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By night_marios

  • John Barber,

    John Barber,
    mit First patent for a gas turbine (John Barber, United Kingdom)

  • Franz Stolze

    Franz Stolze
    Unsuccessful gas turbine project by Franz Stolze in Berlin (first axial compressor)

  • Armengaud Lemale

    GT by Armengaud Lemale in France (centrifugal compressor, no useful power)

  • Holzwarth

    First GT featuring intermittent combustion (Holzwarth, 150 kW, constant volume combustion)

  • First exhaust-gas turbocharger.

    First exhaust-gas turbocharger to increase the power of diesel engines.

  • György Jendrassik

    György Jendrassik
    György JendrassikGyörgy Jendrassik (1898 Budapest – 1954 London)

  • Allis-Chalmers

    Allis-Chalmers builts 600KW browns-bovery gas turbine sets for US oil fields.

  • Brown, Boveri & Cie

    Brown, Boveri & Cie
    World’s first gas turbine for power generation .

  • First marine gas turbine.

    First marine gas turbine.
    Brown-Bovery installs the first marine gas turbine in the french ship Athos.
  • Period: to

    first flight of jet aircraft.

    First flight of jet aircraft.1939 in Germany,1940 in Italy,on May 14,1941 in England in a Gloster E28.

  • gloster E/28.

    gloster E/28.
    GlosterE/28

  • First gas turbine locomotive.

    Brown-Bovery first time gas turbine locomotive.

  • Boeing Company.

    First mini gas turbine engine,175 hp.

  • first gas turbine refinery.

    first gas turbine refinery.
    General electik teamed with ESSO creates the first gas turbine power refinery.

  • Westinghouse.

    Westinghouse.
    Westinghouse first gas turbine Power Plant.

  • Rolls Royce.

    Rolls Royce, dart turbo propeler engine.First commercial flight.

  • General motor.

    General motor.
    General motors,first gas turbine automobile.

  • g.m.Allison engines GT304-305

    g.m.Allison engines GT304-305
    The Allison Engine Company was an American aircraft engine manufacturer. In 1929, shortly after the death of James Allison, the company was purchased by the Fisher brothers. Fisher sold the company to General Motors, who owned it for most of its history. The company was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc in 1995 to become a subsidiary, Rolls-Royce Corporation.

  • Ford

    1959 Ford Gas Turbine Tractor
    In 1952, Ford Motor Co. began a test program to explore the use of gas turbine engines for automobiles and trucks. It initially tested a
    150-horsepower regenerative turbine engine in a 1954 car, but the results were lackluster. Ford’s emphasis then shifted to trucks, and an improved version of the engine was tested in a tilt-cab truck tractor in 1956. In 1957-58, a 300-horsepower, 704-cubic-inch-displacement engine was developed, and this 1959 tilt-cab CT-1100 truc

  • Gas turbine hovercraft.

    Gas turbine hovercraft.
    first Gas turbine hovercraft over the English channel.