Gas turbine locomotive turbine locomotive to be used on British Railways. The locomotive was to be built by the North British Locomotive Company and the turbine would be supplied by C. A. Parsons and Company. According to Sampson, the plan was to use indirect heating. The pulverized coal would be burned in a combustion chamber and the hot gases passed to a heat exchanger. Here, the heat would be transferred to a separate body of compressed air which would power the turbine. Essentially, it would have been a hot air engine using a turbine instead of a piston. Robertson shows a diagram which
Hedwig von Wissmann (steamship) 9 February 1916 at 11h50 in the Battle for Lake Tanganyika including and . German casualties were engineer and two native stokers killed in the engine room; a warrant officer and some natives killed and a European stoker and native seaman slightly wounded when two of the ships boats were hit by shells. Twelve Europeans, including the captain Job Odebrecht, and eight natives were captured by the British. Hedwig von Wissmann (steamship) The Hedwig von Wissmann was a German steamboat on Lake Tanganyika, which became a feature in the story behind the film "The African Queen". She was sister vessel