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) edition of "The British Film Catalogue". However, the film historian John Barnes, in his book-length study of the year 1897 in British film, concluded that the title referred to a Méliès film that had been referenced in England since May of that year. Méliès's 1897 film "Le Château hanté" was indeed released in Britain as "The Haunted Castle". (A slightly earlier film of his, "Le Manoir du diable", made in the winter of 1896–7, is also known as "The Haunted Castle" after its American release title.) The Haunted Castle (1897 British film) The Haunted Castle is a hypothetical lost 1897