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PNEUMATIC OPTIONS RESEARCH LIBRARY 2011 CATALOG

Tesla Turbine

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The Design, Construction and Investigation of a Tesla Turbine, Masters Thesis by Audley B. Leaman.  Tested with air.  Lots of detail on design and construction including nozzle and exhaust dimensions; simple math. Its nuts-and-bolts approach makes this thesis more accessible than the others. Unique design eliminates holes in discs, making the whole disc area a working surface.

Item #20-95

 

 

 

Tesla Turbine Theory (2nd edition), Transcript of 20-minute interview with Jerry LaBine, assembly drawings from patent files, articles from technical journals 1913-1975, Gurth’s Discflo pumps, Bibliography of theses and dissertations on the Tesla turbine.

Item #17-00

 

 

Performance Characteristics of a Friction Disc Turbine, Ph.D. Thesis by Elroy William Beans.  Air was used in the testing.  Also tested was a disc-type fan, with encouraging results.  Starts with a good technical, yet understandable, description of how and why the Tesla turbine works, and ascends into higher math and fluid dynamics.  Lots of good information.

IItem #18-95

 

Tesla Air Engine Plans, Theoretical discussion and plans for the Tesla turbine and the Tesla's oscillating piston air motor.  This was the valveless piston motor that Tesla designed to be used with his secret self-fueling air engine/compressor combination.  Tesla accidentally started an earthquake in his New York City neighborhood when he attached his oscillator to a steel post and tapped the post at different frequencies.  He was watching different objects in his apartment vibrate sympathetically with the different frequencies when the firemen broke down his door with an axe and told him he was causing an earthquake.

Item #39-00

 

An Investigation of Multiple-disk Turbine Performance Parameters, Masters Thesis by Michael John Lawn Jr.  This Tesla turbine was tested with liquid sodium, liquid hydrogen, and glycerine as working fluids.

Item #19-95

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