"harry" wrote in message
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On Feb 28, 12:50 am, "Jim Wilkins" wrote:

Development work on small steam turbines at Doble led to an American
jet engine proposal contemporary with the British, German and
Italian
efforts, but not as well
supported:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_J37

-That was a 19th century British invention. Long before Doble.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Algernon_Parsons
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_turbine

It's a freakin windmill that the ancient Greeks had. The modern idea
was French:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Burdin

http://www.hydroroues.fr/histoturb.htm
"Le terme même de turbine avait été créé par l'ingénieur des mines
Burdin, professeur à l' École de Saint-Étienne."
in 1822