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 Thames (steamship) her boilers). The crew refused Wiggins's proffered schooner as unsafe and returned with him to Yeniseysk and thence home overland. In 2016, the wreck of "The Thames" was found in the Yenisei River by Nikolay Karelin and Alexander Goncharov, researchers from Siberian State Aerospace University sponsored by the Russian Geographical Society and the Russian Fund for the Humanities. The Thames (steamship) The Thames was a British steamship lost in 1877 while exploring the western part of the northeast passage (the sea route east from Europe to northern Russia and East Asia which runs north of Siberia). With financial backing from