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During his senior year at Harvard College, Manning won the Newcomen Prize for Best Senior Thesis in Material History. He said he wrote about the connection between the development of industrial policy in England during the Great Depression and the adoption of tariffs...
...nation's leading satirist later confessed, he was not quite sure why he had been honored. Novelist Marquand might have wondered still more if he had turned his satiric eye on the group which honored him, and which he had joined only shortly before. Its name: the Newcomen Society of England in North America...
...land of Eagles, Elks and Lions, the American Newcomen Society is an odd specimen. It probably has the largest and most lustrous roster of big business names in the U.S. Among its 12,200 mem bers are the presidents of all the railroads running into the New York area, the chair men of most of Manhattan's large banks, the nation's top leaders in oil, aluminum, steel, rubber, advertising and almost all other industries...
Barnum & Canterbury. The American Newcomen Society in its present state is the creation of Charles Penrose,* 66, the dynamic member of a Philadelphia engineering firm who has been described as a combination of P. T. Barnum and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The society was originally started in England in 1920 as a technical group commemorating Thomas Newcomen, father of the steam engine. An American branch was soon launched by the late Leonor F. Loree, longtime dean of American railroad presidents. Penrose, a close friend of Loree's, was a charter member...
...promise of level four culture is practically costless power. There have been guesses about how it might be used: in air-conditioning cities, freshening seawater for irrigating deserts, blasting away mountain ranges. But atomic technology is still too new to furnish any guides for guessing. When the first crude Newcomen steam engines began pumping out British coal mines in 1711, no one could have imagined how they would transform society. One way to help in the projection of the atomic age is to compare present-day life with that of driven Egyptian slaves or verminous medieval peasants. Descendants of present...
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