Category: Other News and Events

Join the SIA for the 17th session of IA Online Wednesday, January 19 at 8 p.m. Eastern (US & Canada): Paul King & Marty Johnston – “Roebling’s Monongahela Bridge: History & Motion: A Progress Report” Register to join us on Zoom: https://michigantech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUodeyopzIpEtYwYT9zfDimR7K2jlEnzMDP This collaborative talk will be roughly 40 minutes long, with the remainder of…

A Roebling Museum road trip presentation Wednesday, December 1 at 6pm Join us as Author Jeffrey Richman shares a selection of 19th-century images from his new book to explore the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Many of the images have never been published on the printed page before. Mr. Richman’s new book, Building the Brooklyn…

The Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society presentsAUTHOR TALK: ERIC S. HINTZ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2021 AT 7:00 P.M. In person at the Hagley CenterThe program will also be live streamed on Haley’s YouTube channel During the nineteenth century, heroic individual inventors such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell created…

Join the SIA for the 15th session of IA Online Wednesday, November 10 at 8 p.m. Eastern (US & Canada) T. Arron Kotlensky & Steve Walton – “Where Archaeology and History Collide: The Industrial Archaeology of the West Point Foundry” The establishment of the foundry was encouraged by President James Madison, who, after the War…

Philadelphia’s Vacant Budd Plant Becomes a Biomanufacturing Center Aug 6, 2021 https://www.inquirer.com/business/biotech-lab-manufacturing-budd-plant-20210809.html A facility that once fabricated metal products for the automotive and transportation industry central to a bygone era of Philadelphia’s economy, has found a new life as a biomanufacturing center, a key industry for the city’s economic future.The Plymouth Group, which owns the…

A 1926 photo of the quarry | Source: Milestone Heritage Consulting Yorktown, New York Saturday, November 6th, 10:30 AM A Program of the SIA Roebling Chapter From 1890 to 1941, the abandoned and long forgotten Mohegan Quarry was a major industry in Yorktown and a major New York State supplier of granite for buildings, including…

Wednesday, October 20 at 3 p.m.  Join the SIA for the 14th session of IA Online Eastern (US & Canada): David Farrier – “An extant cotton gin from the Albany Agricultural Works” Jerry Miller – “North Central Ohio Industrial Museum Featuring Inventor of Over 200 Patents, Harry F. Smith of Lexington OH”  Register to…

September 3, 2021 – October 10, 2021 The  Neon Museum of Philadelphia presents An Exhibit of Larry Handy’s Amazing Breweriana You may know of Philly’s Brewerytown – a neighborhood named after the extensive history of breweries in the area – but do you know just how deep the citywide beer history of Philadelphia runs? We…

Friday – Sunday October 1 – 3, 2021 Canal Society of Ohio Joint Tour With the Pennsylvania Canal Society and with participation of the Northern Ohio Chapter Society of Industrial Archeology – Pittsburgh Riverboat Tour A tour of Pittsburgh’s three rivers will be aboard the Rivers of Steel Explorer Riverboat on Saturday.  Boat staff will…

A virtual presentation by the Center for Brooklyn History Sept 1, 2021 6:30-7:30 PM On May 24, 1883 New Yorkers and Brooklynites gathered to celebrate an engineering miracle: the long-anticipated opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. Jeffrey Richman’s new book, “Building the Brooklyn Bridge: 1869-1883,” tells the story of the bridge’s construction in over 250 images,…