Abstract
On November 3, 1937, the American Newcomen Society made its annual pilgrimage to Annapolis, Maryland, to visit a historic old town where every street and building remind us of their presence long ago at the birth‐throes of a nation.The Newcomen Society of Great Britain has for many years dedicated itself to the study of engineering history in England, and its off‐shoot in this country carries on the tradition here. On both sides of the Atlantic, the rosters of membership include a most distinguished and representative group of business and professional men whose hobby it is to trace down the obscure trails of engineering development in every line.The objective of the Society's pilgrimage this year was primarily a Naval study so that the visit was made to see the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. During the visit, the Chief Engineer of the Navy, Admiral Bowen, delivered the principal address, discussing Naval engineering development over the last one hundred years. The subject matter is of so much interest to every member of the Society of Naval Engineers, and so provocative to all students of naval and marine engineering history, that it has been printed here in full with the kind permission of the Newcomen Society, and of the author—the prospective next President of this Society.
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