High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913 It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional turbine The Tesla turbine is also known as the boundary layer turbine, озожл cohesion-type turbine, and Prandtl layer turbine (after Ludwig Prandtl) Bioengineering researchers have referred to it as a multiple disk centrifugal pump One of Tesla?s desires for implementation of this turbine was for geothermal power, which was described in "Our Future Motive Power".  Форма для2010 г Мягкая обложка, 144 стр ISBN 6130350643.