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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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Incidently the swiss might be regarded as the inventors of the
stationary gas turbine and still manufacture non aero-engine
detivative power plants. Swiss academics and German academics
developed the aixial compressor in the early 30s and this familiarity
was in part responsible for the selection of axial units on some of
the first Jets.

There is no might about it.

Brown Boveri of Baden, CH were manufacturing gas turbines
for commercial use in the 30's. One such unit was installed at
the Sun Oil Marcus Refinery in Pennsylvania in 1936, others
were installed in the municipal power station at Neuchatel in 1939

Keith