Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading what you provided and learning
more about these things. I saw a de Laval cream separator on my family's
farm in New Hampshire over 50 years ago, and maybe I got fascinated by
the name. But I'm impressed with the sophistication of de Laval's (and
others') engineering on steam turbines in the late 19th century. They
were really pushing the envelope.

Ed, further to our correspondence, I've uploaded a spreadsheet listing of
Model Engineer references to model steam turbines to:
http://www.box.net/shared/mx1qds1uhc

Now THAT should keep you busy for the weekend. Hope you have access to a
library with old MEs.

Mike in BC
P.S. Why don't the present publishers, who seem to have a predilection
for digital whatevers, put out a complete issue on CD as National
Geographic have done? Any one who'd go for this at say about $100 or so
for the first hundred years email:



Sirs, it would be of great help to those of us who constantly have to
reference back copies of Model Engineer, but who don't have ready access
to those back copies, if you would consider issuing a set of CDs similar
in nature to those issued by the National Geographic magazine i.e. 100
years of back issues for a little over $100.
I am quite sure that I am not the only person who would welcome such an
offer.
There would still be a demand for "hardcopy" back issues for those who
prefer them, but a fully searchable CD would be of inestimable value to
the rest of us.
yours sincerely,

Michael Gray