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
Union Steamship Company of British Columbia Northland Navigation in 1962. The line had a good safety record in an age before satellites and radar. The "Chehalis" sank off Brockton Point in 1913 with a loss of life; the "Cheslakee" capsized on Texada Island; and the "Comox" collided with a ship in fog in Malaspina Strait. It should be remembered that this is over 50 years and a service of dozens of ships. Union Steamship Company of British Columbia The Union Steamship Company of British Columbia was a pioneer firm on coastal British Columbia. It was founded in November 1889 by John Darling, a director of the