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THE JOURNAL

Vol 42 – No. 1 – 1969-70

CONTENTS

Pg iv – The Newcomen Society, Origin, Aims and Objects

Pg v – Presidents of the Society

Pg vi – Officers and Council, 1969-70

Pg xi – List of Illustrations

Pg 1 – Tramroads of the Eighteenth Century and their Originator, John Curr
R.A. Mott, D.Sc., F.R.I.C., F.Inst.F. (Member)

Pg 25 – The Development of Coal Mine Ventilation in Great Britain up to the End of the Nineteenth Century
Professor F.B. Hinsley, D.Sc., C.Eng., F.I.Min.E., F.Inst.F.

Pg 41 – I.K. Brunel and the Port of Bristol
R.A. Buchanan, M.A., Ph.D., (Member of Council)

Pg 57 – The Story of Submarine Cables
R.J. Halsey, C.M.G., B.Sc. (Eng), F.C.G.I., F.I.C., C.Eng., F.I.E.E.

Pg 75 – The Great Eastern Railway’s “1500 Class” Locomotives
W.O. Skeat, B.Sc. (Eng), F.I.Mech.E., Hon. M.I.W.E. (Member)

Pg 107 – Brunelleschi’s Dome of S. Maria del Fiore and some Related Structures
Rowland J. Mainstone, M.Eng., C.Eng., M.I.C.E., F.R.S.A. (Member)

Pg 127 – Windmills and Steam Power in Barbados
Rex Wailes, F.S.A., C.Eng., F.I.Mech.E. (Past-President)

Pg 149 – Ninth Dickinson Biennial Memorial Lecture: The History of the History of Engineering
L.T.C. Rolt, Hon. M.A., F.R.S.L., C.I.Mech.E. (Vice-President)

Pg 159 – The First Concrete Arch Bridge. Extract from “The Railway Gazette”

Pg 161 – Summer Meeting in Birmingham, 1970
J.G.B. Hills, B.Sc (Eng), M.I.Mech.E. and J.W.C. Butler (Members of Council)

Pg 169 – The Introduction of the Newcomen Engine from 1700-1733
J.S. Allen, F.I.C.E., F.Weld.I. (Member of Council)