CANCELLED Crofton Picnic & Steaming Day

MARLBOROUGH, Crofton Pumping Station Crofton, Marlborough, United Kingdom

Newcomen Private Steaming Day and Centennial Celebration at Crofton [...]

Wealden Iron

This is an Online Event

An Online Lecture from Dr Tim Smith [...]

CANCELLED Timeball Towers

MANCHESTER Alliance Française 125 Portland Street, Manchester

A presentation by Dr Roger Kinns [...]

Babbage And The Abstraction Of Mechanism

This is an Online Event

An Online Lecture from Professor Adrian Johnstone. Charles Babbage has been called the ‘Great-Uncle’ of modern computing, a claim that rests simultaneously on his demonstrable understanding of most of the architectural principles underlying the modern computer, and the almost universal ignorance of Babbage’s work before 1970.

The Famous ‘Flying Scotsman’ – Marketing, Circumstance and Chance

This is an Online Event

An Online Lecture from Bob Gwynne. In the UK approximately 110,000 steam locomotives were built, but just one seems to be universally known amongst the British public. Author, curator and Flying Scotsman expert Bob Gwynne will attempt to answer the question as to why the ‘Flying Scotsman’ is so famous.