Non EFI - Turbo + Supercharger

Jim Davies jimd at vcc.bc.ca
Tue Sep 23 23:19:50 GMT 1997



On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Gary Derian wrote:

>  The first turbocharger installation I know of was a stationary powerplant
> diesel for Brown Boveri in Germany in 1905.
> 
I think the first supercharged gas engine was about '06 in an American car
(Thomas??) 

I think we can assume that turbosuperchargers were perfected in WW2
courtesy of General Electric, with much of the metallurgical advances
being made in the 1930s.

Jim Davies





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