Steam turbine steam jacks. In 1672 an impulse steam turbine driven car was designed by Ferdinand Verbiest. A more modern version of this car was produced some time in the late 18th century by an unknown German mechanic. In 1775 at Soho James Watt designed a reaction turbine that was put to work there. In 1827 the Frenchmen Real and Pichon patented and constructed a compound impulse turbine. The modern steam turbine was invented in 1884 by Sir Charles Parsons, whose first model was connected to a dynamo that generated 7.5 kW (10 hp) of electricity. The invention of Parsons' steam turbine
Camosun (steamship) 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 spring of 1904 at the Bow McLachlan & Co. shipyard in Paisley, Scotland. Later it was said that construction on "Camosun" had begun with the objective of completing a tugboat for service on the Hooghly River in India,