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THE JOURNAL

Vol 17 – No. 1 – 1936-37

CONTENTS

Pg vi – List of Officers of the Society

Pg x-xi – List of Illustrations

Pg 1 – The Heat Engine Idea in the Seventeenth Century – A Contribution to the History of the Steam Engine
By Rhys Jenkins (Vice President)

Pg 13 – Josiah Wedgwood as a Pioneer of Steam Power in the Pottery Industry
By John Thomas, M.A., D.Sc. (Member)

Pg 27 – Charles Auguste de Coulomb: A Bicentenary Appreciation of a Pioneer in the Science of Construction
By Stanley B. Hamilton, M.Sc., M.I.Struct.E. (Member of Council)

Pg 51 – The Society of Civil Engineers (Smeatonians)
By S.B. Donkin, V.P.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E. (Member)

Pg 73 – The Early Years of the Hydraulic Ram
By H.W. Dickinson (Past President)

Pg 85 – Joseph de MontGolfier et le Belier Hydraulique
Par Charles Cabanes, Ingenieur (Member)

Pg 91 – Notes on a Bygone Japanese  Craft, with Special Reference to Materials and Technique
By W.A. Young (Vice President)

Pg 109 – Notes on the Practical Development of the Oil Engine
By J.W. Young, M.I.Mech.E. (Member)

Pg 131 – The Steam Engine on Tyneside, 1715-1778
By Arthur Raistrick, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Member)

Pg 165 – Interchangeable Manufacture
By Prof. Joseph W. Roe (Member)

Pg 175 – Industries of Herefordshire in Bygone Times
By Rhys Jenkins (Past President)

Pg 191 – Summer Meeting in Herefordshire, 1937

NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS:

Pg 197 – Ancient Sussex Iron Blooms – A Metallographical Examination
By J.A. Smythe, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Pg 205 – “On Mills” 
By Thomas Telford, 1796. Edited by E. Lancaster Burne, A.M.Inst.C.E. (Member of Council)

Pg 215 – The Farey Diary, 1819
Annotated by Dr. Harrison W. Craver (Member); H.W. Dickinson (Past President) and Rhys Jenkins (Past President)

Pg 220 – Preparation of Woad in England
By Rex Wailes, M.I.Mech.E. (Member of Council)

Pg 221 – Analytical Bibliography of the History of Engineering and Technology. Continued from Vol XVI

Pg 232 – Annual Report and Statement of Accounts

Pg 239 – Obituaries: George Frederick Zimmer; Douglas Valentine Levien; George Freeman Tyas; Thomas Newcomen; William Henry Deakin

Pg 244 – List of Members

Index