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THIS latest volume of Transactions of the Newcomen Society is one of wide interest. The subjects dealt with range from chain pumps of the seventh century to the earliest locomotives in America; from the dynamics of Leonardo da Vinci to the bibliography of the history of engineering and applied science. As a frontispiece there is a reproduction of the earliest known print of a Newcomen engine. This print is not only the earliest drawing, but also the earliest document of any kind known showing the construction of the engine. The original by Henry Beighton was only recently discovered in the Library of Worcester College, Oxford, by Mr. L. de M. Johnson, of the Oxford University Press. Though in the Transactions the drawing has had to be folded, copies can be obtained unfolded, and we think this historical drawing should be exhibited wherever mechanical engineering is taught.
The Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology.
Transactions, Vol. 4, 1923–1924. Pp. xii + 153 + 21 plates. (London: Secretary, Newcomen Society, Science Museum, 1925.) 20s.
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The Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology . Nature 117, 298 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117298a0
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