Gas turbine (John Barber's patent)
Turbina de gas (patente de John Barber)
- Date
- 1791 (patente) · confidence high
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- John Barber
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Barber patented the first complete gas-turbine design, including air compression, fuel combustion and expansion of the hot gases over vanes; the design was never actually built in his lifetime.
Barber's patent was never built; the first working gas turbines arrived more than a century later.
What it led to
- Compression-combustion-expansion principles later revived by 20th-century gas turbines
- Gas turbines for electricity generation and aircraft propulsion