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THE town of Leeds is this year the place of the summer meeting of the above institution. This meeting, which commenced last Tuesday, has brought together a large number of engineers from all parts, who received a cordial welcome from the Mayor and a local committee, and have already gone through the greater portion of a very interesting programme. The president's address, as well as the papers read in the mornings, not less than the varied nature of the works thrown open in the afternoons, show the increasing connection of the engineer with the progress of civilisation and the comforts of daily life. Perhaps no better example of this could be found than in the town of Leeds. It is not necessary, and certainly it would not be very easy, to detail all the varied productions of Leeds, in which the engineer now plays an indispensable part. One or two interesting instances may, however, be cited from one of two papers read, to show to what extent manual labour is being replaced by the application of machinery.
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S., H. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers . Nature 26, 375 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026375a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/026375a0