Pub Date : 2021-04-30DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2021.1914530
R. Thorne
Amidst the plethora of finely-crafted, specialized studies published every year it is sometimes a relief to encounter a book which dares to present a sweeping analysis across the centuries. Such bo...
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Pub Date : 2021-04-30DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2021.1915104
Nina Baker
Here is another book from an author well-known to Newcomen Society members from her various pieces in Links and elsewhere. Mary Mills is the expert on the industrial history of this largely ignored...
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Pub Date : 2021-04-30DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2021.1915103
Nina Baker
The author of this new biography of Lady Charlotte Guest will be well-known to many Newcomen Society members, as she has given a number of papers to the Society as well as publishing other books of...
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Pub Date : 2021-04-30DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2021.1915105
Nina Baker
Probably many members of the public, even if not very interested in the history of technology, are aware that many of Nazi Germany’s aerospace experts were recruited to the USA’s rocket programme a...
可能许多公众，即使对科技史不太感兴趣，也知道许多纳粹德国的航空航天专家被招募到美国的火箭计划…
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2021.1979905
B. Lawton
Windmills were developed to a high degree between their initial European use in the twelfth century and the twentieth century when mathematical analysis was first applied to optimise the design of their sails. It led immediately to the concept of twisted sails in which the weather angle decreased with radius. Various theories were tested experimentally by Smeaton, who found twisted sails to be better than common sails but less good than the Dutch sails then normally used. A century passed before Rankine applied Newton’s laws of motion to derive their power and efficiency (power coefficient). Annular windmills were developed in both Britain and the United States where they were extensively tested by Perry, who found them as efficient as Smeaton’s sails. In the twentieth century, Lanchester, Betz, and Joukowski independently derived an upper limit for windmill power coefficient and this, combined with aerodynamic theory and streamlined aerofoils led to the development of the modern wind turbine.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2021.1979906
Bill Addis
pit closures and other fundamental changes to the lives of miners and whole mining communities. Although academic in style, these interviews not only lighten the read but inform in a way no amount of theoretical context can do. I can recommend this book to anyone interested in how workers, resources, politics and technology interact. Although not a book much concerned with the technology of mining as such, the very significant changes in coal mining methods in the post-war period from pick and shovel to highly mechanised systems, were the backdrop against which everyone concerned was making decisions.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2021.1985391
B. Addis
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2021.1985389
Robert Gwynne
This paper asks why was Britain slow to adopt diesel and electric traction on its railways. The management of Britain’s railways were aware of technical developments in electrification and diesel traction from the start. Advocates of electrification ranged across the rail industry and the UK had diesel pioneers such as the Armstrong Whitworth Company. British owned railway companies and equipment suppliers successfully pursued electrification overseas. Nevertheless, Britain’s domestic railways in the main stuck with steam until labour and coal shortages prompted change after nationalisation following WW2. Insufficient capital explains the reluctance to electrify during the inter-war period once the advantages became obvious, although Southern made considerable progress on its commuter routes into London. Britain’s railways remained ‘tooled-up’ for steam and locked into a labour intensive, coal using technology into the 1960’s. Fuel requirements for the Royal Navy set Britain on a twentieth century trajectory of oil use, a change that slowly fed into the rail industry once diesel technology became reliable.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2021.1915107
M. Bailey
There have been several books written about the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, the world’s first inter-urban railway, dealing with its design, construction, and its locomotives, including the Rain...
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2021.1915106
Nina Baker
I would probably never even have thought to go looking for this book if I had not stumbled across some amazing images from the Skinner’s Union company’s archives on social media. My personal intere...
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