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VOL. 8 of the Transactions of the Newcomen Society contains ten papers read during the winter 1927–28 and during the summer meeting of the latter year at Stourbridge; two notes and communications; a subject list of books and pamphlets relating to the history of technology, 1926–30; a list of members; the annual report, and 23 finely produced plates. As usual, the range of subjects is a wide one, the papers iucluding those of Mr. E. W. Anderson on the development of the organ; of Mr. T. Rowatt on railway brakes; of Mr. J. E. Hodgson on James Sadler of Oxford, and of Mr. J. W. Hall on the making and rolling of iron.
The Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology.
Transactions, Vol. 8, 1927–1928. Pp. xi + 196 + 23 plates. (London: The Newcomen Society, 1929.) 20s.
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The Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology . Nature 127, 161 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127161a0
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