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SUMMARY:'Images of Steam Engines – 1712 to ca.1870 and later' by Professor David Perrett
DESCRIPTION:An in-person only event – just turn up\, there’s no need to register \nThroughout the 18th century Newcomen engines and especially their engine house appeared frequently in prints and occasionally paintings. However\, the earliest illustrations are a mix of artistic impressions and rather odd technical explanations. By the Victorian era such landscape images had started to fade. Technical drawings that aided manufacture\, however\, became much better. Later the illustrated newspapers quickly commissioned images of disasters.  \nThis talk will draw together many of the surviving images that have been discovered in books and galleries. \nAbout the Lecturer\nDavid Perrett is Emeritus Professor of Bioanalytical Science at Barts Medical School\, QMUL\, London with over 250 research publications. He is a Past President of the Newcomen Society\, President of the Greater London Industrial Archaeology (GLIAS) and Chair of the Association for Industrial Archaeology. His interests include early steam engines and IA both at home and abroad.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/images-of-steam-engines-1712-to-ca-1870-and-possibly-later-by-david-perrett/
LOCATION:LONDON  Alan Baxter Gallery\, 75 Cowcross St\, Clerkenwell\, London\, EC1M 6EL
CATEGORIES:UK - London Branch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - London Branch":MAILTO:office@newcomen.com
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SUMMARY:'Reflected Glory - From Coal Fires to Parabolic Reflectors' by Julia Elton
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. \nThe development of an effective lighting system by the British Lighthouse Service in the 18th and early 19th centuries \nLighthouses were built to contain lights to guide mariners past dangerous rocks and currents. This being so\, it is all the more surprising that almost none of the dozens of books on lighthouses pay any attention to the lights. \nAlthough there have been some studies on the Fresnel refracting lens\, including one by the present speaker\, the earlier system of catoptric lights has been almost entirely overlooked. The catoptric system combined parabolic reflectors\, which project a powerful parallel beam\, with the smokeless Argand lamp. This technology represented the first application of science to lighthouse illumination and was introduced in the mid-1750s. \nThis lecture will look at the steps taken to develop an effective system\, which was easy to maintain and continued in use long after the introduction of the Fresnel lens. The subject forms the subject of Julia’s PhD thesis and she will reveal new facts and insights about this previously unstudied period. \nAbout the Speaker\nJulia Elton read Music and Icelandic at Leeds University before training as an antiquarian book dealer at B. Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd. She went on to run her own business\, Elton Engineering Books\, the only firm to specialize exclusively in the history of engineering. \nJulia has written and lectured widely on historic engineers and engineering and is now reading for a PhD at UCL on the history of lighthouses. She is a long-standing member of the Institution of Structural Engineers History Study Group and a past president of the Newcomen Society.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/reflected-glory-from-coal-fires-to-parabolic-reflectors-by-julia-elton/
LOCATION:BRISTOL  BAWA\, 589 Southmead Rd\, Filton\, Bristol\, BS34 7RG
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - Western Branch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - North Western Branch":MAILTO:catherine.casson@manchester.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:'The Steel Bakers of Rotherham' by David Eaton & John Anning
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. \nJohn Anning\, a great-grandson of John Baker (1843-1904)\, will outline the history of the Baker family and will describe “Tiny Tim”\, the large Glasgow-made hybrid steam/drop hammer\, purchased from the Darlington Forge in 1906. Saved from demolition in 1965\, it now forms the entry arch to Beamish Industrial Museum.  \nDavid Eaton will give an overview of the company’s history: its railway products\, technical achievements and its steelmaking and processing facilities including the innovative axle – forging plant. He will also briefly describe the armaments work undertaken during WW1 and WW2.  \nAbout the Speakers\nDavid Eaton is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts\, and a Freeman of the City of London. He is a Council Member of the Newcomen Society\, a Trustee of the Ken Hawley Collection Trust and the South Yorkshire Trades Historical Trust Limited and is the current chairman of the South Yorkshire Centre of the Newcomen Society. David retired in 2006 from Sheffield Hallam University as Director of the School of Engineering\, a post he held for 12 years. \nJohn Anning is a great grandson of John Baker of Rotherham. After a successful business career in engineering\, he now enjoys  his lifelong interest in engineering history\, particularly railways\, machine tools and internal combustion engines.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/the-steel-bakers-of-rotherham-by-david-eaton-john-anning/
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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