"Twenty horsepower per pound of weight." Gas turbine. The reasons for the failure of Nikola Tesla.

Laboratory on Vardenklife was closed, its dissolved state, the protection is removed. From Tesla's gone even Scherf, joined the company for production of sulfur. Once a week, without any of the rewards he came to Tesla, and saw to it that his case is not completely confused. Two secretaries are still served at the Tesla, but the correspondence with the companies ceased, and their help was not needed. Now, the money, and every reminder of them even more irritated by Tesla. He could not bear to keep them in their hands, saying that absolutely does not need them and agree to completely give up all their habits, just to be able to continue to work to create a "world system". Just to finish the construction of the tower, laboratories, demonstrate the applicability of their findings!

The collapse of the hopes for the end of the construction of "world system" is still forced Tesla to undertake the development of one of the many ideas that came to him in the distant teenage years. Later, he came back to her the next morning and said Scherf:

- I soon will build a small steam engine - it will be a power station, a free fit in a hat.

In 1906, Tesla created a steam turbine of the original design. At a power of 30 horsepower she weighed only 10 pounds. 3 horsepower to 1 pound of weight - this heating engineer did not know! But Tesla did not stop there and put forth the motto: "20 horsepower per 1 pound of weight." He even put it on his personal letterhead.

At the thought of such a machine he has guided the memory of the time spent in the mountains of Velebit, when he fantasized zagotavlivaya ideas for the future. The dream of creating a European postal service with the United States through the pipeline, located on the ocean floor with sending mail in a ball, driven by steam, was unfeasible because of the friction couple of the pipe wall. This led me to the idea to use a Tesla steam generated by friction in their steam turbine.

His devices were used not only to the expansion of steam between the shoulder blades, but also the strength of the friction pair. Tesla built several models and prototypes of these turbines. One output of 500 kW at 3600 rpm with 15 disks with a diameter of 60 inches was tested and showed practically sufficiently high efficiency. However, this turbine and require high initial and final pressure of steam has been proposed as one of the stages of the multistage plant. Thus, we can assume that Tesla invented what is now called "upstream" of the turbine, or forshaltturbiny. The use of such turbines increases the overall efficiency of the installation steps, and therefore they are used and present.

However, Tesla developed the turbine project, working not at the expense of expansion of steam, and by the combustion turbine in the most different gases. Thus, the first of the possible types of gas turbine - this most progressive construction of power-generating equipment, which opens great prospects for the use of underground coal gasification - was created by Nikola Tesla.

The whole range of issues Tesla held for quite a long period - the time of cessation of work in Vardenklife until 1914, when the pre-war situation required the transition to work on other projects. Again, the development of the Tesla Energy designs of the equipment was only able to return in 1925. But during the past six to eight years (1906-1914 gg.) Tesla completed a number of major works, has received several patents and has enriched thermal power many new and original ideas.

The son of one of the oldest employees of Tesla, Julius Chito, a mechanic at "Waldorf Astoria" produced in 1906 the first model of a steam turbine designed by Tesla, then he twice made them again in 1911 and 1925 respectively. With the latest model Tesla experimented right up until 1929.

Why, however, these inventions of Tesla have not found wide acceptance? Firstly, because the thoughts arising from Tesla in the late 80-ies of the last century, and representing at that time the discovery of great importance to the beginning of the XX century, when there were also widely used steam turbines Laval and Parsons, has not had much value.

The second and perhaps more important reason was that the constructive talent Tesla was well below his experimental skill. In addition, Tesla in the warehouse of his character could not and did not know how to work in a team, are not attracted to the joint work of talented designers, to jointly develop concrete, actionable types of equipment that could go into production. Meanwhile, already long gone are the days when a single inventor could fruitfully develop their ideas. The rapid development of science and technology of the XX century excluded the possibility of the creation of industrial designs is collective. Tesla looked forward who saw barely outlines the contours of the future in science, he remained a typical inventor of the 80-ies of the last century.

But justice demands indicate that loneliness can be partly explained by the reluctance of organic enrichment Tesla serve monopolies, without which it was impossible to find the means to work in a big team. It was a peculiar form of protest against the social order, to enrich a handful of tycoons hated Tesla.

Tesla's tragedy - the tragedy of a great scientist, who did not wish to bow his head before the "monster of Wall Street," did not wish to become a servant of the Morgan, Rockefeller and Du Pont. Create not for their enrichment, and for the people, for humanity, for the purposes of peace and not war - this is the true aspiration of Tesla.