OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Month: June 2018

  • Hold onto your engineer caps, railroad history lovers

    One of the World’s Largest Steam Locomotives Is About to Make a Triumphant Return Now, six decades after the last Big Boy was taken off the rails, the Union Pacific is rebuilding one of the famous locomotives in honor of the upcoming sesquicentennial celebration of the first Transcontinental Railroad. It’s a project so ambitious that…

  • A 3D-printed house you can actually live in should be ready by 2019

    This piece seemed an appropriate follow-up to the post on Edison’s concrete houses. In The Netherlands, a company called Van Wijnen is working with the city of Eindhoven to build the world’s first community of 3D-printed houses. The planned community will have five houses, all printed with concrete. Each subsequent house will build on the…

  • Edison held 49 cement patents

    This Saturday several OE members will be taking the Cement in the Lehigh Valley tour. The Intermountain Concrete Specialties website features information on Edison’s cement products that might be of interest to our group. “Most people know Thomas Edison for the light bulb, but did you know the famous inventor also held 49 cement patents?…

  • LINSEED OIL MILLS IN NEW JERSEY 1732-1955

    Carter Litchfield was an early member of the society and a generous supporter of the Chapter. His research focused on linseed oil mills and processing. His press publications can be viewed at this link.: https://openlibrary.org/publishers/Olearius_Editions. Several current Oliver Evans Chapter members have been involved with this title. This gazetteer provides historical background on the linseed oil industry…