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Search for a Rolls Royce "Nene". This is a typical thrust engine with a centrifugal compressor.

I forgot about axial flows getting a small rise at each stage. Its common to find centrifugal compressors on helicopter engines and APUs. The popular Allison 250 has a few stages of axial feeding a centrifugal. Centrifugal compressors require less power for starting.

Keep in mind that self locking nuts loose some grip every time they are removed. Every fastener on an old airplane ends up with a lot more tension than they were intended to have. This is because only one torque spec is published and mechanics aren't smart enough to compensate for used hardware.

Gas turbine compressors only accelerate air. The pressure rise comes when the fast moving air is dumped into the larger volume combustion section. Its all about Bernoullis principle.