THIS latest volume of Transactions of the Newcomen Society is one of wide interest. The subjects dealt with range from chain pumps of the seventh century to the earliest locomotives in America; from ...

Technology tends to have a way of becoming smaller as it evolves. The ever-convenient microchip and lithium-ion battery serve in tandem as the brains of so many devices today, and their sleek and ...

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OF all the features which distinguish the present age from those of the past, none is more striking than that of the extended application of power to every need of man. The Egyptians, Greeks, and ...