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MR. THURKILL COOKE is of course right in saying that I borrowed the title of my recent James Forrest Lecture from the Marquis of Worcester's well-known book. The title is so familiar in that connexion to students of engineering history that I imagined my audience did not need to be reminded of its origin. Mr. Cooke will find a reference to the original “Century of Inventions” in my book on “The Steam-Engine and other Heat Engines” (p. 4), where a brief sketch is attempted of early stages in the evolution of the steam-engine.
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EWING, J. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 122, 56 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122056c0
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