OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • 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…

  • Reminder: Canal Museum Book Sale

    March 3, 10:00 to 3:00 Don’t miss it!  Book sale will offer titles on canals and waterways, railroads, industry, technology, industrial archaeology, biography and history, and  Current Canal History and Technology Press books.  And although a few, mostly the most recent titles, will be full-priced, buyers present at the sale can avoid paying for shipping.…

  • the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Philadelphia Piers 122 & 124

    The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Philadelphia Pier 122 & Pier 124 speaker Gregory Vlassopoulos, Jr. On February 5th we heard Jim Rubillo speak about Philadelphia’s Hog Island Shipyard. In March we will hear another program related to South Philadelphia: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the PRR’s Philadelphia Piers 122 &…

  • Great Opportunity Book Sale

      March 3, 10:00 to 3:00 A fair sized book sale will offer titles on canals and waterways, railroads, industry, technology, industrial archaeology, biography and history, and some odds and ends as well. Current Canal History and Technology Press books will also be available; some will be discount priced.  And although a few, mostly the…

  • Flying Dutchman” airport in Somerton

    The next meeting of the Northeast Philadelphia History Network will be Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 7:00 PM at historic Pennepack Baptist Church, 8732 Krewstown Road 19115 Philadelphia, in Bustleton. In honor of Black History Month, the topic will be Emory Conrad Malick (1881-1958), the first licensed African American aviator. Malick received his international pilot’s…

  • Final 747 US commercial flight

    This is a timely addition to the annals of air flight presented to OE members who attended the chapter’s annual dinner. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/747-airlines-final-flight.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

  • Transportation Topic

    Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year claimed the lives of some two dozen people and made Philadelphia a prominent point in the tumultuous national conflict over workers’ rights. That strike was a notable point, but not a unique one, in the history of Philadelphia’s transit system. In this presentation, author…