"A bunch of idiots! The blades aren't better just because they're harder!" Perfikot shouted angrily as she looked at the experiment reports submitted by her assistants.
These fellows had obviously gotten stuck in a rut, solely focusing on increasing the hardness of the blade material, making the entire material very brittle. In such a case, using it for steam turbine blades, especially moving blades, naturally results in nothing but fractures and breakdowns.
But it's understandable for them; the gap from piston steam engines to steam turbines spans at least a hundred years, almost as if leaping from the First Industrial Revolution to the Second Industrial Revolution.
Not to mention, Perfikot designed a multi-stage steam turbine, which increases the machine's complexity and the material requirements for the blades even more.
She had considered making a single-stage impulse turbine to thoroughly understand the related technology before attempting a multi-stage one.