The Society for Industrial Archeology.
OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER
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A chapter member noted that the organization sponsoring this talk and its location in person were not included in the last post. It is the historic Cornwall Iron Furnace, 1742 “With the exception of a mere handful of similar preservations in Sweden and Germany – and possibly a few in…
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Roebling Museum Selected by Smithsonian to Create Exhibit on American Workers
Image Source: https://www.roeblingmuseum.org The Smithsonian Institution announced that it has chosen Roebling Museum to develop an exhibit about work in a steel-making company town founded…
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Looking Back At The Unbuilt Red Bank Bridge Proposal In South Philadelphia
Philadelphia-Red Bank Bridge. Image via Courier Post, March 27, 1926 article BY: THOMAS KOLOSKI 7:30 AM ON JULY 19, 2021 In the 1920s, Philadelphia was…
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Society for Industrial Archeology
49th Annual Conference August 23-27, 2021 Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania The Anthracite Heritage Museum, National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH), and the National Canal Museum, a…
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The Sun Queen and the Skeptic: Building the World’s First Solar Houses
In the mid-20th century, colleagues-turned-rivals Maria Telkes and Hoyt Hottel engineered new ways of heating American homes. An article from Distillations, produced by The Science…
● About US
The SIA’s emphasis on archeology reflects a concern for the tangible evidence of early industry. Our mission is the study, interpretation, and preservation of the surviving factories, machinery, bridges, canals, industrial communities and artifacts that are historically significant.
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