Acknowledgements
We would like to express our thanks firstly to the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert Miller Trust for supporting this publication. Thanks are also due to the Newcomen Society: International Society for the History of Engineering and Technology, who supported the conference by helping to advertise the event, as well as providing speakers. Also to be thanked is Felicitas Starr-Egger who assisted us with our many technical problems while preparing this text. We are grateful to Stephanie Homer, too, for all her help, both technical and editorial. We would also like to thank our anonymous peer reviewer for his valuable feedback.