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Bringing the Elsecar Newcomen engine back to life
South Yorkshire Industrial History Society – Annual Joseph Bramah Lecture Geoff Wallis, well-known conservation and restoration consultant engineer, and past president of the Newcomen Society will be giving the Annual Joseph Bramah Lecture on 14th March 2016, as part of the Barnsley section of the South Yorkshire Industrial History Society’s programme. The lecture, entitled Bringing the Elsecar Newcomen engine back to life, starts at 7pm at the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley. It will deal with the recent successful conservation project on Elsecar’s 1795 Newcomen engine – the oldest steam engine still in situ over its original working shaft. The lecture will cover the challenges and insights over the course of…
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Support new work on Early Engines
A crucial aim of the International Early Engines Conference is to provide a platform for the significant amount of research into the early development of heat engines which powered us into the modern industrial era. Les Turnbull’s new work on William Brown is a perfect example of this rich seam of new material. Les will be presenting aspects of his research in a lecture at Neville Hall Newcastle at 11am, on Wednesday 2nd March 2016: The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers intends to publish the results of Les Turnbull’s research into the life, work and impact of William Brown (d.1782) a largely forgotten but eminent mining…
