OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • Oliver Evans of Newport, Delaware

    On May 10th from 7-9pm at Greenbank Mills & Philips Farm, join us as we get to the grist of this amazing and remarkable man, born not far from our historic mill. Known primarily for the grist milling system that caught the eyes of both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Oliver Evans was a mind…

  • Program Reminder

    Breweries of the Schuylkill: A Virtual Trip Upstream speaker Rich Wagner, PA Brewery Historian   Date: Monday, May 7, 2018 Time:  5:30 Refreshments              6:15 Program Cost: $10 per person if preregistered       $15 if not reserved in advance Place: Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center You can park in the…

  • How It Works: Model Steam Engines

    Sunday, April 29th at 2pm One of the best ways to learn how something works is to see a functioning model of it.  This month’s How It Works tour will show visitors how stationary steam engines work by operating a series of model steam engines using compressed air.  Many depict engines that rarely survived in…

  • Breweries of the Schuylkill: A Virtual Trip Upstream

    speaker Rich Wagner, PA Brewery Historian The Schuylkill is one of our nation’s oldest industrial rivers. At various times in the 19th and 20th centuries, 80 breweries were located on its banks in towns from the mouth to head with 38 in Philadelphia and 22 in Reading. Join us as Rich shares tales and images…

  • First Sailing Steamship

    Meet the Experts: “Steam Coffin” presentation Saturday, April 21 from 11am to 12pm Steam Coffin is the story of New London native Captain Moses Rogers who’s first sailing “steamship” broke the barriers of fear and skepticism to open the seas for steam-powered shipping. In 1807 Robert Fulton declared his intent to build an experimental “steamboat.”…

  • Brewing and Malting in Early Philadelphia

    In addition, Rich will be giving the Oliver Evans Chapter a presentation on Breweries along the Schuylkill River coming up in May Rich Wagner, Pennsylvania Brewery Historian Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania 100 E Northwestern Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118 http://www.morrisarboretum.org/visit_directions.shtml THURSDAY, APRIL 19 | 7:00 pm Members: $15 Non-Members: $20 Anthony Morris, ancestor…

  • The Centennial and the Museum School: The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art

    Did you know that the Philadelphia Museum of Art began as a museum of industrial art? The museum, along with a school (now University of the Arts), was founded in 1876 in order to take advantage of the purchasing opportunities at the Centennial International Exhibition and was called the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial…

  • Manayunk Sewer Detention Basin Tour

    DATE: Tuesday, April 10, 2018                           TIME: 2 PM The Venice Island underground storage basin of the Philadelphia Water Department is an enclosed basin which temporarily stores diverted flow from the sanitary interceptor sewer during intense rain storms. The basin is capable of storing nearly four million gallons of water that is later pumped out…

  • A Triple Tour in Trappe plus the Berman Museum of Art

    Saturday, March 17 10:00 a.m, to approximately 1:30 p.m. $15 for Philadelphia Chapter SAH members/OESIA members and their guests, payable on site. Registration required, please email your name and the names of your guests to info@philachaptersah.org We will be guided through three historic properties: The Speaker’s House was the home of Frederick Muhlenberg (1750-1801), the…

  • Technology and Society: Engineering Cultures, Chemistry, and Social Order in the Second Industrial Revolution (1890 to 1930)

    The lecture is concerned with the major surge of modernization and industrialization in the Western world around 1900 and contemporary debates among engineers—including chemical engineers—about the “consequences” of technology in society. The United States and Germany were the two leading countries of the Second Industrial Revolution, and it was here that engineers first formulated political…