The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology, Volume 91, Issue 2 (2021)

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The hydraulic characteristics of Roman lead water pipes: An experimental investigation
Martin Crapper, Davide Motta, Coree Sinclair, Dominic Cole, Maria Monteleone, Adam Cosheril, Jonathan Tree & Andrew Parkin
Pages: 119-134
Published online: 11 Apr 2022
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Developing Early Iron Armour: The Development of Rolling as the Preferred Method of Manufacture Between 1854 and 1863
David Boursnell
Pages: 135-157
Published online: 29 Apr 2022
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Blood, sweat, and skins—and cement, and cinema, and searchlights: Carl Akeley’s adventures in inventing
Mark Alvey
Pages: 158-184
Published online: 16 Aug 2022
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John Smeaton and the Calder Navigation, with the Transcription of John Smeaton’s Journal 1760-1763 Detailing the Day-to-Day Work on the Navigation
By LESLEY TAYLOR and SHIRLEY LEVON. 228 pp., 62 b&w illustrations; 2 in colour. Wakefield: Wakefield Historical Papers, 2021. £19.95 [Pbk] ISBN 9780901869494
Victoria Owens
Pages: 185-187
Published online: 11 Jan 2022
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Scottish Agricultural Implement and Machine Makers: A Directory, Volume 1 (1843-1914)
By HEATHER HOLMES. Pp.lxvi & 918, 12 tables. Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society and Tanner Ritchie, 2020. £40 ISBN 978-0-902054-68-4
Jonathan Aylen
Pages: 188-190
Published online: 03 Feb 2022
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Chatham Historic Dockyard: World Power to Resurgence
Edited by Neil Cossons. 144pp. illust. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press for Historic England, 2021. £19.95 [Paperback]. ISBN 978-1-800085-949-4
Robert Thorne
Pages: 191-193
Published online: 11 Jan 2022
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Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
By DAVID K. STUMPF. Foreword by LIEUTENANT GENERAL JAY W. KELLEY, USAF (retd.). 592 pp, illustrated 132 images. Fayetteville: the University of Arkansas Press, 2020. $39.95 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-1-68226-154-5 (cloth); ISBN: 978-1-61075-735-5 (ebook)
Jonathan Aylen
Pages: 194-196
Published online: 10 Jan 2022
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The early east london gas industry: How it began and how it helped london industries to grow
By Mary mills. 316 pp, with numerous map illustrations. London: independently published, 2021. £15 (paperback). ISBN: 9798706528829
Peter Guillery
Pages: 197-198
Published online: 08 Apr 2022
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Technology, economics and canal development – an early technical book and what it reveals including a translation of instructions for the design and implementation of navigable canals by sebastian von maillard (1817). by MIKE CLARKE
240 pp., numerous b&w illustrations; 71 in colour; 9 maps; 10 tables. Market drayton: Railway and canal historical society, 2021. £25 (pbk). ISBN 9780901461711.
Victoria Owens
Pages: 199-201
Published online: 25 Apr 2022
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Scotland’s tall chimneys. By moses jenkins
56 pp, well illustrated with monochrome photographs. Stirling, Scotland: Pugmill press, 2021. £8.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-9196173-0-5
Robert Carr
Pages: 202-203
Published online: 25 Apr 2022
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Built in Britain: the independent locomotive manufacturing industry in the nineteenth century by Dr. Michael R. Bailey
MBE. Pp. 221, 197 illustrations. London: Railway and canal historical society, 2021. £30 [hardback]. ISBN 978-0-901461-70-4
Ron Fitzgerald
Pages: 204-210
Published online: 25 Apr 2022
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