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
The Haunted Castle (1897 British film) The Haunted Castle (1897 British film) The Haunted Castle is a hypothetical lost 1897 British film, attributed in some filmographies to the British film pioneer George Albert Smith, but which may be a misidentification of a French film by Georges Méliès. Many of Smith's films show an interest in supernatural themes, such as "Photographing a Ghost" (1898), "The Haunted Picture Gallery" (1899), and his major short comedy "Mary Jane's Mishap" (1903); he also filmed a version of the Faust legend. A film called "The Haunted Castle", supposedly released by Smith in December 1897, was attributed to him in the 1973