High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gustaf de Laval was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and dairy machinery. De Laval was born at Orsa in Dalarna. He enrolled at the Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1863, receiving a degree in mechanical engineering in 1866, after which he matriculated at Uppsala University in 1867, completing a doctorate in chemistry in 1872. In 1882 he introduced his concept of an impulse steam turbine and in 1887 built a small steam turbine to demonstrate that such devices could be constructed on that scale. In 1890 Laval developed a nozzle to increase the steam jet to supersonic speed, working off the kinetic energy of the steam, rather than its pressure. The nozzle, now known as a de Laval nozzle, is used in modern rocket engine nozzles.

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