Swindin, Norman

A UK gas works in 1916, described by Norman Swindin, Engineering Wiihoiil Wheels... 

D.C. Freshwater, George E. Davis, Norman Swindin, and the Empirical Tradition in Chemical Engineering, in W.F. Furter (Ed.), History of Chemical Engineering, Advances in Chemistry Series... 

George E. Davis, Norman Swindin, and the Empirical Tradition in Chemical Engineering... 

The second (1904) edition of Davis handbook was not only illustrated but also largely extended by Norman Swindin to whom we are indebted for most of our information about Davis other than the bare fects of his life (3), Davis said in the preface to his book, If a student s credentials included the fact that he knew by heart the whole of the handbook of chemical engineering and possessed the ability to apply it, he would not have much difficulty in finding a post. If this was Davis ideal chemical engineer, Norman Swindin must have come close to it. 

It would not be proper to end without some mention of Norman Swindin as a man. I only knew Davis secondhand, through his book and from Swindin, but I was fortunate to know Swindin himself and to become his friend over the last 20 years of his life—from age 76 to 96. 

For an anecdotal but revealing practitioner s account of this period, see Norman Swindin, Engineering Without Wheels A Personal History (London Weidenfeld Nicolson, 962), passim. 

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