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2 Engineering institutions and engineering societies 5

THE INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS (IMechE)

The IMechE was started in 1847, holding its first meetings in Birmingham, UK.
The present headquarters of the IMechE, 1 Birdcage Walk in London was com-
pleted in 1899.
Two of IMechE’s famous past presidents.

FIG. 1.3
George Stephenson.
From The Project Gutenberg eBook, Great Britain and Her Queen, by Anne E. Keeling http://www.gutenberg.org/
etext/13103. Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephenson#/media/File:George_Stephenson_
Project_Gutenberg_etext_13103.jpg.

FIG. 1.4
Joseph Whitworth.
Photograph of a portrait of Joseph Whitworth, engineer. Taken from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:
Joseph_Whitworth.jpg.