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In the News (Tue 15 Dec 09)

  
  BBC - History - Thomas Newcomen (1663 - 1729)
Newcomen was an ironmonger by profession, but made a significant contribution to the Industrial Revolution with his invention of the atmospheric steam engine.
Thomas Newcomen was born in Dartmouth, Devon in 1663 and established himself as an ironmonger in his home town.
Newcomen engines were extremely expensive but were nevertheless very successful.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/newcomen_thomas.shtml   (340 words)

  
 Newcomen Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Newcomen Society is a British learned society formed to foster the study of the history of engineering and technology (although British, it is interested in any aspect of the history of engineering, regardless of the location or time period).
The Society is based at the Science Museum in London (there are also regional branches in Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol and Portsmouth)), and is concerned with all branches of engineering: civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, aeronautical, marine, chemical and manufacturing as well as biography and invention.
An American branch was established in 1923, but the Newcomen Society of the United States is now entirely separate from its UK counterpart.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newcomen_Society   (212 words)

  
 University of New England - News - Newcomen Society Honors UNE
The Newcomen Society of the United States honored the University of New England and its president, Sandra Featherman, Ph.D., with the prestigious Newcomen Award, at an awards ceremony on Friday, May 5, 2006 at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland.
The Newcomen Society of the United States is a non-profit foundation that studies and supports outstanding achievement in American business and education.
The Newcomen award was established to recognize and celebrate American businesses and organizations that embody the same innovation and entrepreneurial spirit as its namesake, British inventor Thomas Newcomen.
www.une.edu /ur/news/newcomen.asp   (545 words)

  
 Newcomen Library & Museum -- Are We There Yet?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
We're sorry to announce that the Newcomen Museum is permanently closed, with all the fascinating steam equipment having been auctioned off.
Newcomen's invention caught on, and his engines soon dotted the countryside of England and Europe.
Visitors can see an entire range of fascinating equipment and models, from a 1735 Newcomen pumping engine to the stationary, marine, locomotive, and automotive steam engines of the early 20th century, and other models in between.
www.fieldtrip.com /pa/03636600.htm   (371 words)

  
 BBC - Devon Discovering Devon - Thomas Newcomen inventor of the atmospheric engine
Newcomen's invention enabled mines to be drained to greater depths than had previously been economically possible and so helped provide the coal, iron and other metals that were vital to the expansion of industry.
Newcomen's first working engine was installed at a coal mine at Dudley Castle in Staffordshire in 1712.
Animated illustration is used courtesy of the Newcomen Society of the United States.
www.bbc.co.uk /devon/discovering/famous/thomas_newcomen.shtml   (443 words)

  
 Walpole History of The Kendall Company
AMERICAN NEWCOMEN, through the years, has honored numerous industrial enterprises both in the United States of America and in Canada, and has paid tribute to those whose pioneer leadership has made possible the growth and development of what today are corporate organizations of reputation and importance.
This Newcomen Address, dealing with the history of The Kendall Company, on occasion of its 50th Anniversary (1903-1953), was delivered at the "1953 Massachusetts Dinner" of The Newcomen Society of England, held in Louis XIV Ballroom of Hotel Somerset, at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., when Mr.
This Newcomen address, dealing with the history of The Kendall Company and on occasion of its 50th Anniversary (1903-1953), was delivered at the "1953 Massachusetts Dinner" of The Newcomen Society of England, held at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on March 26, 1953.
www.walpole.ma.us /hpeoplekendall.htm   (4162 words)

  
 Steam Engines of the Eighteenth Century - Thomas Newcomen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thomas Newcomen who was born in 1663/4 at Dartmouth England was the inventor of the world’s first commercial steam engine.
Newcomen’s first engine was built in Staffordshire where it pumped 120 gallons of water each minute from a coal mine seam which was 150 feet below the surface.
The model was made by interpreting the known facts from this drawing and, with a close consultation with the Newcomen Society.
www.btinternet.com /~historical.engines/newcomen.htm   (311 words)

  
 Newcomen Society Transactions - Sir Joseph William Bazalgette
The paper entitled "Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819-1891): Engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works" by D P Smith is published in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 1986-87 Vol 58.
In his paper, Dr Smith describes the life and prodigious output of this "somewhat shadowy figure in Victorian engineering", who as Chief Engineer to the newly-formed Metropolitan Board of Works was responsible for a series of massive public engineering projects that have shaped London.
He is a Past President of the Newcomen Society.
www.newcomen.com /excerpts/bazalgette.htm   (776 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
Newcomen was the inventor of the early, pre-Watt, steam engine.
It seems clear that Newcomen's engine did not derive from any knowledge of contemporary scientific theories, but from familiarity with technical operations and practical needs, and from trial and error.
Muriel Hine, "The Pedigree of Thomas Newcomen, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 9 (1928-9), 105-8.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/newcomen.html   (488 words)

  
 Society
The principal object of the new society was to "collect tools and machinery formerly employed in the district of Sheffield which are now obsolete, or are likely to become obsolete, and to erect them as far as possible in a position similar to that in which they were originally used".
The Society for the Preservation of Old Sheffield Tools and Machinery was formed in 1933 with the object of preserving tools and equipment of former Sheffield craftsmen and to equip permanent industrial museums as a record of work done in former times.
The Society was given a tilt hammer by William Jessop which was mounted on a massive concrete foundation in the middle of the yard at Abbeydale.
www.topforge.co.uk /Magazines/Society.htm   (3762 words)

  
 Newcomen Society UK - more about us
It is named after Thomas Newcomen, the inventor and developer of the first practicable atmospheric steam engine.
Newcomen is a symbol of the great industrial movement which owed so much to the coming of steam power.
The Society is funded entirely by its subscription income, and by a number of kind bequests.
www.newcomen.com /about.htm   (370 words)

  
 Mississippi Business Journal
The Newcomen Society of the United States, named for Thomas Newcomen, “Father of the Industrial Revolution," was founded in 1923.
The Mississippi Committee of the Newcomen Society was organized in 1950 and since that time over 40 Mississippi firms and organizations have been honored by the Society.
These histories are distributed to Society members nationwide and to 3,300 public and private libraries, including the Library of Congress, to serve as a permanent archival reference for the study of American business history.
www.msbusiness.com /article.cfm?ID=1557   (399 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Newcomen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Newcomen, Thomas, 1663-1729, English inventor of an early atmospheric steam engine (c.1711).
While working at the Univ. of Glasgow as an instrument maker, Watt was asked to repair a model of Thomas Newcomen's steam engine.
King & Spalding LLP Earns Prestigious Newcomen Award for its Contributions to American Business and its Dedication to its Clients' Success; King & Spalding is First Law Firm in Georgia to Win the Award.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Newcomen   (319 words)

  
 In the News | Cellular South
JACKSON, MS — May 17, 2006 — The Newcomen Society of the United States honored Cellular South and its president Hu Meena, with the 2006 Newcomen Award, one of the most esteemed awards bestowed on American businesses, at an awards dinner held last night at the Hilton Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.
The Society, named for inventor Thomas Newcomen, often referred to as the "Father of the Industrial Revolution" is a publicly-supported, tax-exempt, educational foundation that studies and recognizes achievement in American business and the society it serves.
The Newcomen Society of the United States is a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt, educational foundation founded in 1923 for the study and recognition of achievement in American business.
www.cellularsouth.com /about/news2006/20060517.jsp   (587 words)

  
 Resources of Scholarly Societies - History
This is one of a set of subject pages in the Scholarly Societies Project, which facilitates access to websites of scholarly societies across the world.
Society for the History of Discoveries ["the discovery, exploration, and mapping of the earth's land and sea surface from earliest times to the present - the explorers and the explored."]
Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
www.lib.uwaterloo.ca /society/history_soc.html   (1446 words)

  
 Leibniz, Papin and the Steam Engine
According to the Royal Society myth, this sort of reasoning about the steam engine was not supposed to have occurred until about 1769, when James Watt recognized the problem of loss of force because of superfluous cooling of the steam, and invented a separate condenser.
The massive Royal Society attack against Leibniz on the false charge of plagiarism of the Calculus from Newton, which erupted in 1711, was a politically-motivated slander campaign designed to destroy Leibniz's influence in England.
Newcomen's engine was simply a scaled up atmospheric steam pump that was based completely on a combination of two of Papin's earlier ideas:(1) the use of steam to create a vacuum and drive a piston (1690); (2) the use of a lever mechanism to transmit power from one pump to another (1687).
members.tripod.com /~american_almanac/papin.htm   (8061 words)

  
 Introduction
It is particularly appropriate that the Newcomen society should begin its series of extra publications with a work so closely connected with the man from who the Society takes its name.
The account of the manner in which Newcomen was led to direct his attention to the problem of raising water from mines--that is to say he often visited the mines in the capacity of a dealer in iron tools--is interesting and likely to be correct.
Triewald makes the definite statement that Newcomen and Calley did join Savery to form a company; Triewald was in a position to be fully acquainted with the facts, so the statement carries some weight and it is consoling to think that Newcomen did have some share in the pecuniary rewards of his invention.
www.history.rochester.edu /steam/triewald/intro.html   (1196 words)

  
 The Newcomen Society of the United States - ABOUT OVERVIEW
The Newcomen Society of the United States is a non-profit business educational foundation that studies and supports outstanding achievement in American business.
They established the Newcomen Award to applaud American businesses and organizations that embodied the same innovation and entrepreneurial spirit that our namesake, inventor Thomas Newcomen, "the father of the industrial revolution," embraced.
By transcribing the timeless business principles Newcomen award recipients credited during their acceptance speeches, the Newcomen Society has amassed the largest archive of unique, first-person narratives available today.
www.newcomen.org /about_overview.php   (322 words)

  
 slim_iii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
    The Newcomen Society in North America is a voluntary association, with headquarters in Uwchlan Township, Chester County, within the fox-hunting countryside of Eastern Pennsylvania and 32 miles West of the City of Philadelphia.
Here also is located The Thomas Newcomen Library, a reference collection open for research and dealing with the subjects to which the Society devotes attention.
Members of American Newcomen, when in Europe, are invited by the Dartmouth Newcomen Association to visit the home of Thomas Newcomen at Dartmouth in South Devonshire, England, where the festival of “Newcomen Day” is celebrated each year on the anniversary, August 16th of his death.
home.pacbell.net /garyb/slim_iii.htm   (360 words)

  
 Press Room :: Golden Corral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James Maynard, Chairman and Co-founder, accepted the Newcomen Society Award on behalf of the more than 30,000 men and women at Golden Corral's corporate support center and 126 company-operated restaurants and 350 franchise restaurants.
The Newcomen Society of the United States is an educational foundation whose mission is the study and furtherance of the free enterprise system.
The Newcomen Society was founded in 1920 in London.
www.goldencorral.net /about/pressReleases/pr.asp?newsID=39   (206 words)

  
 Mr. Moore, Mr. McCormack and the Seven Seas!
When this Newcomen lectureship at the United States Coast Guard Academy was inaugurated some fifteen years ago, its primary purpose was to stimulate interest in the history of ocean commerce, maritime trade, and the best traditions of navigation upon the Seven Seas.
We have had Newcomen lecturers of distinction, all of them, yet the present lecture by Admiral Lee is typical of exactly the purposes of this well-known annual series.
Permission was granted by The Newcomen Society of the United States for this Address to be uploaded, and once it was typed, it was forwarded to The Newcomen Society for placing on their web site.
www.moore-mccormack.com /The-Company/Newcomen.htm   (7016 words)

  
 Newcomen Society UK - home page
is the world's oldest learned society devoted to the study of the history of engineering and technology.
The Society is based in London and is concerned with all branches of engineering: civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, aeronautical, marine, chemical and manufacturing.
Original research papers are given at regular evening meetings held at the Science Museum in London; these papers are subsequently published in the
www.newcomen.com   (151 words)

  
 The Rhodes-Milner Round Table
This mysterious society was to be exposed by authors of The Belmont Brotherhood in their book which never materialized, and there is scant information available elsewhere.
We have already posted two reports by Eric Samuelson about these societies, which have their origins in the Cecil Rhodes-Milner Round Table Group of Great Britain, which purpose was to reestablish the British Commonwealth of Nations and, ultimately, to bring the world under the domination of a restored British Empire.
The answer is partially found in the scandalous profiles of John Birch Society founders, as presented in The Belmont Brotherhood.
watch.pair.com /roundtable.html   (4578 words)

  
 3/30/2006 - The Newcomen Society Honors The Baylor School - Student Scene - Chattanoogan.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Newcomen Society of the United States honored the Baylor School; its president and headmaster, Mr.
Over 100 attendees gathered as The Newcomen Society, an 83-year-old non-profit business education foundation, recognized the Baylor School for its outstanding achievements and unwavering commitment to academic excellence.
Headquartered in Exton, Pa., the Society’s membership is comprised of many of the nation’s top leaders in business, industry, education, government and the military from such organizations as Amgen, Binswanger, Chemical Bank, Jones Day, and Motorola.
www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_82886.asp   (682 words)

  
 PRR Bibliography Item Description   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Newcomen Society of the United States was founded in 1923.
It is named for Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729), a British inventor of the first atmospheric steam engine.
The society studies the history of industry, transportation, communication, mining, agriculture, banking, insurance, medicine, education, invention, law, and related historical fields.
lib.sdstate.edu /PRR/Misc_PenroseCharles.html   (296 words)

  
 Transactions of the Newcomen Society
According to him it was due to a lucky accident coupled with unacknowledged borrowings from scientific sources to which Newcomen could never have had access.
Both this and the next paper formed part of the Society's George Stephenson: a Commemorative Symposium celebrating the 200th Anniversary of his birth.
In view of Duffy's critique (and of his dominance of the Society's papers in the 1980s and 1990s) there is a need to establish Duffy's credentials.
www.steamindex.com /magrack/newcomen.htm   (3653 words)

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