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This Monday (23/5) Peter Smithurst presents 'Gun M

This Monday (23/5) Peter Smithurst presents 'Gun Making by Machinery'🏭 at #KelhamIslandMuseum #Sheffield. Hear about the 1853 #Enfield #Rifle, its mechanised manufacture & more from this @royalarmouriesmuseum Curator Emeritus. The #presentation can also be seen online via @zoom (🔗 link in bio)

#museums #museumsoftheworld #engineeringhistory #Armouries #RoyalArmouries #gun #guns #gunsofinstagram #gunmanufacturers #gunhistory #historyofguns #PeterSmithurst #NewcomenSouthYorkshireBranch #newcomen #newcomensociety

🚨 Tonight🚨 - For those in the Bristol area,

🚨 Tonight🚨 - For those in the Bristol area, David Perrett gives an account of Henry Ford's 1928 English Holiday at BAWA Leisure Centre, Bristol. Hear about how Ford & his wife Clara travelled around looking for old steam engines to buy & ship to Dearborn USA in order to stock the giant Science Museum he was building. 🚙⚙️🔧
(Link in bio for more details)

#HenryFord #Bristol #engineeringhistory #Motorcar #davidperrett #newcomenwesternbranch #steamengines #newcomen #newcomensociety

#ThisWeek Wednesday sees the return of the #Dickin

#ThisWeek Wednesday sees the return of the #DickinsonMemorialLecture - Professor #StephenFurber give a fascinating presentation on the history & development of the ARM #Microprocessor at the #AlanBaxterGallery London (+ online / #Zoom) #CallToArms 🖥️ - see 🔗 link in bio for details.

#Newcomen #NewcomenSociety #Lecture #Presentation #History #HistoryOfEngineering #computerscience #computerengineering #microchip #siliconchip

#ThisWeek - Brian Davies gives an in-person presen

#ThisWeek - Brian Davies gives an in-person presentation on South Wales Colliery Winding Engines at Bristol's #BAWA.

Looking at steam winding engines that survived into the 1960s, restoration work at Great Western Colliery near Pontypridd & much more. 🏭🧑‍🏭🔧⚙️

See link in bio for more info🔗

#engineeringhistory #newcomen #NewcomenWesternBranch #bawabristol #WindingEngines #coal #coalmining #steamwindingengines #steamengines #GeorgeWatkins #restoration #BarkerAndCope #engines #greatwesterncolliery #pontypridd #wales #Bristol

#Tonight - Sue Parker gives the in-person presenta

#Tonight - Sue Parker gives the in-person presentation 'Cleveland's Innovative Engineers' at London's #AlanBaxterGallery. You can watch it online too via @zoom. Learn about attempts to start a Channel Tunnel in 1883 & other fascinating stories. Book via link in bio🔗

#engineeringhistory #innovation #CIE #farringdon #newcomen #newcomenlondon #LondonBranch #telephonetransmitter #telephonetechnology #tunnelboring

This Monday (11/04) Ally McConnell gives online (@

This Monday (11/04) Ally McConnell gives online (@Zoom) presention "A History of Dowty" ft. material from Sir George Dowty’s autobiography & the #Dowty archive🛤️. 🚂

PLEASE NOTE This is no longer an in-person event - sign up for online event via link in bio🔗

#presentation #lecture #AllyMcConnell #railways #GeorgeDowty #engineering #engineeringhistory #BritishEngineering #newcomen #newcomensociety #Gloucester

Tonight #BoxingClever | Nigel Jopson presents "The

Tonight #BoxingClever | Nigel Jopson presents "The history of corrugated containers & the ingenuity of their design & manufacture📦" in person at @thinktankmuseum, Birmingham Science Museum #Birmingham & online (via Zoom)

Sign up to watch on Zoom via link in bio🔗

#Newcomen #NewcomenMidlands #Packaging #Paper #Manufacturing #Engineering #EngineeringHistory

Join us tomorrow 22nd March - 6.30pm for an in-per

Join us tomorrow 22nd March - 6.30pm for an in-person #presentation by #GerryMiller on 'Float Glass Development & Process History – A Revolution' at the #InternationalAnthonyBurgessFoundation #Manchester, put on by our #NorthWest branch. Further details via link in bio
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@misterenderby #FloatGlass #FlatGlass #Pilkington #meeting #lecture #talk

Coming up tomorrow (March 21st) Dr. Peter Morgan g

Coming up tomorrow (March 21st) Dr. Peter Morgan gives a talk on 'How Alloy Steels came to serve the Engineer' at Kelham Island Museum. It can also be attended online (via Zoom) & is put on by our South Yorkshire branch. The presentation will be followed by the branch's AGM (See link in bio for more details) 🏭👨‍🔧

#kelhamislandmuseum #SouthYorkshire #Sheffield #Steel #Alloy #Faraday #Fischer #Sorby #RFMushet #Hadfield #Zoom #lecture #presentation #AGM

Join us on March 17th at #BAWABristol for a fascin

Join us on March 17th at #BAWABristol for a fascinating in-person talk on #Crossrail by accomplished #author specialising in #transport #ChristianWolmar. See link in bio for details 🚆
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#writer #broadcaster #railways #railwaysofourworld #London #londontransport #Bristol #railwayhistory #newcomen

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