BURDIN, Claude (1788 - 1873)

French engineer and professor.

Claude Burdin coined the term turbine from the Latin word turbo, meaning "vortex," during an 1828 engineering competition. Benoit Fourneyron (1802-1867), a student of Claude Burdin, built the first practical water turbine. This device had a vertical axis carrying a runner with curved blades through which the water travelled almost tangentially. Fixed guide vanes, curved in the opposite direction, were mounted in an annulus inside the runner. Credit for invention of the modern steam turbine is given to British Engineer Sir Charles Parsons (1854 – 1931).

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BURDIN, Claude

Curriculum vitae

* 19.03.1788	Lépin-le-Lac, Duché de Savoie, France	nato
1824		Invention : Concepteur d'une turbine.
1825	Pontgibaud, France	Création et installation de la première turbine, dans un moulin situé à Pontgibaud. Elle avait un rendement énergétique de 67,1 %.
1834	Savoie	Membre correspondant de l'Académie de Savoie.
1842		Membre correspondant de de l'Académie des Sciences.
† 12.11.1873	Clermont-Ferrand	morto
?		Entre à l'École polytechnique et de l'École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, et devient professeur de l'École des Mineurs de Saint-Étienne (devenue l'École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne). Il fait l'essentiel de sa carrière d'ingénieur à Clermont-Ferrand.

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Rivoluzione Industriale, dal 1780 al 1850

Letteratura secondaria

The history of science and technology : a browser's guide to the great discoveries, inventions, and the people who made them, from the dawn of time to today.
Autore: BUNCH, Bryan; Hellemans, Alexander
Pubblicato: 2004

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Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_24544004.html

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BURDIN, Claude (1788 - 1873)