NewcomEn.com
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Newcomen Society UK - home page
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How it started
The Society was founded in 1920. A number of senior engineers in industry, curators from London's Science Museum and members of the Patent Office joined together to form a society to promote, encourage and co-ordinate the study of the history of engineering and technology.
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 has always embraced the widest range of disciplines of engineering and technology, spanning from ancient civilizations to the computer age.
