Tesla Turbine Original - Drawing. Public domain image.

Tesla Turbine Original - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Tesla turbine diagram U.S. Patent 1,061,206 1909 October 21 – Turbine – Improvements in rotary engines and turbines; Mechanical power based the vehicle of fluid for power; Known as the Tesla turbine; Bladeless turbine design; Utilizes boundary layer effect; Fluid does not impact the blades as in a conventional turbine.
Deutsch: Tesla-Turbine in Teslas Patentschrift

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor and engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. He also developed the three-phase system of electric power transmission. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse.

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21/10/1909
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U.S. Patent 1,061,206
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