Category: Other News and Events

In March of 2017 Michael Froio spoke to the chapter on his project, From the Main Line: A Contemporary Survey of the PRR. He is now offering a limited run catalog featuring a selection of images from the ongoing project. Froio is on the faculty at Drexel University. This description of his work appears on…

The National Museum of Industrial History presentsSunday, February 28th at 7pm The National Museum of Industrial History continues its 2021 Meet the Manufacturer Virtual Lecture Series with Andrew Schevets, President of Amorphic Tech Ltd. After spending several years supporting the water and rotating machinery industries, Andrew Schevets sought to create a technical solution to bring…

The National Museum of Industrial History presentsJanuary 31, 2021 7pm The National Museum of Industrial History begins its Manufacturer series with Peter Huntley, CEO & Founder of Stargazer Cast Iron based in Allentown, PA. Stargazer Cast Iron was founded in 2015 by professional kitchenware designer, Peter Huntley, a graduate of Lafayette College in Easton. After…

A Virtual presentation from the National Museum of Industrial History JANUARY 23 @ 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM While the rise and fall of Bethlehem Steel is well-documented, the Corporation’s global impact particularly from places where they sourced raw materials is less well-known. From 1913 until 1971, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation operated iron mines in Chile, shipping…

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Join the Roebling Museum for a virtual lecture about the first place John A. Roebling tested his wire rope, the Allegheny Portage Railroad! Thu, November 19, 20201:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST Be virtually transported to another important Roebling historic site! The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the first railroad to circumvent the Allegheny Mountains and…

THE EARLIEST FILM FROM THE CINECRAFT ARCHIVE From the collection at Hagley Last month, we brought you a “lost” silent film found in the Cinecraft collection called “The Heart of Cleveland.” That film from 1925 pre-dated the founding of Cinecraft in 1937 so it wasn’t something the company produced. How it came to be part…

thursday, october 15 @ 7pm (online) A presentation by Adam Levine For almost 100 years the Roxborough Pumping Station, just above the Flat Rock Dam, was a landmark on the Schuylkill River, pumping water into two reservoirs on high ground to serve the city’s northwestern section. In this illustrated talk, Adam Levine, historian for Philadelphia Water,…

A Civil War Round Table with Bernard Kempinski August 26, 2020 6:00 pm This is a zoom webinar hosted by the Legacy Foundation of the Union League In the two decades before the start of the Civil War the railroads of the United States underwent a period of amazing growth and technological development. Nonetheless, railroads…