This is the first issue under my Editorship. It has been a steep learning curve but I would not have managed were it not for the guidance and the significant help of Roger Cline and Jonathan Aylen. I would like to thank them both for their kindness, patience and hard work.
An editor may be a useful cog but active authors are the life blood of a Journal. Therefore, my first duty is to encourage readers to consider submitting papers. I would also encourage readers to encourage their friends and colleagues to consider submitting papers.
One of the benefits of working in a long established university, in my case Trinity College Dublin, is that one has access to experts from a variety of disciplines. Thus, I was able to ask Professor Anna Chadoud, my College’s Chair of Latin, to give me an up-to-date translation of the Newcomen motto ‘Actorum memores simul affectamus agenda’, which she translated as ‘Mindful of what has been done we aim to achieve what has (yet) to be done’. This reading promotes the philosophy that the study of past technical achievement can inform the development of future technologies. I would like to give special encouragement to authors who believe they have evidence that the study of past achievements has relevance for the development of current and future technologies.
Editor