It was developed in 1913 by Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan, who combined automatically adjusted propeller blades with automatically adjusted wicket gates to achieve efficiency over a wide range of flow and water level.
Razvio ju je 1913. austrijski profesor Viktor Kaplan, koji je kombinovao automatsko podešavanje lopatica propelera sa automatskim podešavanjem vratanaca da bi se dostigla efikasnost na širokom opsegu protoka i nivoa vode.