The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology, Volume 91, Issue 1 (2021)

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Sticking with steam – why Britain’s railways stayed loyal to Georgian technology into the ‘space age’
Robert Gwynne
Pages: 1-26
Published online: 30 Nov 2021
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Alfred Fletcher’s campaign for black smoke abatement, 1864–96: Anticipating the 1956 Clean Air Act
Peter Reed
Pages: 27-48
Published online: 26 Oct 2021
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From tissue paper screens to radar screens: some episodes in the development of ballistic testing methods
N. C. Baker
Pages: 49-63
Published online: 17 Sep 2021
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Medieval windmills to wind turbines: a history of theory and experiment
Bryan Lawton
Pages: 64-97
Published online: 11 Oct 2021
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Skinner’s Union. A History of the Skinner Family and the S.U. Company
By Mike Harvey. 311+ xiv pp. £20 Hardback with dustcover. Salisbury: S.U. Carburetter Co., 2015. ISBN 978 0 9934234 0 6.
Nina Baker
Pages: 98-100
Published online: 30 Apr 2021
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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway: An Operating History
By Anthony Dawson. 246 pp., illustrated in colour. Barnsley and Philadelphia: Pen & Sword Transport, 2020. £25 (HB). ISBN 9781473899124
Michael R. Bailey
Pages: 101-102
Published online: 30 Apr 2021
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Revolutions in time: the world of Louis Essen, clockmaker and father of atomic time
By Ray Essen. Pp 444 with glossary and sources. Available from amazon, 2020. £9.99 (paperback) or on kindle £4.99. ISBN 979 8 56477 890 9
Douglas Bateman
Pages: 103-105
Published online: 07 May 2021
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Coal country: the meaning and memory of deindustrialization in postwar Scotland
Nina Baker
Pages: 105-107
Published online: 17 Sep 2021
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Gerüste Und Hilfskonstruktionen Im Historischen Baubetrieb: Geheimnisse Der Bautechnikgeschichte. (Scaffolding and Auxiliary Constructions in Historical Building Operations: Secrets of Construction History)
By Stefan Holzer (in German). 470 pp., 450 illustrations in colour and black and white. Berlin: Ernst und Sohn, 2021. 79€ (Hardback). ISBN 978-84-9728-587-2
Bill Addis
Pages: 107-110
Published online: 05 Oct 2021
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Canterbury & whitstable railway INVICTA locomotive – an assessment of its history and modifications through archaeological and archival study
By Michael R bailey and Peter H Davidson. 120pp, over 200 illustrations and drawings. Whitstable: Whitstable community museum and gallery, 2020. £18 plus £5 postage and packing from whitstable community museum. ISBN 978-1-8383317-1-9
Anthony Coulls
Pages: 110-112
Published online: 06 Dec 2021
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Brick vaults and beyond: the transformation of a historical structural system from 1750 to 1970
Edited by paula fuentes and ine wouters. In english. 487 pages, 158 figures and 92 full-page plates (in colour and black and white). Madrid: Instituto juan de Herrera, 2021. 25€(softback). ISBN: 978-84-9728-587-2
Bill Addis
Pages: 113-116
Published online: 15 Oct 2021
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Art and industry: Seven artists in search of an industrial revolution in Britain (1780–1830)
By David Stacey. Pp 176, 33 illustrations. London: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2021. £25 (paperback). ISBN 9781913491291
Robert Carr
Pages: 116-118
Published online: 03 Nov 2021
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