Tesla turbine at Nikola Tesla Museum The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913.[1] It functions as nozzles apply a moving fluid to the edges of a set of discs. The engine uses smooth discs rotating in a chamber to generate rotational movement due to the momentum exchange between the fluid and the discs. The discs are arranged in an orientation simil
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