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Article: Wild blue yonder: after more than 50 years of intense research, designers are still pushing the gas turbine to new heights of performance.
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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The first time ASME sponsored a conference featuring gas turbine technical papers, only two papers were submitted. It was understandable. The gas turbine had been invented only five years earlier and, thanks to wartime restrictions, travel to the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa, Okla., was not exactly easy. Even so, the May 1944 event--the 17th National Oil and Gas Power Conference--caught the attention of this magazine, which reported: "Demonstrating the technical interest aroused by the gas turbine, first new prime mover in 50 years, a capacity crowd of approximately 250 attended the first technical session which was devoted to that subject."
At this meeting, R. Tom Sawyer ...