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TRANSACTIONS OF THE NEWCOMEN SOCIETY

Vol 77 – No. 1 – 2007

CONTENTS

Pg 1 – The Hydraulics of Ancient Pipes and Pipelines
Dr Norman A.F. Smith

Pg 51 – Sir Douglas Strutt Galton (1822-1899) and the Administration of Victorian Engineering
Dr Denis Smith

Pg 69 – Ink Reservoir Writing Instruments 1905-2005
Jeremy M.R. Collingridge, Alan J. Hobbs, L. Graham Hogg, Stephen F. Hull, Dr Geoffrey E. Roe, Marc Van der Stricht and Dr Michael West

Pg 101 – Trevithick’s Circle
Prof. Nick Tyler

Pg 115 – The Cast Iron Beams at Kew Bridge Pumping Station – Faithful Friends or Fickle Enemies?
John Porter and John Loadman

Pg 133 – Corrigendum concerning Vol 76(2)

BOOK REVIEWS

Pg 135 – K.S.G. Hinde, Fenland Pumping Engines (Dr Barry M.J. Barton); Elizabeth M. Harris, Personal Impressions – The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-century America (Christopher Rule); Peter Wakelin, Blaenavon Ironworks and World Heritage Landscape (Barrie Trinder); John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England – Shropshire (Mike Chrimes)

Pg 139 – Notes on Contributors