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
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