Quarto, 299 pages, index, illustrated. Contains: Smith: 'Engines moved by fire and water' - the contribution by Fellows of the Royal Society to the development of steam power, 1675-1733; Griffiths: The Doxford Engine - its development and decline; Williamson: 'And now the weather' - the early development of the meteorological satellite; Andrew: The costs of eighteenth century steam engines; Clow: Pneumatic tube communication systems in London; Bolter: The Parsons-North British coal-burning gas turbine locomotive; Evans: The Maudslay touch - Henry Maudslay, product of the past and maker of the future; Chrimes: Hugh McIntosh (1768-1840), national contractor; Meade & Saint: The Marquis de Chabannes, pioneer of central heating and inventor; Johnson: Early research in linear induction motors for manufacturing machinery; Powell: The disappearance of horizontal watermills from Ireland; Newby: Samson's Fox's American venture and the development of the pressed steel railway vehicle; Clark: The