Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1920 — Miracle of Ingenuity. [ARTICLE]

Miracle of Ingenuity.

The air turbine of L T. Nedland, a North Dakota artisan, is less than onetwentieth of an inch in diameter and weighs only one-fifth of a .grain troy. It has eight parts, the casing being of gold and the motor of steel. The motor, which has six slots, has a diameter of 0.032 inch; the shaft, 0.007 inch. Mounted on a hollow pedestal the turbine is driven at a high rate of speed by a Jet of compressed air entering at the bottom. This seems to be the tiniest of all motors, being smaller than the same maker’s electric motor and steam engine, each of which is reputed to be the smallest machine of the kind in the world.