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S. Callander

James Clerk Maxwell [Lecture to the Society, 7th October, 2005]

Proceedings, Physics, History

TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 178(3.8 MB)

Abstract

Summary of a lecture given to the Society on 7th October, 2005. Scotland’s renowned Physicist and greatest Countryman, whose home was in Parton Parish, was born in Edinburgh. James Clerk Maxwell is well known to the scientific world but, shamefully, is
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Martin Allen

John Heathcoat’s Steam Plough

Technology, Agriculture

TDGNHAS Series III, 89 (2015), 123(4.65 MB)

Abstract

John Heathcoat was the inventor of a steam ploughing engine which he demonstrated on marshland near Dumfries in 1837. The organisers were disappointed with its performance, and thereafter it was believed that the machine had sunk into the marsh; but there is evidence against that account of its fate.