OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • 2020 Virtual Lantern Slide Salon

    From the Wagner Free Institute On Thursday, join the Wagner and three other special collections libraries for the 2020 Virtual Lantern Slide Salon. Part of Archives Month Philly, the Lantern Slide Salon is a yearly exhibition and celebration of glass lantern slides from special collections around the Philadelphia area. This year, view digitized glass lantern…

  • This Old House-Factory Made

    From large scale industry to small town makers, over the years This Old House has explored the places that provide building and finishing materials for our projects. We look back at some fascinating factories we’ve visited. A recent program of the show featured several interesting tours. The complexity and intricacy of the machinery involved in…

  • Roxborough’s River and Water: A History

    thursday, october 15 @ 7pm (online) A presentation by Adam Levine For almost 100 years the Roxborough Pumping Station, just above the Flat Rock Dam, was a landmark on the Schuylkill River, pumping water into two reservoirs on high ground to serve the city’s northwestern section. In this illustrated talk, Adam Levine, historian for Philadelphia Water,…

  • Brick by Brick: building the company town of Roebling, NJ

    Sat, September 12, 202010:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT A walking tour on the hidden history of Roebling’s bricks, where they were made, and what the different brick patterns mean. About this Event Even though they are everywhere in Roebling, you probably haven’t thought too much about the bricks that were used to build the…

  • Introduction to the Railroads of the Civil War

    A Civil War Round Table with Bernard Kempinski August 26, 2020 6:00 pm This is a zoom webinar hosted by the Legacy Foundation of the Union League In the two decades before the start of the Civil War the railroads of the United States underwent a period of amazing growth and technological development. Nonetheless, railroads…

  • Philadelphia’s Historic Cycling Culture

    The Lower Merion Conservancy is hosting a virtual presentation by Oliver Evans chapter member Bob Thomas. Thursday, June 25th 7:00 p.m. Free The Conservancy is delighted to host Bob Thomas – architect, preservationist, greenway planner, and avid cyclist – for a lecture event about Philadelphia’s historic cycling culture. The lecture, which will touch on the…

  • National Museum of Industrial History

    Here are the past presentations done at the museum that were recorded to view on line. The link below goes to the page where they may be viewed. –How It Works: Blast Furnaces –The Snow Corliss Engine at NMIH –Chief Engineer – Washington Roebling – The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge –Building with Steel…

  • Steel City and the 1918 Pandemic

    This program will be presented by the National Museum of Industrial History on its Facebook page. You do not have to create or have an account to watch this. Just click on the Facebook page below and look under Videos. Steel City and the 1918 Pandemic Today at 2PM! During the 1918 influenza pandemic, Pittsburgh…

  • National museum of industrial history -Live Streaming features

    SCHEDULED LIVE LECTURES: Live lectures will be streamed via Facebook Live on the museum’s Facebook page Thursday, March 26th at 2pm The President’s Pump with Mark Connar It is well known that Bethlehem is the home of the first municipal water pumping system in the United States. A replica of this machine is located in…

  • Tour of American Hats LLC

    While there were many hat manufactories in Philadelphia in the 19th and 20th centuries, one of the lone survivors into the 21st century was the S & S Hat Company. At the time it was founded in 1923, it was housed in a factory on Filbert Street between 10th and 11th Streets. It supplied department…