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The Newcomen Summer Meeting to the Solent 2010
Newcomen President Dr John Russell in Conversation with HRH The Duke of Gloucester on board HMS Warrior
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A Siemens Pacemaker
The first implantable pacemaker from 1958
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Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power station, built in the 1930s
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EDSAC
The first practical stored-program electronic computer
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859
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Ironbridge
The first arch bridge in the world to be made out of cast iron
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The Construction of Crystal Palace
Built in 1851 from cast iron and glass to house the Great Exhibition
(An engraving from Illustrated London News 1851. Image courtesy of Ironbridge Gorge Museum) -
A British-built Locomotive from the mid 20th Century
This example operated in Victoria, Australia
(Photograph by Michael Bailey)
Welcome to the Newcomen Website
Newcomen was founded in 1920. It is the oldest society in the world specialising in the history of engineering and technology and has published over a 1000 papers, an invaluable archive of original research material for historians. Newcomen takes its name from Thomas Newcomen(bap. 1664, d.1729), who invented the first practical working steam engine but its interests are broad and international, embracing all aspects of engineering from ancient times, through the great inventions of the 18th and 19th centuries to the sophisticated technologies of the 20th century and into the digital age.