The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. Many concidered the Tesla Turbine an Engine of the 21st Century. Nikola Tesla created an engine design nearly 100 years ago that is as much as three or four times more efficient than the combustion engine design that has dominated for reasons other than science.
At the time of his invention around 1909, Tesla was able to demonstrate a fuel efficiency of 60% with his bladeless turbine design. The most efficient combustion engines today do not get above 27 - 28% efficiency in their conversion of fuel to work. The politics of his day impeded Tesla's design from being implemented. The piston engine was already well under way, and the oil barons were not encouraging efficiency. Still today, engine manufacturers resist any changes because of retooling expenses.
Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer.
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George Westinghouse invented a better way to deliver electricity to consumers in sweatshops and other jobs before and during the Great Depression. Westinghouse debated over the Alternative Current and the Direct Current with Thomas Edison.
With all his inventions all people knew Nikola Tesla was America's greatest electrical and mechanical engineer and the world knew it too. I imagine this would give Tesla an idea that he was an electrical and mechanical engineer.
Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla coil in 1891 when he was 35 years old.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
On his 50th birthday in 1906, Tesla demonstrated his 200 hp (150 kW) 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine. During 1910 1911 at the Waterside Power Station in New York, several of his bladeless turbine engines were tested at 100 5000 hp. It was patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913.
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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla invented AC, probably a transformer as well but don't quote that.
It was invented in 1895 by Nikola Tesla.
He invented it around 1891.
Nikola Tesla was the inventor of generator