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IEEC3 Conference – Booking Details and Call for Papers
Host venue Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life Conference Details and Call for Papers Building on the success of our previous conferences, we are delighted to confirm our third event, (IEEC3) will be hosted by the Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life from 22-24 March 2024 DATES, TIMES AND VISITS? The event will run from noon Friday 22nd until noon on Sunday 24th March 2024 and it is our intention to arrange group visits to three surviving Newcomen Engine Houses on Thursday 21st and to a number of significant Scottish stationary engine sites on Monday 25th. FORMAT, CULTURE AND WHAT ABOUT PAPERS? We are again determined that the culture of…
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Early Steam Engines in Central European Mining Conference 7-8th October 2022, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
IEEC are delighted to share full details an Early Engines conference being organised by our friends in Slovakia in October 2022, focused on early engines in Central Europe. The Slovak National Archives, Slovak Mining Archives division, and the Slovak Mining Museum are inviting participants to Banská Štiavnica, in Slovakia for this international conference (English language presentations). With participants from Slovakia, Belgium, Hungary, Austria and the United Kingdom having committed to delivering papers it should prove a fascinating event. Organizing Committee A warm welcome is extended by the committee: For the Slovak Mining Archives (Slovenský banský archív):– Mgr. Peter Konecný, PhD. Head of Slovak Mining Archives (Slovak National Archives) expert guarantor…
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The Third International Early Engines Conference (IEEC3) March 2024 – Preliminary Announcement
Ensuring Scottish contributions to early engine developments are recognised and celebrated We are delighted to confirm that Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life at Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, close to Glasgow, have kindly agreed to host IEEC3 from the 22nd to the 24th of March 2024. Summerlee is Scotland’s flagship museum of industry and amongst its many attractions is the UK’s only surviving rotative Newcomen Engine, from Farme Colliery outside Glasgow. Format and timings will follow those of successful previous conferences, kicking off at midday on Friday 22nd March and running through to 12.00 on Sunday 24th March 2024. An evening excursion/buffet at one of Scotland’s significant early engine sites is planned…
