Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,136 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

George Jendrassik

From Graces Guide

George Jendrassik (1898-1954) was a pioneering designer of gas turbines.

Born in Budapest

of Ganz and Co

1939 Description and illustrations of a combustion turbine designed by George Jendrassik and constructed by Mr. K. Arpay, of Budapest, with financial assistance provided by the Royal Hungarian Ministry for Industrial Affairs. The unit developed about 100 h.p. at 16,400 r.p.m. The turbine blading was of heat-resisting steel, and the compressor blading of aluminium. [1]

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