Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1840946
M. Bailey
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1840954
S. K. Jones
{"title":"The Barry Railway: Its Docks & Successors","authors":"S. K. Jones","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2020.1840954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2020.1840954","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131846363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1840951
David Williams
{"title":"The Factory That Became a Village: The History of the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock","authors":"David Williams","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2020.1840951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2020.1840951","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127182572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1840947
C. Ellam
{"title":"Adventures in Aeronautical Design: The Life of Hilda M. Lyon","authors":"C. Ellam","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2020.1840947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2020.1840947","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127704627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1840953
R. Carr
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1840949
D. Eaton
{"title":"Innovation in the Design of Scientific Instruments in the Georgian Era: The Role of the Society of Arts","authors":"D. Eaton","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2020.1840949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2020.1840949","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117134335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1797446
James Mills
During World War II, the German military-industrial complex under the national socialist regime made pioneering strides in the development of aircraft armaments for the Luftwaffe. Through the application of scientific knowledge in the fields of mechanical and electrical engineering, ballistics, aerodynamics, and rocket propulsion, German armaments manufacturers evolved aircraft cannon technology to the automatic revolving aircraft cannon, to small unguided solid propellant rockets, and by 1945 Germany was on the threshold of starting series production of the world’s first guided air-to-air missile system. Towards the conclusion of the war in Europe and in the months afterwards, the four occupying powers produced scientific and technical intelligence on these developments for the purpose of exploitation. This article provides previously unpublished details about these activities by the Western Allies – the United States, United Kingdom and France – historical events which have traditionally been overshadowed by the Allies’ transfer and exploitation of other German guided weapons, such as the V-1 and the V-2.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1840950
Robert Gwynne
What we have here is a very unusual study of two fami l iar but fascinating Victorians: Ada, Countess of Lovelace, famous in her l i fetime as Lord Byron’s daughter, but a lso a second-generation mathematical enthus iast on her mother’s s ide; and Charles Babbage, economist, engineer, and zealous scienti fic reformer. One of Babbage’s pass ions was des igning huge cogwheel-driven machines to process numbers by steam power: his Analytical Engine, had i t been bui l t, would have had most of the features of a multi -purpose programmable computer. Lovelace, his friend and col laborator, trans lated a French-language description of the planned Engine and publ ished i t in 1842 with a contribution of her own: officia l ly just a set of ‘Notes’ to the trans lation, Lovelace’s piece added far more detai l , giving the reading publ ic a clear description of what we would now cal l programming, and an elegant account of the new fields of enquiry which the machine might open up. Yet the project, though never entirely forgotten, had l i ttle or no influence on the computers which achieved the same goals us ing high-speed electronics in the 1940s. Nonetheless , as smal ler, faster and cheaper machines reached into every area of twentieth-century l i fe, fi rst Babbage and then Lovelace gained a new prominence as early vis ionaries of the computer revolution.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1797445
Richard Williams
John Baildon, an Anglo-Scot little known in his home country, had a hand in introducing almost all the British 18th century iron developments into what became Germany. First employed in an advisory/design role by the Prussian State in Upper Silesia, when he helped introduce coke smelting in blast furnaces, cast iron bridges, cannon manufacture, canal infrastructure and steam engine building, he subsequently went on to partner industrial magnates in iron making and then to develop manufacturing plant in his own right, including very early muffle-furnace zinc smelting and puddling. He became a wealthy man, married well and lived in the upper reaches of Silesian society. His work led to Upper Silesia being at the forefront of the introduction of the industrial revolution to the German lands.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1797447
J. Agnew
A new law, enacted in 1861, regulated traction engine use on British roads: setting speed limits and introducing a mechanism for imposing ‘Banning Orders’. People opposed to engine danger or nuisance could apply to government for a daytime ban covering roads in their area. From 1862, Banning Orders increasingly handicapped work with ‘agricultural locomotives’. A ‘self-propelling engine’ used for ploughing could not even travel in daytime by road from one field to another where a ban was operative. Campaigning and lobbying brought about legislative change. A new, 1865, law cut speed limits further and combatted engine ‘nuisance’ by requiring a person to walk sixty yards in advance, carrying a red flag to warn of the engine’s approach. The advance lookout was also to signal the engine to stop whenever alarm to horses on the road looked likely. In its time a sensible precautionary measure or an obstacle to technological progress?
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