Gaz Türbinli Motorların Tarihçesi

• 150: Hero's Engine (aeolipile) — Apparently, Hero's steam engine was taken to be no more than a toy, and thus its full potential not realized for centuries.
• 1500: The "Chimney Jack" was drawn by Leonardo da Vinci: Hot air from a fire rises through a single-stage axial turbine rotor mounted in the exhaust duct of the fireplace and turning the roasting spit by gear/ chain connection.
• 1551: Taqi al-Din invented a rudimentary form of an impulse steam turbine, which he used to power a self-rotating spit.^[1]
• 1629: Jets of steam rotated an impulse turbine that then drove a working stamping mill by means of a bevel gear, developed by Giovanni Branca.
• 1678: Ferdinand Verbiest built a model carriage relying on a steam jet for power.
• 1791: A patent was given to John Barber, an Englishman, for the first true gas turbine. His invention had most of the elements present in the modern day gas turbines. The turbine was designed to power a horseless carriage.^[2]
• 1872: A gas turbine engine was designed by Dr. Franz Stolze, but the engine never ran under its own power.
• 1894: Sir Charles Parsons patented the idea of propelling a ship with a steam turbine, and built a demonstration vessel, the Turbinia, easily the fastest vessel afloat at the time. This principle of propulsion is still of some use.
• 1895: Three 4-ton 100 kW Parsons radial flow generators were installed in Cambridge Power Station, and used to power the first electric street lighting scheme in the city.
• 1899: Charles Gordon Curtis patented the first gas turbine engine in the USA ("Apparatus for generating mechanical power", Patent No. US635,919).^[3][4]
• 1900: Dr. Sanford Moss submitted a thesis on gas turbines. Later Dr. Moss became an engineer for General Electric Company in England^{[citation needed]}. While there, he applied some of his concepts in the developement of the turbo-supercharger. His design used a small turbine wheel, driven by exhaust gases, to turn a supercharger.^{[citation needed]}
• 1903: A Norwegian, Ægidius Elling, was able to build the first gas turbine that was able to produce more power than needed to run its own components, which was considered an achievement in a time when knowledge about aerodynamics was limited. Using rotary compressors and turbines it produced 11 hp (massive for those days). His work was later used by Sir Frank Whittle.
• 1906: The Armengaud-Lemale turbine engine in France with water-cooled combustion chamber.
• 1910: Holzwarth impulse turbine (pulse combustion) achieved 150 kilowatts.
• 1913: Nikola Tesla patents the Tesla turbine based on the boundary layer effect.
• 1918: One of the leading gas turbine manufacturers of today, General Electric, started their gas turbine division.
• 1920: The practical theory of gas flow through passages was developed into the more formal (and applicable to turbines) theory of gas flow past airfoils by Dr. A. A. Griffith.
• 1930: Sir Frank Whittle patented the design for a gas turbine for jet propulsion. His work on gas propulsion relied on the work from all those who had previously worked in the same field and he has himself stated that his invention would be hard to achieve without the works of Ægidius Elling. The first successful use of his engine was in April 1937.
• 1932: BBC Brown, Boveri & Cie of Switzerland starts selling axial compressor and turbine turbosets as part of the turbocharged steam generating Velox boiler. Following the gas turbine principle, the steam evaporation tubes are arranged within the gas turbine combustion chamber; the first Velox plant was erected in Mondeville, France.^[5]
• 1934: Raúl Pateras de Pescara patented the free-piston engine as a gas generator for gas turbines.
• 1936: Hans von Ohain and Max Hahn in Germany developed their own patented engine design at the same time that Sir Frank Whittle was developing his design in England.^{[citation needed]}
• 1939: First 4 MW utility power generation gas turbine from BBC Brown, Boveri & Cie. for an emergency power station in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.^[6]