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THE summer meeting of the Newcomen Society was held in Cornwall on June 13-16. On arrival at Falmouth, which was its headquarters, the members were received by the Mayor, Alderman J. Harris, and other members of the Council, and in the Municipal Building in which the reception took place, Mr. W. T. Hooper, the borough librarian, had arranged an exhibition relating to Cornish engineers and engineering. The meeting was devoted almost entirely to excursions to mines, foundries, engine-houses, china-clay works and places of interest with engineering associations, such as the houses in which Watt, Boulton, Trevithick, the Hornblowers and others lived from time to time. On behalf of the Society, the president, Mr. H. W. Dickinson, laid a wreath on the statue of Trevithick in Camborne and at St. Gluvias Church, Penryn; Mr. Hooper gave a short account of the work of the Hornblower family, one of whom, Jonathan Hornblower, was a pioneer of the compound steam engine. Although in many parts of the county are still to be seen fine specimens of ‘Cornish’ engines, the extension of the ‘grid’ will soon lead to these falling into disuse, electrically driven pumps being particularly suited for much of the work.
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The Newcomen Society. Nature 132, 22 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132022d0
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