Editing Centrifugal compressor (section)

=== Partial timeline of historical contributions===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Table 2.1
|-
| <1689
| Early turbomachines
| Pumps, blowers, fans
|-
| 1689
| Denis Papin
| Origin of the centrifugal compressor
|-
| 1754
| Leonhard Euler
| Euler's "Pump & Turbine" equation
|-
| 1791
| John Barber
| First gas turbine patent
|-
| 1899
| A. C. E. Rateau
| First practical centrifugal compressor
|-
| 1927
| Aurel Boleslav Stodola
| Formalized "slip factor"
|-
| 1928
| Adolf Busemann
| Derived "slip factor"
|-
| 1937
| Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain, independently
| First gas turbine using a centrifugal compressor
|-
| >1970
| Modern turbomachines
| 3D-CFD, rocket turbo-pumps, heart assist pumps, turbocharged fuel cells
|}