Category: Other News and Events

The Lower Merion Conservancy is hosting a virtual presentation by Oliver Evans chapter member Bob Thomas. Thursday, June 25th 7:00 p.m. Free The Conservancy is delighted to host Bob Thomas – architect, preservationist, greenway planner, and avid cyclist – for a lecture event about Philadelphia’s historic cycling culture. The lecture, which will touch on the…

Here are the past presentations done at the museum that were recorded to view on line. The link below goes to the page where they may be viewed. –How It Works: Blast Furnaces –The Snow Corliss Engine at NMIH –Chief Engineer – Washington Roebling – The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge –Building with Steel…

SCHEDULED LIVE LECTURES: Live lectures will be streamed via Facebook Live on the museum’s Facebook page Thursday, March 26th at 2pm The President’s Pump with Mark Connar It is well known that Bethlehem is the home of the first municipal water pumping system in the United States. A replica of this machine is located in…

National Museum of Industrial History MARCH 7 – 8, 2020 The National Museum of Industrial History will kick-off a month-long commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in March with International Women’s Weekend on March 7th and 8th. Women’s Weekend will celebrate the voices and stories of women in industry through a full schedule…

A presentation by Michael Froio, Photographer Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society Philadelphia Chapter Meeting February 15, 2020  10:30am – Doors open for vendor sales 11:00am – Modelers Meeting 11:30am – Dining Car Opens (food for purchase)… 1:00pm – Chapter Business Meeting 1:30pm – Feature Presentation Drexel Hill United Methodist Church 600 Burmont Rd, Drexel…

Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia Monday,  March 30, 2020  6:00 to 8:00 Archaeologists Douglas Mooney and Jed Levin take us on a trip down Alice’s rabbit hole – digging underneath parking lots, highways, National Park sites, and demolished buildings, they uncover Philadelphia’s hidden past through the fragments of everyday life left by our predecessors. This…

Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia Wednesday, March 18, 2020  6:00 to 8:00 pm Domenic Vitiello, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and City & Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, charts the origins, dynamics, and decline of Philadelphia’s position as one of the world’s leading centers of industry. This talk will trace the networks of…

The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor is proud to announce the release of Geography, Geology and Genius: How Coal and Canals Ignited the American Industrial Revolution. This is the first comprehensive telling of the little known story of how eastern Pennsylvania, from the anthracite coal fields to the tidal waters of the Delaware River,…

Over 2,400 ships, boats, and barges built by over 200,000 shipyard workers in 31 shipyards large and small. A presentation by Dan Cashin, Rigger Instructor – Philadelphia Navy Yard and Philly (Aker) Shipyard With the major ship information courtesy of Tim Colton at shipbuildinghistory.com Tuesday, December 10, 2019   7:30 PM The painting depicts the…