Author: L R Day (Ed)
Title: Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the study of the history of Engineering & Technology. Vol. 70, no. 2 - 1998-99
Description: The Newcomen Society, London, 1999. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. ISSN 0372-0187 Clean covers with slightly sunned spine. Sound binding. Clean pages. Contents include: 'the civil engineer's talent' - Michael Faraday, science, engineering and the English lighthouse service, 1836-1865, by Frank A J L James; Richard Cail (1812-1893) - Victorian contractor and man of many parts, by R W Rennison; The 23rd Dickinson Memorial Lecture - Diversity & Diffusion - the transfer of technologies in the industrial Age, by Prof Robert Fox; The transition from timber to cast iron working beams for steam engines - a technological innovation, by James Andrew, Jenny Stein, Jennifer Tann & Christine Macleod; Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills - 'The Old Establishment', by Brenda J Buchanan; Horizontal mills in mediaeval Ireland, by Colin Rynne; The rocket fighter Shusui - as redeveloped from incomplete and vague Me163B data, by T Yokoyama, K Yuyama, I Akojima & S Moriya; Book reviews. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 02617011225. ISBN: 0952054531

Keywords: BZDB4 engineering, technology, British history, inventions Engineering and Technology; British History; Science. L R Day (Ed) Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the study of the history of Engineering & Technology. Vol. 70, no. 2 - 1998-99 British H


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