RATEAU, Auguste Camille Edmond (1863 - 1930)

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French engineer. In the power industry Rateau is remembered primarily for his steam turbine. Rateau is credited with the invention of the pressure stage impulse turbine.

In the power industry Rateau is remembered primarily for his steam turbine. Rateau is credited with the invention of the pressure stage impulse turbine. He restricted the expansion of steam to the nozzles but used larger pressure drops per stage. In his design the rotors were separated by diaphragms which contained the nozzles. This reduced the number of stages for a given power output and shortened the distance between bearings. The Rateau turbine has been dated at 1901; the U.S. patent was issued in 1903. His turbine found wide acceptance in both marine and central station applications. The use of a single Curtis wheel, followed by a number of Rateau stages, characterized General Electric Company practice in the United States over the succeeding half-century. The combination is still widely used today. As early as 1900 Rateau was interested in the problems associated with aviation. He studied aircraft performance, wing sections, and aircraft propellers, confirming his calculations with wind tunnel tests. Although Rateau did not invent the turbosuper-charger, he was perhaps the first to apply it to aircraft engines (1916–1917). He investigated the effect of the supercharged engine on the range and altitude capabilities of airplanes.

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RATEAU, Auguste Camille Edmond

History

20.05.1803		Patent N°712593: automatic governor for turbines.
* 13.10.1863	Royan, France	nato
1883		The Academy of Sciences awarded Rateau the Prix Laplace.
1883		Diplômé à l'école Polytechnique.
1885		Installations techniques en Belgique, en Allemagne, en Autriche-Hongrie, l'Italie et la Russie.
1888	Saint-Etienne	Professeur à l'Ecole des Mines : il a combiné l'enseignement des droits miniers et des affectations de chemin de fer dans le centre et le sud de la France.
1892		Considérations sur les turbo-machines.
1898		Corps des Mines.
1899		Fourneyron Prix.
1899		Secrétaire de la Commission sur les matériaux de construction et en tant que consultant pour la firme de Houilteres de diamant Saint-Laurent.
1900		Traité des turbo-machines.
1901 - 1903		L'invention de la « Turbine Rateau » a été datée à 1901 mais le brevet américain a été délivré en 1903.
12.04.1901		Patent N°679242: Steam regenerative accumulator.
01.08.1901		Patent A.C.E Rateau & G. Sautter N° 691914: lubricating steam turbines.
07.10.1901		Patent N°742231: centrifugal pump.
1902		Professeur à l'Ecole Supérieure des Mines de Paris.
12.08.1902		Patent A.C.E Rateau & H. A.E. Harlé N° 712594: Stuffing box for turbines.
26.05.1903		Patent N°765994: pumping apparatus.
03.06.1904		Patent A.C.E Rateau & G. Sautter N°814804 : method of making turbine baldes.
31.12.1904		Patent n°US839318: Regulating apparatus for engines.
28.04.1905		Patent N°902001: automatic regulating device for fluide pressure apparatus.
20.06.1906		Patent N°RE12723: pumping apparatus.
20.11.1906		Patent N°1052172: Autmatic relief valve for fluid impelling apparatus.
25.12.1906		Patent N°US839320: Steam regenerative accumulator.
25.12.1906		Patent N°839319: steam regenerative accumulator.
14.04.1908		Patent N°884610: steam regenerator.
1911		Elected to the Institut de France.
1911		Poncelet Prix.
06.11.1917		Patent N°1375931: Pertaining to internal combustion aircraft motors.
1918		Elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
1918		Membre de l'Académie des sciences.
1918		Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur.
1920		Honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (London).
1922		The latter organization awarded him the Hawkesley Medal.
07.11.1922		Patent N°1471417: Means to maintain a suitable pressure in the liquid fuel storage tank of airplanes.
1925		Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1925. Honorary doctorates were conferred upon him by the universities of Louvain, Birmingham, and Wisconsin, and the Berlin Technische Hochschule.
† 13.01.1930	Neuilly-sur-Seine	morto

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		Industrializzazione, dal 1850 al 1920
		Razionalizzazione, dal 1920 al 1950

Letteratura

Considérations sur turbo-machines, et particulièrement sur les ventilateurs.
Autore: RATEAU, Auguste Camille Edmond
Pubblicato: 1892

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