OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • 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 in 1905. Roebling Museum, which documents the history of a company town built by suspension bridge engineers John A. Roebling’s Sons Co., is one of five museums nationwide to participate…

  • 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 on the rise, with industry and was with business activity bustling across the city. The port was generally busy, the skyline was growing, and as automobiles surged in numbers, the…

  • 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 program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, invite you to join the Society for Industrial Archeology in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which has been rescheduled for August 24-27, 2021.  We…

  • 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 History Institute Read the article >>

  • The Lehigh Navigation: How a Waterway Changed the Nation

    Martha Capwell Fox  A presentation of the Pennsylvania Canal Society Tuesday June 15, 2021  7:00 – 8:00 PM (30 minutes of presentation followed by 30 minutes of Q & A) The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was the first to move anthracite coal efficiently and profitably from mine to market. This was accomplished first by…

  • Abandoned canals of the Schuylkill navigation

    Tue, June 8, 202112:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT A talk by Sandy Sorlienpresented by The Athenaeum of Philadelphia A Philadelphia native and longtime Manayunk Canal neighbor, Sandy is an Environmental Photographer and tour developer for the Fairmount Water Works. Starting in 2014, she bushwhacked the entirety of the 108-mile, 200-year-old Navigation system, documenting the…

  • Philadelphia Railroads

    An Oliver Evans Chapter Program presented by Joel Spivak Wednesday, June 2, 2021 7:00 – 8:30 Philadelphia, “the workshop of the world,” produced locomotives, railcars, interiors, wheels, and tracks. Some of the earliest railroads in the country operated in Philadelphia and left a legacy of treasures around the city. Take a virtual tour and hear…

  • Reminder: 200 Years on Our Regional Network of Historic Canals

    A presentation By Bob Thomas Hosted by the The Lower Merion Conservancy Thursday, May 13 7:00-8:30 pm Two hundred years ago – before the age of railroads — an extensive canal system served our region, linking Philadelphia with major points from Chesapeake Bay to Canada and from Pittsburgh to New York City. Learn from historian,…

  • Correct Link for Canal Talk

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  • 200 Years on Our Regional Network of Historic Canals

    A presentation By Bob ThomasHosted by the The Lower Merion Conservancy Thursday, May 137:00-8:30 pm The Delaware and Lehigh Canal and Towpath just north of Weissport, Carbon County, PA © 2020 – Robert P. Thomas, AIA Two hundred years ago – before the age of railroads — an extensive canal system served our region, linking Philadelphia…