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Show New Turbine Locomotive. After turl ne steamers, turblno locomotives. lo-comotives. Prof. Johann Stumpf of Charlottenbv , Germany, has sec ed patents on on adaptation of tho steam turbine to locomotives. Ha prop tea to divide the turblno Into stages, distributing dis-tributing ono on each driving a:, of the locomotive, and tho steam f im tho boiler to pass through the seve nl stages In recession. A turbine Is mounted on the axle on tho outside of each driving wheel. With three driving driv-ing axles tho steam Is conveyed by a plpo from t!o boiler to the first turbine tur-bine on the ono side, then to the other. oth-er. It Is then in succession conveyed to the threo turbines on the other bldo of tho locomotive, from the third of which the steam plpo leads tho exhaust ex-haust to the exhaust blast nozzle. |