Tesla's turbine is a 'clinic' in the principles of fluid dynamics, and will run using air or steam. There are no pistons involved, so the tolerances are not the 'close tolerance' machining work you would expect to encounter in, say, an automotive machine shop environment.

The plans are in Adobe Acrobat ('pdf') format, so you will need an Acrobat Reader utility to view them. If you do not already have such a utility, you can download Acrobat Reader on the internet. It's free, and easy to install.

This CD should be usable by any computer capable of reading PDF files. This would include all Windows machines beginning with Windows 95, the Mac, and Linux boxes. Because of the nature of such things, however, no guarantee of 'cross platform' usability is made.