Category: Other News and Events

This piece seemed an appropriate follow-up to the post on Edison’s concrete houses. In The Netherlands, a company called Van Wijnen is working with the city of Eindhoven to build the world’s first community of 3D-printed houses. The planned community will have five houses, all printed with concrete. Each subsequent house will build on the…

This Saturday several OE members will be taking the Cement in the Lehigh Valley tour. The Intermountain Concrete Specialties website features information on Edison’s cement products that might be of interest to our group. “Most people know Thomas Edison for the light bulb, but did you know the famous inventor also held 49 cement patents?…

  The Chapter is looking into a visit to a local mill operating the technology devised by our namesake, Oliver Evans. Also members might be interested in a visit to this farm and mill complex recently opened after restoration to a working mill by volunteers. Now the building will be able to function as a…

Here is link to an article in the New Yorker highlighting the work of a dedicated individual, Philip Ashforth Coppola, who has taken on the mission of recording the 472 subway stations in New York City. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/sketching-the-mta-with-a-subway-archeologist His work is currently featured at the New York Transit Museum. http://www.nytransitmuseum.org/program/onetrackmind/ Selections of his drawings have been published…

On May 10th from 7-9pm at Greenbank Mills & Philips Farm, join us as we get to the grist of this amazing and remarkable man, born not far from our historic mill. Known primarily for the grist milling system that caught the eyes of both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Oliver Evans was a mind…

Sunday, April 29th at 2pm One of the best ways to learn how something works is to see a functioning model of it.  This month’s How It Works tour will show visitors how stationary steam engines work by operating a series of model steam engines using compressed air.  Many depict engines that rarely survived in…

Meet the Experts: “Steam Coffin” presentation Saturday, April 21 from 11am to 12pm Steam Coffin is the story of New London native Captain Moses Rogers who’s first sailing “steamship” broke the barriers of fear and skepticism to open the seas for steam-powered shipping. In 1807 Robert Fulton declared his intent to build an experimental “steamboat.”…

Saturday, March 17 10:00 a.m, to approximately 1:30 p.m. $15 for Philadelphia Chapter SAH members/OESIA members and their guests, payable on site. Registration required, please email your name and the names of your guests to info@philachaptersah.org We will be guided through three historic properties: The Speaker’s House was the home of Frederick Muhlenberg (1750-1801), the…

The lecture is concerned with the major surge of modernization and industrialization in the Western world around 1900 and contemporary debates among engineers—including chemical engineers—about the “consequences” of technology in society. The United States and Germany were the two leading countries of the Second Industrial Revolution, and it was here that engineers first formulated political…

March 3, 10:00 to 3:00 Don’t miss it!  Book sale will offer titles on canals and waterways, railroads, industry, technology, industrial archaeology, biography and history, and  Current Canal History and Technology Press books.  And although a few, mostly the most recent titles, will be full-priced, buyers present at the sale can avoid paying for shipping.…