Category: Other News and Events

A Webinar Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Fairmount Water Works Thursday, May 12, 2022 12:00pm – 1:00pm The Fairmount Water Works are one of Philadelphia’s most iconic sites, yet the least understood by locals. It’s even harder for out of towners to comprehend its significance when you tell them “you MUST visit our old municipal water…

The Preservation Alliance For Greater Philadelphiapresents A Special Architecture Walking Tour The Wayne Junction Historic District, bordering lower Germantown and upper Nicetown, was once a bustling Philadelphia industrial center known as “Workshop of the World.” In the later decades of the 1900s, Wayne Junction experienced disinvestment and decline as manufacturing moved elsewhere, leaving many of…

C.C. Sunderland and innovations in 20th century bridge construction April 6, 2022 6pm Join us as Dario Gasparini shares his research into construction technologies for suspension bridges with a focus on C. C. Sunderland, Chief Engineer for the John A. Roebling Son’s Company. He will discuss construction of suspension bridge cables, the development of new…

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…