Abstract
In technology as well as in science the value of a knowledge of the history belonging to a given subject is gaining recognition. One result of the celebration at Birmingham of the centenary of James Watt in 1919 was the formation, by a few engineers interested in historical research, of the Newcomen Society, and the first volume of the society's Transactions has recently been issued. As indicated in its sub-title, the object of the society is to encourage the study of the history of engineering and technology, and it is, we believe, the first society formed for such a purpose. It takes its name from Thomas Newcomen (1663–1729), the Dartmouth blacksmith to whom we owe the atmospheric steam-engine. The honorary secretary and treasurer of the society is Mr. H. W. Dickinson, of the Science Museum, South Kensington.
The Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology.
Transactions, Vol. 1, 1920–1921. Pp. 88 + 18 Plates. (London: The Newcomen Society, 1922.) 20s.
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The Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology . Nature 110, 409–410 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110409b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110409b0
