Jonval
c.1838 M. Jonval brought out his first model of turbine wheel.
1841 He patented the wheel, which works on the same principle as the Fourneyron wheel but with a different mode of action.
1841 Construction of the wheels on a larger scale started at the works of Andre Koechlin and Co., of Mulhouse
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Engineer 1862/08/08