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    Viktor Kaplan (27 November 1876 – 23 August 1934) was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Kaplan was born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria...
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    The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan, who combined...
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  • Polish pool player Valery Kaplan (born 1943), Soviet speed skater Viktor Kaplan, Austrian inventor of the Kaplan turbine Yıldız Kaplan, Turkish model and pop...
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    society. The following year, Lamarr's native Austria awarded her the Viktor Kaplan Medal of the Austrian Association of Patent Holders and Inventors. In...
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    Leobersdorf. Ing. Viktor Kaplan worked at the Leobersdorfer Maschinenfabrik from 1901 to 1903 and developed his idea of the Kaplan turbine there. "Dauersiedlungsraum...
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    Austrian engineer and locomotive designer. Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), engineer and inventor of the Kaplan turbine Claudio Arrau (1903–1991), Chilean pianist...
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  • considered the most important Czech medical discovery. Kaplan turbine was invented by Viktor Kaplan who obtained his first patent for an adjustable blade...
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    universities in the Czech Republic with over 20,000 students. Viktor Kaplan, inventor of the Kaplan turbine, spent nearly 30 years at the German Technical University...
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    time between failures of more than 1300 years. Around 1913, Viktor Kaplan created the Kaplan turbine, a propeller-type machine. It was an evolution of the...
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    Palisa, legal theorist Hans Kelsen, inventors Alois Senefelder and Viktor Kaplan, automotive designer Ferdinand Porsche, psychologist Max Wertheimer...
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