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What if in June of 1897 Kaiser Wilhelm II, was so taken with Charles Algernon Parsons, unexpected demonstration at queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee that he sought out who was responsible.
Kaiser Wilhelm II was fascinated with the demonstration and sought out Charles Parsons.
A couple of weeks later Parsons and his steam turbine company got their first major sponsor in the German Kaiser.
In Germany several weeks later Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered that no further ships were to be built unless they were powered by the steam turbine.
A young konteradmiral by the name of Alfred Tirpitz attracted the attention of the Kaiser.
Using the knowledge that the Kaiser was fascinated with the steam turbine Tirpitz campaigned for a greatly enlarges fleet and was successful.
The steam turbine allowed the ships to have cleaner designs which Tirpitz used to create monocalibre turreted vessels.
The space saving of the steam turbines allowed more turrets to be fitted and fitted along the centre line of the vessels.
Thus first modern dreadnoughts wee created in 1901.