Turbo Power Steam – Rocket meets Turbinia
The arrival of the Great North Exhibition has seen Stephenson’s Rocket return to Newcastle where it is on display at city’s Discovery Museum alongside Charles Parsons’ Turbinia . Rocket’s homecoming to the region where it was built also brings both residents of and visitors to Newcastle-upon-Tyne home to North East England’s contribution to industrial development. Speed pioneers on rails and water, Rocket and Turbinia at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne More than simply two speed pioneers for their respective modes of transport sat side-by-side, Rocke t and Turbinia also represent over 50 years of development in steam power, a development playing a huge part not just in transport, but also their contribution to shaping the modern world. Meanwhile, going a little deeper into trials and demonstrations from which these innovations came into being also opens us to how different the world we live in today could have been if certain ideas trialed back then were comm