's destroyer machinery.