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The Victorians developed effective turbines for turning water and steam power into work, and also turbopumps for doing the opposite.
During the early part of the 20th century, research was carried out into various arrangements for turbo-compression, combustion and turbine work extraction in the internal combustion engine (both piston and jet). They ranged from simple blowers feeding a piston engine to turbocharged piston engines in which thrust might be derived from either the turbine or the crank shaft, to turbine engines from which thrust might be derived from the turbine, its shaft or the exhaust nozzle. I might have missed a few. Some of this work was carried out under the public gaze, even patented, some was kept a dark secret, much was duplicated by one researcher or another in one country or another. So how much did everybody know about everybody else's work?
The idea of this thread is to uncover the chronology of ideas, hardware and influencing that went on during the conception and development of the various forms of internal-combustion engine turbine. Just to kick it off:
We have a short thread on this forum about some of the early Farnborough work at https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/gas-turbine-development-question.28079/
There is a simplified chronology of early turbojet development at http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/125/achievements/whittle/Chronology.htm
It only kicks off in 1929, but even so it includes lesser-known names such as Lysholm, working at Milo AB in Sweden, Wagner at Junkers in Germany, and Lyul’ka in the USSR.
Lysholm deserves a good deal more attention than he has received.
See for example https://www.motoringweekly.com.au/2018/08/29/alf-lysholm/ where he is credited with the first turboprop.
Here is a US patent of his for a gas turbine, or turboshaft, engine lodged in 1934 (and in Germany back in 1930): https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/07/e9/38/88ae3d16a7c321/US2078956.pdf It embodies the constant-pressure principle, which would eventually prove inefficient.
A bit more on him, if you can stand the writing style and digressions, at https://ingeniumcanada.org/channel/...r-or-even-six-the-stal-skuten-dovern-and-glan
And what of Milo AB? It appears as the assignee of his patent, and gets a brief namecheck in Gunston's World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines, but it was not his main employer.
During the early part of the 20th century, research was carried out into various arrangements for turbo-compression, combustion and turbine work extraction in the internal combustion engine (both piston and jet). They ranged from simple blowers feeding a piston engine to turbocharged piston engines in which thrust might be derived from either the turbine or the crank shaft, to turbine engines from which thrust might be derived from the turbine, its shaft or the exhaust nozzle. I might have missed a few. Some of this work was carried out under the public gaze, even patented, some was kept a dark secret, much was duplicated by one researcher or another in one country or another. So how much did everybody know about everybody else's work?
The idea of this thread is to uncover the chronology of ideas, hardware and influencing that went on during the conception and development of the various forms of internal-combustion engine turbine. Just to kick it off:
We have a short thread on this forum about some of the early Farnborough work at https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/gas-turbine-development-question.28079/
There is a simplified chronology of early turbojet development at http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/125/achievements/whittle/Chronology.htm
It only kicks off in 1929, but even so it includes lesser-known names such as Lysholm, working at Milo AB in Sweden, Wagner at Junkers in Germany, and Lyul’ka in the USSR.
Lysholm deserves a good deal more attention than he has received.
See for example https://www.motoringweekly.com.au/2018/08/29/alf-lysholm/ where he is credited with the first turboprop.
Here is a US patent of his for a gas turbine, or turboshaft, engine lodged in 1934 (and in Germany back in 1930): https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/07/e9/38/88ae3d16a7c321/US2078956.pdf It embodies the constant-pressure principle, which would eventually prove inefficient.
A bit more on him, if you can stand the writing style and digressions, at https://ingeniumcanada.org/channel/...r-or-even-six-the-stal-skuten-dovern-and-glan
And what of Milo AB? It appears as the assignee of his patent, and gets a brief namecheck in Gunston's World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines, but it was not his main employer.
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