OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • World’s Weirdest and Most Amazing Bridges

    By Stephanie Valera November 01 2016 05:45 PM EDT Weather.com Bridges are some of the world’s most magnificent marvels of engineering, connecting cities and even countries. But bridges have also featured some of the most innovative design. According to a Transportation Research Board Special Report on the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation,…

  • Annual Dinner & Program, Friday, January 19, 2018

    Main Line Airport An Illustrated Lecture by Roger D. Thorne, Board Chairman, Tredyffrin-Easttown Historical Society The Great Valley of Chester County, PA, once an agricultural breadbasket dating back to Colonial times, is today shared by up-scale residential housing and one of America’s leading high-technology corridors. But few realize that for a half century, within what…

  • John Grass Wood-turning shop comes to sad end

    Christopher Storb in his blog, In Proportion to the Trouble, has provided a final look at this location that was researched by chapter members Jane Mork Gibson and John Bowie. Their partial report is linked in Storb’s page as Historical Background by Jane Mork Gibson. It shows the amount of research professional historians and architects…

  • Joel Spivak presents…

  • 28th Annual Wright Stuff Film Fest

    Presented by Martha Capwell Fox, Archives & Museum Coordinator, National Canal Museum/Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, PA Martha Capwell Fox is in charge of maintaining the Museum’s collection of photographs, artifacts, books, films and videos, and historic documents which preserve the history of anthracite mining and the canals which carried the coal to…

  • Save the Date

    28th Wright Stuff Film Fest Come to the Chapter Meeting at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center  December 7, 2017

  • If You Just Can’t Get Enough

    Here is a link to a good article on the many snack companies in Pennsylvania and their beginnings in the mid 19th century. Who wouldn’t enjoy a trip out to York County where many are located? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pennsylvania-potato-chip-snacks?cid=email_Morning%20email%2010-26  

  • Chapter November Program

    Society for Industrial Archeology OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER presents Philadelphia Celebrates: Three Great Anniversaries – 1876 – 1926 – 1976 Edward W. Duffy, Speaker How do you celebrate a national commitment to equality, liberty and tolerance in the middle of political upheaval, riots and a national draft? What can we learn about the character of a…

  • Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Water Works!

    In a few weeks, you can enjoy a sneak peek of parts of the Fairmount Water Works not typically open to the public. Eye-level with the Schuylkill River, walk the same underground paths as a royal family and Olympic swimmers during a behind-the-scenes look at one of Philadelphia’s first tourist destinations. This is a hard-hat…

  • Chapter October Program

    Society for Industrial Archeology OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER presents The President Pump & its Cornish Pump House at the Friedensville Zinc Mine an Illustrated Lecture by Mark W. Connar It is well known that Bethlehem, PA is the home of the first municipal water pumping system in the United States. A replica of this machine is located…