Category: Other News and Events

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,…

Image Source: https://www.roeblingmuseum.org The Smithsonian Institution announced that it has chosen Roebling Museum to develop an exhibit about work in a steel-making company town founded in 1905. Roebling Museum, which documents the history of a company town built by suspension bridge engineers John A. Roebling’s Sons Co., is one of five museums nationwide to participate…

Philadelphia-Red Bank Bridge. Image via Courier Post, March 27, 1926 article BY: THOMAS KOLOSKI 7:30 AM ON JULY 19, 2021 In the 1920s, Philadelphia was on the rise, with industry and was with business activity bustling across the city. The port was generally busy, the skyline was growing, and as automobiles surged in numbers, the…

49th Annual Conference August 23-27, 2021 Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania The Anthracite Heritage Museum, National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH), and the National Canal Museum, a program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, invite you to join the Society for Industrial Archeology in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which has been rescheduled for August 24-27, 2021.  We…

In the mid-20th century, colleagues-turned-rivals Maria Telkes and Hoyt Hottel engineered new ways of heating American homes. An article from Distillations, produced by The Science History Institute Read the article >>

Martha Capwell Fox  A presentation of the Pennsylvania Canal Society Tuesday June 15, 2021  7:00 – 8:00 PM (30 minutes of presentation followed by 30 minutes of Q & A) The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was the first to move anthracite coal efficiently and profitably from mine to market. This was accomplished first by…

Tue, June 8, 202112:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT A talk by Sandy Sorlienpresented by The Athenaeum of Philadelphia A Philadelphia native and longtime Manayunk Canal neighbor, Sandy is an Environmental Photographer and tour developer for the Fairmount Water Works. Starting in 2014, she bushwhacked the entirety of the 108-mile, 200-year-old Navigation system, documenting the…

A presentation By Bob Thomas Hosted by the The Lower Merion Conservancy Thursday, May 13 7:00-8:30 pm Two hundred years ago – before the age of railroads — an extensive canal system served our region, linking Philadelphia with major points from Chesapeake Bay to Canada and from Pittsburgh to New York City. Learn from historian,…