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Apologies again - random notes is all I have for you.. 1712 - Dudley Castle in Warwickshire - the first working Newcomen Engine. Engraving of it by Thomas Barney, 1719 (Getty Images) : "Seldom in the history of a technology has so momentous an invention been developed by one man so rapidly to so developed a form" - Lionel Rolt (writer and biographer, 1910-1974) Yet at first, it was a horribly inefficient device. By today's standards, a monster, wasting about 99% of the energy in its coal fire. There was luck involved -  steam melted some solder that was used to seal the chamber allowing water to rush in and condense the steam, dropping pressure and now allowing the atmosphere to push the piston and thereby do work lifting a load - how early engines worked. It was the immortal James Watt who realized you could boost efficiency by using a different chamber to do the condensation and thereby keep the primary chamber hot. Locomotives Stationary steam engines that pulled wagon...

Apologies, for want of time, these are the notes as is.. (FYI, book starts off with his burnout incident) Judd Ray - black cop - first FBI - one of our own - examine pre-crime behaviour for clues - in this case, wife started being nice..  He contaminated his own crime scene - where he was intended victim. Is perp preparing for a change in status quo?  FBI HQ 60 ft below ground in Quantico VA. Wilkie Collins, Woman in White Mad Bomber : Dr. James A. Brussel - paranoic who hated father, obsessively loved mother, lived in CT, look for heavy man, middle age, foreign born, single, lives with brother or sister, roman catholic, wearing double breasted suit, buttoned.. JD learned his craft (psych) very early - as a bouncer - while talking to the person whose ID he was holding, he would discreetly look at people 3-4 rows back preparing to be questioned - body language - nervous? tentative? reminds me of what you read in the Wikileaks article on how immigration officials try to find th...