development of water turbines...by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler and his son Albert in the 1750s found application about 75 years later. In 1826 Jean-Victor Poncelet of France proposed the idea of an inward-flowing radial turbine, the direct precursor of the modern water turbine. This machine had a vertical spindle and a runner with curved blades that was fully enclosed. Water entered radially inward and...
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