Notes on Contributors

Abstract

Sir Neil Cossons, OBE, FSA, FMA, CIEE, HonCRAeS, has spent most of his career in museums where his particular interests have been in industrial archaeology, transport and the history of technology. He was Curator of Technology at Bristol City Museum in the 1960s, the first Director of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, for 12 years from 1971, Director of the National Maritime Museum, and for 14 years down to his retirement in 2000 the Director of the Science Museum, London. He is now Chairman of English Heritage. He has been a member of the Newcomen Society since 1963 and is its immediate Past President.