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SUMMARY:'The Birmingham Brass Industry: Origins\, Growth & Politics' by Dr Duncan Frankis
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 \nDr Duncan Frankis places this key industry in its economic and political context \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Duncan Frankis is a lecturer at Newman University\, Birmingham
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/the-birmingham-brass-industry-origins-growth-politics-by-dr-duncan-frankis/
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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SUMMARY:'Iron Stone & Steam: Brunel's Railway Kingdom' by Tim Bryan
DESCRIPTION:Joining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register.\nJoining us ONLINE – Please click this Zoom link 10 mins before event to join us. \nIsambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon\, engineer\, artist\, architect\, designer and visionary\, entrepreneur and celebrity. His astounding feats changed the British landscape\, and this talk tells the story of his achievements and innovations as a railway engineer. \nNew to the developing world of railways in the early 1830s\, Brunel soon came to rival George and Robert Stephenson\, as he embarked on what he called ‘the finest work in England’. The construction of the Great Western Railway\, arguably the most revolutionary of British railways\, opened in 1841. The talk chronicles how\, in almost thirty tumultuous years\, Brunel created a rail network covering much of the South and West of England\, the Midlands and Wales. \nThe talk will also describe how Brunel’s successes were matched by ‘monumental failures’ – the ill-fated atmospheric system used on the South Devon Railway\, and the far-reaching implications of the broad gauge for his railways\, which ultimately cost millions of pounds when abolished. Iron\, Stone and Steam is also the story of the great engineer’s complex character and the roles of the people who helped the creative\, and sometimes dictatorial\, genius create his railway. \nAbout the Speaker\nTim Bryan was born in Bristol and since graduating from the University College of Wales Aberystwyth\, has worked extensively with industrial maritime and transport collections\, leading the curatorial team during the development of the STEAM Museum at Swindon\, before moving to the British Motor Museum as Head of Collections & Interpretation in 2004. He joined the SS Great Britain Trust as Director of the Brunel Institute in 2019\, and leads the collections\, conservation\, education and research teams there.  \nA Fellow of the Museums Association and Chair of the Association of British Transport & Engineering Museums\, Tim has presented at conferences and seminars in the UK\, Italy\, Germany and the USA on a variety of railway\, museum and heritage subjects. and has written more than twenty books on railway history. His most recent title ‘Iron Stone & Steam: Brunel’s Railway Kingdom‘ was published in November 2023.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/iron-stone-steam-brunels-railway-kingdom-by-tim-bryan/
LOCATION:BRISTOL  BAWA\, 589 Southmead Rd\, Filton\, Bristol\, BS34 7RG
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - Western Branch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240122T183000
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SUMMARY:'Inspired By British Inventions: Joseph von Baader's Innovations' by Michael Eckert
DESCRIPTION:ON LINE event only – please visit this Zoom link: 82824786912 shortly before the meeting \nJoseph von Baader’s (1763-1835) Technological Innovations in Bavaria From Hydraulic Machinery to Gas Light \nThe speaker will be joining us on-line from Munich. \nBavaria offered little incentives for the new industrial age around 1800. Yet – due to the activities of the entrepreneurial scientist Joseph von Baader – the Industrial Revolution became manifest in Bavaria at least marginally in the form of hydraulic machinery\, steam engines\, gas light and other novel technologies. Baader’s innovations were inspired by extended sojourns in Great Britain where he had visited James Watt‘s steam engines\, John Wilkinson‘s iron works and other industrial sites. \nUnlike the breeding grounds of the Industrial Revolution in England and Scotland\, however\, the Bavarian sites and circumstances for the realization of new technological inventions were unusual. Baader used the transformation of the Nymphenburg castle park in Munich from the Baroque into the then fashionable English landscape garden as an opportunity to install new pumps for powerful fountain jets. The castle park also served him as a proving ground for the demonstration of other new technologies (transportation systems\, steam engines and gas light). \nThis presentation will illustrate Baader’s activities by authentic documents\, drawings\, photographs and videos. The fountains at Nymphenburg are still driven by Baader’s hydraulic machinery which can be observed in operation at the original site. \nAbout the Speaker\nMichael Eckert currently works at the Forschungsinstitut Deutsches Museum where he undertakes research into Quantum Physics\, Theoretical Physics and Fluid Dynamics. His current project is on the history of turbulence.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/inspired-by-british-inventions-joseph-von-baaders-innovations-by-michael-eckert/
LOCATION:SHEFFIELD Kelham Island Museum\, Alma Street\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire\, S3 8RG
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - South Yorkshire Branch
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SUMMARY:'Building Connections: The Architecture of Telephone Exchange Buildings' by Lisa Kinch
DESCRIPTION:An in-person event only. No need to sign up\, just come along – all are welcome. \nThis talk is about the architectural history of telephone exchange buildings in Britain and the changing relationships between architecture\, technology and the state. It traces the architectural\, technological and historical developments from the opening of Europe’s first telephone exchange in 1879 and the creation of Britain’s first nationalised industry\, through war-time constraints\, iconic buildings and standard types\, network expansion\, automation and the ‘waving goodbye to the hello girls’\, to present day and the fast approaching end of the private switched telephone network (PSTN)\, which will make the majority of the UK’s 5\,600 telephone exchange buildings redundant. \nAbout the Lecturer\nLisa Kinch is an architect and PhD Student at Lancaster University\, where she is researching the history of post-war telephone exchange buildings and the relationships between ‘official’ architecture\, technology and the state. She completed a Masters in Architecture and Urbanism followed by a Masters in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture\, where she now tutors part-time.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/building-connections-the-architecture-of-telephone-exchange-buildings-by-lisa-kinch/
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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