Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2024
Date 23-Aug
Volume 233
Issue 4,750
Page 338
Category An Engineer's Day Out
Part
Title Newcastle upon Tyne - Engineering and Art
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes Finds a place where art meets engineering. Laing Art Gallery, Discovery Centre, J.M.W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, Newcastle castle gatehouse, railway station. Robert Stephenson and his work, High Level Bridge, High Level and other bridges, Tyne Bridge, the Swing Bridge, the Metro Bridge, Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society lecture theatre, Lord Armstrong and Hydraulic power, Joseph Swan and electric light, Charles Parsons and the steam turbine, Turbinia and the discovery museum, aircraft joystick, art industry and nostalgia, torsion dynamometer, Parsons turbine, shaping the keel plate of a corvette (Leslie Cole. 1942. Laing Art Gallery)