 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.[3][4]
 1861: British patent no. 1633 was granted to Marc Antoine Francois
Mennons for a "Caloric engine". The patent shows that it was a gas turbine
and the drawings show it applied to a locomotive.[5] Also named in the patent
was Nicolas de Telescheff (otherwise Nicholas A. Teleshov), a Russian aviation
pioneer.[6]
 1872: A gas turbine engine was designed by 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 US
("Apparatus for generating mechanical power", Patent No. US635,919).[7][8][9]
 1900: Sanford Alexander Moss submitted a thesis on gas turbines. In 1903,
Moss became an engineer for General Electric's Steam Turbine Department
in Lynn, Massachusetts.[10] While there, he applied some of his concepts in the
development of the turbosupercharger. His design used a small turbine wheel,
driven by exhaust gases, to turn a supercharger.[10]
 1903: A Norwegian, ÆgidiusElling, built 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.[11]
 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.
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