Ceramic Tesla Turbine

Apologies for the camera work.

Ceramic tesla turbine.

The us patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th may 1913 although historical documents suggest that that tesla first showed a 200 horsepower about 150kw 16 000. In the tesla turbine air steam oil or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a series of smooth parallel disks. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine the tesla turbine is also known as the boundary layer turbine cohesion type turbine and prandtl layer turbine after ludwig prandtl because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional turbine. I was blowing the air into the turbine and couldn t see what was being filmed.

The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 1913. Build a 15 000 rpm tesla turbine using hard drive platters. It was invented and patented by nikola tesla on the 21st october 1909 at the united states patent office from experiments done in england. A tesla turbine is a quite unique technology.

Here s a project that uses some of those dead hard drives you ve got lying around. This test was done without preloading the bearings. The bearings were damaged as a. Further improvements have been made after plenty of r d from the last turbine.