CANCELLED Crofton Picnic & Steaming Day
MARLBOROUGH, Crofton Pumping Station Crofton, Marlborough, United KingdomNewcomen Private Steaming Day and Centennial Celebration at Crofton [...]
CANCELLED Summer Meeting – South Yorkshire
A Summer Meeting to remember, based in Sheffield, focused [...]
Wealden Iron
This is an Online EventAn Online Lecture from Dr Tim Smith [...]
CANCELLED Timeball Towers
MANCHESTER Alliance Française 125 Portland Street, ManchesterA presentation by Dr Roger Kinns [...]
Cold War To Coal Trains: TOPS
This is an Online EventAn Online Lecture from Jonathan Aylen British Railways’ [...]
Babbage And The Abstraction Of Mechanism
This is an Online EventAn 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 EventAn 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.
The Newcomen Society AGM 2021
This is an Online EventThe Annual General Meeting of The Newcomen Society for [...]
Stalinism, espionage and Marshall Aid: How US strip mill technology came to Europe
SHEFFIELD Kelham Island Museum Alma Street, Sheffield, South YorkshireAn in-person and online lecture from Jonathan Aylen [...]