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and Co. Many other novel and original processes were 

 devised by Mr. Dale, who was always ready to place his 

 large and unique experience at the disposal of his friends, 

 and among these the writer has to thank him for much and 

 most valuable information. During the last four or five 

 years his health had been failing, but his interest in the 

 later development of technical and pure science never 

 flagged. He died 31st May, 1889, and thus another link 

 of the chain connecting the younger generation of chemists 

 with the illustrious Dalton has been broken. 



The name of DANIEL ADAMSON, which will be long 

 remembered in connection with the Manchester Ship Canal, 

 is also assured a place amongst distinguished engineers by 

 the part which he took in the development of steam 

 engineering and the use of steel. Born at Shildon, 

 Durham, in 18 18, Adamson became apprenticed, when 

 seventeen years old, to the celebrated T. Hackworth, 

 at the Stockton and Darlington Railway. After serving 

 here for six years, he was appointed managing draughts- 

 man and superintendent engineer to the same Company. 

 This post he held until 1847, when he became manager 

 of the Shildon works, also belonging to this Company. 

 In 1849 ne left the service of the Stockton and Dar- 

 lington Railway, and after holding for a short period the 

 position of manager to the Heaton Foundry, Stockport, 

 he, in 185 1, commenced business on his own account as 

 Engineer and Boiler Maker, at Newton Moor Iron Works, 

 near Manchester. About this time he inaugurated a series 

 of reforms and improvements in the construction and 

 manufacture of steam boilers, with which his name has 

 become associated. The first of these consisted in the 

 introduction of the flanged seam for the flue tubes, to 

 replace the ordinary lap ring seam which was then generally 

 used. According to Adamson's method, the flue tubes are 

 made in welded sections, the ends of which are provided 



