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History
Ancient gas turbines
Up to date gas turbines for aviation
Up to date industrial gas turbines

Development of gas turbines

1791 - John Barber received the first patent for a basic turbine engine.
His design was planned to use as a method of propelling the 'horseless
carriage.' The turbine was designed with a chain-driven, reciprocating
type of compressor.
It has a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine.
1872 - Dr. F. Stolze designed the first true gas turbine engine.
His engine used a multistage turbine section and a flow compressor.
This engine never ran under its own power.
1903 - Aegidius Elling of Norway built the first successful gas turbine
using both rotary compressors and turbines - the first gas turbine with
excess power.
1904 Unsuccessful gas turbine project by Franz Stolze in Berlin (first
axial compressor)
1906 GT by Armengaud Lemale in France (centrifugal compressor, no
useful power)
1910 First GT featuring intermittent combustion (Holzwarth, 150 kW,
constant volume combustion)
1914 - Charles Curtis filed the first application for a gas turbine engine.

Further development of gas turbines

1918 - General Electric company started a gas turbine division.
Dr. Stanford A. Moss developed the GE turbosupercharger engine
during W.W.I. It used hot exhaust gases from a reciprocating engine
to drive a turbine wheel that in turn drove a centrifugal compressor
used for supercharging.
1920 - Dr. A. A. Griffith developed a theory of turbine design based
on gas flow past airfoils rather than through passages.
1923 First exhaust-gas turbocharger to increase the power of diesel
engines
1930 - Sir Frank Whittle in England patented a design for a gas
turbine for jet propulsion. The first successful use of this engine was
in April, 1937.
His early work on the theory of gas propulsion was based on the
contributions of most of the earlier pioneers of this field.
1936 - At the same time as Frank Whittle was working in Great
Britain, Hans von Ohian and Max Hahn, students in Germany
developed and patented their own engine design.
1939 (August) - The aircraft company Ernst Heinkel Aircraft flew
the first flight of a gas turbine jet, the HE178.

Further development of gas turbines

1938 Gyrgy Jedrassik (Hungary) designed and build a pilot a gas
turbine with 73 kW, 21.2% efficiency.
1939 Worlds first gas turbine for power generation
(Brown Boveri Company), Neuchtel, Switzerland
1941 - Sir Frank Whittle designed the first successful turbojet airplane,
the Gloster Meteor, flown over Great Britain. Whittle improved his jet
engine during the war, and in 1942 he shipped an engine prototype to
General Electric in the United States. America's first jet plane was
built the following year.
1942 - Dr. Franz Anslem developed the axial-flow turbojet, Junkers
Jumo 004, used in the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first
operational jet fighter.
After W.W.II, the development of jet engines was directed by a
number of commercial companies.
Jet engines soon became the most popular method of powering
airplanes.
Developments happens for the first time for military applications
Then it is followed by commercial flight and then industrial
applications

Drawing of first gas turbine

[from Eddie Taylors paper collection]

Turboprop engine of Gyrgy Jendrassik

The worlds first aircraft to fly purely on turbojet power, the

Heinkel He 178. Its first true flight was on 27 August, 1939.

Axial-flow turbojet, Junkers Jumo 004, used in the

Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet fighter.

Gas turbine of Whittle (1941)

Subsonic fighter aircraft engine

Subsonic fighter aircrafts

MIG 15
F86Sabre

Development of engine pressure ratio over years

Development of firing temperature over years

Single shaft gas turbine

Dual Shaft Gas Turbine

Dual Shaft Aero-derivative Gas Turbine

Three-shaft gas turbine principal

Three-shaft gas turbine

Three-shaft industrial gas-turbine

Three-shaft industrial gas-turbine

Aero turbo-fan engine principal

Three-shaft aero engine

Turbofan engine built up

Rolls-Royce Trent

Real turbo-fan engine

Real turbo-fan engine

Combustion chamber cross section

Supersonic fighter aircraft engine

Supersonic fighter aircraft engine

Aircraft engine with trust reverse

Afterburner

Up to date industrial gas-turbine cross section

Up to date industrial gas-turbine cross section

Industrial gas turbine

Installed industrial gas turbine

Gas turbine with silo type combustors

Recuperative industrial gas turbine

Turbine stages of an industrial gas turbine

Turbine stages of an industrial gas turbine

during maintenance

Combustion chamber elements of an

industrial gas turbine

Combined gas and oil burner

of an industrial gas turbine

Transition pieces in between combustion

chamber an turbine

Stator blades of the turbine

of an industrial gas turbine

Sealing solutions of turbine blades

Operational flow chart of Capstone C330

Cross section of Capstone C330

Summary
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History
Ancient gas turbines
Up to date gas turbines for aviation
Up to date industrial gas turbines

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