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IN an interesting and presidential address delivere to the institution of Mechanical Engineers on Oct.: Sir Henry Fowler paid a tribute to the help that mechanical engineering has received, in the solution of many of its most difficult problems, from the work of the man science. Particularly he attributed the remarkable changes that have taken place since Stephenson built the Rocket to new materials and the physical states in which they can be supplied; and in large measure these have been the outcome of scientific research. The whole profession of mechanical engineering is to-day dependent on metals. “Although many ingenious contrivances have been made from wood and stone, mechanical engineering only commenced when metals became available for use.”
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Alloys and their Importance in Engineering. Nature 120, 808–809 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120808a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120808a0