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SUMMARY:'John Snow And The Fight Against Cholera' by David Moore
DESCRIPTION:This event is both an in-person and on-line event. To reserve a spot for either option\, please visit the lecture’s Eventbrite page \nThis is a joint meeting with Thinktank: Birmingham Science Museum \nDavid Moore describes how John Snow identified the source of a cholera outbreak in London and showed it to be a water-borne disease. \nAbout the Speaker\nDavid Moore has given several talks to Newcomen Midlands in the last few years. He has been heavily involved with the trust that has rescued and preserved the Sandfields steam pumping engine at Lichfield\, Staffordshire. \nSign Up For This Event Here
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/john-snow-and-the-fight-against-cholera-by-david-moore/
LOCATION:BIRMINGHAM Think Tank\, Birmingham Science Museum\,\, Curzon Street\, Birmingham\, West Midlands\, B4 7XG
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - Midlands Branch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - Midland Branch":MAILTO:midlands@newcomen.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T180000
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SUMMARY:'Failure of marine medium speed diesel engines' by Peter Filcek
DESCRIPTION:This event replaces the originally planned lecture The Craftsman Engineer and the Industrial Revolution which was cancelled due to health problems and is both an in-person and on-line event. To reserve a spot for either option\, please visit the lecture’s Eventbrite page. \nThe Technical Investigation Department (TID) was founded in 1947 with the purpose of giving “Lloyd’s Register of Shipping a capability to explore marine failures … with a view to improving the Rules”. The basic tenet was “when you can measure what you are speaking about and can express it in numbers\, you know something about it” (Lord Kelvin). \nTID investigated a wide range of failures in the marine industry and some statistics on relative failure occurrences are given. Medium speed diesel engines are the most common power source and failures are therefore perhaps of the widest interest\, especially to the Chief Engineers responsible for operating the machinery\, the Engineer Superintendents and the Underwriters. \nEight failure cases are presented with a wide range of origins: mechanical overload\, fatigue\, crack initiation by rubbing\, bearing failures\, human error and operational problems. The use of metallurgical examination\, fatigue theory and fracture mechanics is described. \nAbout the Lecturer\nPeter Filcek worked for the Technical Investigation Department (TID) of the ship Classification Society\, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping. \nSign Up For This Event Here
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/failure-of-marine-medium-speed-diesel-engines-by-peter-filcek/
LOCATION:LONDON  Alan Baxter Gallery\, 75 Cowcross St\, Clerkenwell\, London\, EC1M 6EL
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - London Branch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T193000
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SUMMARY:'History of Diamond Core Drilling' by Professor Roger Burt
DESCRIPTION:This event is both an in-person and on-line event. To reserve a spot for either option\, please visit the lecture’s Eventbrite page \nDiamond drilling was one of the most important\, yet under-researched mechanical technologies to be introduced during the late nineteenth century. A relatively simple arrangement\, it was designed on a principle first explored by the ancient Greeks using a round\, hollow drill-bit\, tipped with rough diamonds\, working by rotation rather than impact\, to cut through rock and extract an intact 'core' of the ground through which it passed.  \nIt provided the first opportunity for exploration geologists and miners to 'see' into the underlying geological strata\, without the costly and time-consuming process of sinking man-sized shafts and tunnels. It proved critical to the discovery and development of the world's non-surface exposing mineral deposits – such as the great Minnesota iron range – and thus facilitated the great outpouring of metalliferous minerals that has supplied world industrialization.  \nLater it became the principal method for discovering and producing oil\, and today it provides the base technology for fracking. As we begin the exploration of the moon\, mars and the planets and asteroids around us\, it continues to provide the main means of examining the surface and the rocks below.  \nAbout the Speaker\nProfessor Roger Burt is the Emeritus Professor of Mining History at the University of Exeter and past President of the American Mining History Association and the International Mining History Congress.  \nProfessor Burt has published numerous books and articles on mining history in the UK and overseas and his forthcoming book on Cornish mining during the early twentieth century\, to be published later this year\, discusses many of the issues raised in this lecture. \nSign Up For This Event Here
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/history-of-diamond-core-drilling-by-professor-roger-burt/
LOCATION:BRISTOL  BAWA\, 589 Southmead Rd\, Filton\, Bristol\, BS34 7RG
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - Western Branch
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SUMMARY:'The Challenge of Bringing Quarry Bank’s History to Life' by Professor Hannah Barker
DESCRIPTION:An in-person event only. No need to sign up\, just come along – all are welcome. \nBuilt in the late eighteenth century\, the Quarry Bank is an important heritage site: an industrial community comprising of a cotton mill\, owner’s house and purpose-built housing for mill workers. In 2015\, the National Trust began a £9.4 million project to reinterpret Quarry Bank for future generations of visitors. Amongst other things\, this talk will describe why stockings were an important part of this story\, and why the past was not brown. \nAbout the Lecturer\nHannah Barker was Historical Advisor for the project\, using insights from her research to guide a large-scale reinterpretation to bring the experiences of residents and workers to life in new ways.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/the-challenge-of-bringing-quarry-banks-history-to-life-by-hannah-barker/
LOCATION:MANCHESTER International Anthony Burgess Foundation\, Engine House\, Chorlton Mill\, 3 Cambridge Street\,\, Manchester\, M1 5BY
CATEGORIES:UK - North Western Branch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - North Western Branch":MAILTO:catherine.casson@manchester.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:'RAF Planes that won the Battle of Britain were built on German Machinery' by Dr Jonathan Aylen
DESCRIPTION:Joining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register.\nJoining us ON LINE – please email meetings.syorks@newcomen.com for zoom link. \nWhy the Jewish Refugee Engineer\, Ludwig Loewy was crucial to Britain \nRAF planes for the Battle of Britain used new technology for aircraft construction and more powerful engines. But the light alloys used to build them were manufactured on German machinery. Dr Jonathan Aylen tells the compelling story of Ludwig Loewy\, a refugee Jewish engineer who fled from the Nazis and brought the crucial light-metals technology needed for rearmament from Germany to Britain in 1936. \nLoewy is a familiar name in Sheffield as the mill builder Davy-United changed their name to Davy-Loewy following merger with Loewy's company based in Poole\, Dorset. Less well known is the huge contribution of Ludwig Loewy to the development of the Chesterfield Tube Company\, particularly their Heavy Tube Department which made boiler and condenser tubes for naval warships during the Second World War. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Jonathan Aylen is immediate Past-President of the Newcomen Society and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research within Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. A former economist\, he now specialises in innovation management and environmental management. For the past decade he has also undertaken historical research. \nDr Aylen has contributed papers to the Newcomen Society’s International Journal of the History of Engineering and Technology on the transfer of steel technology from the USA to Wales\, on early process control computers and on weapons design and development\, including the Bloodhound Guided missile and the Blue Danube bomb. \nDr Aylen has travelled widely throughout the world steel industry\, given advice to international bodies and governments on steel issues and commented frequently on television and radio. He recently published a book with Ruggero Ranieri\, Ribbon of Fire\, on how the wide strip mill for steel came to Europe from the USA. \nJonathan’s current research focuses on Cold War technology and\, in particular\, the use of American TOPS computer software by British Rail in the 1970’s.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/raf-planes-that-won-the-battle-of-britain-were-built-on-german-machinery-by-dr-jonathan-aylen-3/
LOCATION:SHEFFIELD Kelham Island Museum\, Alma Street\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire\, S3 8RG
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - South Yorkshire Branch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - South Yorkshire Branch":MAILTO:meetings.syorks@newcomen.com
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