OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • From Caves and Canals to Tunnels and Transit

    The New Jersey Chapter of the National Railway Historical Societypresents a Zoom program Underground Philadelphia:From Caves and Canals to Tunnels and Transit Jan 24, 2022 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) WJC member Joel Spivak will present his program on Underground Philadelphia. The program is based on a book by Harry Kyriadkodis and Joel that…

  • from the National SIA Organization

    Join the SIA for the 17th session of IA Online Wednesday, January 19 at 8 p.m. Eastern (US & Canada): Paul King & Marty Johnston – “Roebling’s Monongahela Bridge: History & Motion: A Progress Report” Register to join us on Zoom: https://michigantech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUodeyopzIpEtYwYT9zfDimR7K2jlEnzMDP This collaborative talk will be roughly 40 minutes long, with the remainder of…

  • More than just trains…homage to “workshop of the world”

    The Oliver Evans Chapter presentsA virtual presentation by Ron Hoess, OE Chapter MemberTuesday, January 11, 2022  6:30pm Over the last 7 years I have been constructing what is referred to as a prototype train layout, meaning a layout that represents a very specific time and place. The layout is set in North Philadelphia circa 1958…

  • More than just trains…homage to “workshop of the world”

    Save the Date The Oliver Evans Chapter presents More than just trains…homage to “workshop of the world”A virtual presentation by Ron Hoess, OE Chapter MemberTuesday, January 11, 2022  6:30pm The Zoom link for the program will be sent at a date closer to the time of the presentation Over the last 7 years I have…

  • The Industrial and Neighborhood History around Matthias Baldwin Park, Philadelphia, Zoom Link

    The Oliver Evans Chapter presents“The Industrial and Neighborhood History around Matthias Baldwin Park” A talk by Joe Walsh, vice president of the Friends of Matthias Baldwin Park Tuesday, December 14, 2021 6:30- 8:30 Matthias Baldwin Park is a two-acre Philadelphia city park at 423 North 19th Street. Formerly the area was filled with machine shops, foundries,…

  • See How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built

    A Roebling Museum road trip presentation Wednesday, December 1 at 6pm Join us as Author Jeffrey Richman shares a selection of 19th-century images from his new book to explore the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Many of the images have never been published on the printed page before. Mr. Richman’s new book, Building the Brooklyn…

  • AMERICAN INDEPENDENT INVENTORS IN AN ERA OF CORPORATE R&D

    The Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society presentsAUTHOR TALK: ERIC S. HINTZ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2021 AT 7:00 P.M. In person at the Hagley CenterThe program will also be live streamed on Haley’s YouTube channel During the nineteenth century, heroic individual inventors such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell created…

  • The Industrial and Neighborhood History around Matthias Baldwin Park, Philadelphia

    The Oliver Evans Chapter presents“The Industrial and Neighborhood History around Matthias Baldwin Park”A talk by Joe Walsh, vice president of the Friends of Matthias Baldwin Park  Tuesday, December 14, 2021 6:30 – 8:30 Matthias Baldwin Park is a two-acre Philadelphia city park at 423 North 19th Street. The Friends post a monthly hyperlocal history article…

  • What’s Joel Doing?

    South Street Museum Opening 523 S. 4th St. – Phila. PA 19147 The Museum is a collection of artifacts from the South Street Renaissance as it happened from1962 to the present including a history of the neighborhood. The Museum will be open: Saturday December 4,  2021  2 until 6 Saturday Dec. 11, 2021  12 until…

  • The Industrial Archaeology of the West Point Foundry

    Join the SIA for the 15th session of IA Online Wednesday, November 10 at 8 p.m. Eastern (US & Canada) T. Arron Kotlensky & Steve Walton – “Where Archaeology and History Collide: The Industrial Archaeology of the West Point Foundry” The establishment of the foundry was encouraged by President James Madison, who, after the War…