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SUMMARY:'150 Years of the Telephone'
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: United States patents (in public domain) \nJoining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register \nThis is a joint event with Thinktank\, Birmingham Science Museum \nOn 10 March 1876\, 150 years ago\, Alexander Graham Bell made what is usually considered to be the first telephone call\, when he spoke the words “Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you” into his experimental apparatus.\n \nTo mark this anniversary\, Newcomen Midlands\, in a change to the usual format of our meetings\, will be showing two videos produced by the Connections Musem in Seattle\, USA\, that describe how Bell submitted his patent\, and how his first transmitter (microphone) and receiver (earpiece) worked.  \nThe films show the museum’s attempts to make a working replica of his original apparatus.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/150-years-of-the-telephone/
LOCATION:BIRMINGHAM Think Tank\, Birmingham Science Museum\,\, Curzon Street\, Birmingham\, West Midlands\, B4 7XG
CATEGORIES:UK - Midlands Branch
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SUMMARY:'A plain substantial piece of workmanship: the marine compound engine & the tramp ship in 19C Britain' by Dr Oliver Carpenter
DESCRIPTION:This event is both an in-person and on-line event. No need to register – just come along or click this zoom link to join on-line. \nThe ‘tramp’ ship was created and constructed as a distinct type of merchant vessel in the 1870s and 1880s by shipbuilders and shipowners operating predominantly out of ports and rivers in the North East of England.  \nTo explain the construction of tramp shipping in this period\, this lecture explores the key technology that really made ‘tramping’ across the oceans a viable\, economical and profitable venture.  \nDr Oliver Carpenter‘s argument is that the adoption and use of the marine compound engine by shipowners created the ‘tramp’ class of merchant steam ships for the first time in a new and rapidly-growing sector in British shipping. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Oliver Carpenter is Curator of Infrastructure & Built Environment at the Science Museum in London. He is responsible for the national collections of Building Construction; Civil Engineering; Docks & Diving; Electricity Supply; Firefighting; Gas Industry; Heating\, Cooling & Ventilation; Lighting; Locks & Fastenings; Nuclear Energy and Sewerage & Sanitation.  \nOliver was Lead Curator of Energy Revolution at The Adani Green Energy Gallery – a major new permanent gallery about the low-carbon energy transition\, which opened at the Science Museum in 2024. Before joining the Science Museum in 2015\, he was a Collections Research Volunteer at Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust and Associate Lecturer in History of Science\, Technology and Medicine at University of Kent.  \nOliver has a PhD in History of Technology and has published on the history of the British merchant shipping industry in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. He is a member of the Newcomen Society Council.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/a-plain-substantial-piece-of-workmanship-the-marine-compound-engine-the-tramp-ship-in-19c-britain-by-dr-oliver-carpenter/
LOCATION:LONDON  Alan Baxter Gallery\, 75 Cowcross St\, Clerkenwell\, London\, EC1M 6EL
CATEGORIES:Shed Talks (Newcomen Online),UK - London Branch
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SUMMARY:'The Anatomy of an Iron Works. A detailed exploration of the Park Gate Iron Works between 1847 & 1859' by David Boursnell
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: Matt Buck | Creative Commons \nJoining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register\nJoining us ON-LINE – click this zoom link (Passcode 221294) \nThe Park Gate Iron Works in Rotherham started in 1823 as a tin plate works. In 1833\, a group of Birmingham businessmen took over and renamed it the Birmingham Tin Plate Company. In 1838\, the company recruited new investors to expand the business and built a blast furnace to produce their own iron. \nIn 1844\, Charles Geach and Samuel Beale bought the business\, and the company was renamed Samuel Beale and Co. In order to manage the business from their head office in Birmingham\, they collected detailed monthly information about the production process\, including the amount and cost of the raw materials as well as all the operational costs. The figures were recorded in four small pocket books covering the years 1847 to 1859 and transferred to the head office.\nAt the peak\, the notebooks record the figures from xx coal mines\, xx ironstone mines\, 5 blast furnaces on 4 sites\, puddling furnaces\, three rolling mills and various forges. These figures enable us to draw a detailed picture of the process of making iron at Park Gate. \nRails remained the company’s biggest product\, but the company diversified into ship plates and supplied all the plates for Brunel’s SS Great Eastern\, including the largest plates ever rolled at that time. Based on this experience\, they made rolled armour plates for the Crimean War and were the first company to overcome the technical difficulties of this process. \nAbout the Speaker\nDavid Boursnell is a published author & researcher of Naval Armour – both manufacturers & manufacturing\, and a consultant to Kelham Island Industrial Museum\, Sheffield
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/the-anatomy-of-an-iron-works-a-detailed-exploration-of-the-park-gate-iron-works-between-1847-1859-by-david-boursnell/
LOCATION:SHEFFIELD Kelham Island Museum\, Alma Street\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire\, S3 8RG
CATEGORIES:Shed Talks (Newcomen Online),UK - South Yorkshire Branch
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