Description

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

Vol 86 – No. 2 – July 2016

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Pg 123 – Dermot O’Dwyer

ARTICLES

Pg 124 – William Richards and the Unrecorded Success Abroad: A British Engineer in the Spanish Gas Industry in the Nineteenth Century
Florentino Moyano Jiménez and Russell Thomas

Pg 147 – Scottish Pioneers of Tools for Low Temperature Geothermal Applications: William Cullen, the Stirling Brothers and William Rankine
David Banks

Pg 161 – From the Greenhouse into the Fighter Bomber: How ‘Metal Paper’ became the World’s Thermal Insulator
Andreas T. Haka

Pg 178 – Electric Motors in Sao Paulo, Brazil 1900-1950
Jose Luiz P. Costa Dias

Pg 213 – The Development of the Octane Number Tests and their Impact on Automotive Fuels and American Society
Vikram Mittal

Pg 228 – Empiricism Afloat – Testing Steamboat Efficiency: Boulton Watt & Co. 1804-1830
Jennifer Tann and Christine MacLeod

COMMENT

Pg 244 – German Aircraft Design during the Third Reich by A.D. Harvey: Comment
Fred Starr

BOOK REVIEWS

Pg 248 – Christopher Herwig, Soviet Bus Stops (Robert Carr); Josephine Kane, The Architecture of Pleasure: British Amusement Parks 1900-1939 (Robert Carr)

Pg 253 – INDEX