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SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENTS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DURING THE
LAST HALF-CENTURY.[1]
[Footnote 1: Paper read in Section G (Mechanical) of the British
Association.]
By SIR FREDERICK BRAMWELL, V.P. Inst. C.E., F.R.S.,
Chairman of the Council of the Society of Arts.
I am quite sure the section will agree with me in thinking it was very
fortunate for us, and for science generally, that our president
refrained from occupying the time of the section by a retrospect, and
devoted himself, in that lucid and clear address with which he favored
us, to the consideration of certain scientific matters connected with
engineering, and to the foreshadowing of the directions in which he
believes it possible that further improvements may be sought for. But
I think it is desirable that some one should give to this section a
record, even although it must be but a brief and an imperfect one, of
certain of the improvements that have been made, and of some of the
progress that has taken place, during the last fifty years, in the
practical application of mechanical science, with which science and
its applications our section is particularly connected. I regret to
say that, like most of the gentlemen who sat on this platform
yesterday, who, I think, were, without exception, past presidents of
the section, I am old enough to give this record from personal
experience.
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