Turbine waterwheels. Gas, steam, and water turbines have a casing around the blades that contains and controls the working fluid. Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to Anglo-Irish engineer Sir Charles Parsons (1854–1931) for invention of the reaction turbine, and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval (1845–1913) for invention of the impulse turbine. Modern steam turbines frequently employ both reaction and impulse in the same unit, typically varying the degree of reaction and impulse from the blade root to its periphery. The word "turbine" was coined in 1822 by the French mining engineer Claude Burdin from the
Camosun (steamship) captain failed to give the order to reduce speed in time, and so "Camosun" crashed through a dock at the Rivers Inlet cannery, going right up into the cannery building itself. In 1935 "Camosun" was sold for scrap. Camosun (steamship) Camosun was a steamship built in 1904 in Paisley, Scotland which served in British Columbia. "Camosun" was the first passenger-freighter ship ordered by the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia. The vessel was intended to compete against the ships of two rival concerns, of the Canadian Pacific, and and of the Boscowitz Company. Construction on the vessel began in the