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What is an , anyway? Here's a quick introduction to the program from ASME History & Heritage.
Stand by us with your donation, and then come "Stand by us" when we pour iron in 2021. The Foundry non-profit board is asking for your support on Giving Tuesday – December 1st.
All donations must be made ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2020
THROUGH THIS LINK:
www.giveamador.org
OR
Drop off CHECKS DATED 12/1/2020 or CASH
11AM – 3PM December 1st, 2020
At Miners Bend Park in Sutter Creek
OR
Drop off CHECKS DATED 12/1/2020
in Mail Slot 12:01AM TO MIDNIGHT December 1, 2020
OR in person 9AM – 5PM
at Amador Community Foundation
571 S. Hwy 49, Jackson, CA 95642, Phone: 209-223-2148
OR
Drop off CHECKS DATED 12/1/2020
11AM – 3PM December 1, 2020
St. Katharine Drexel
11361 Prospect Drive, Jackson, CA 95642
Transit, Light and Power Company - Bakersfield, California 1897...... The first hydro-electric power development on the Kern River was done at the mouth of the river in the valley east of Bakersfield as part of the Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway.
"In December 1894, the Power Development Company was founded. Its owners were H. A. Blodgett, C. N. Beale, S. W. Fergusson, W. S. Tevis and Henry Jastro. The company began work on constructing a hydroelectric power plant at the base of the Kern River Canyon. The construction was completed in 1897. It also would provide enough power for an electric streetcar line."
Knight & Co. supplied four turbine sets with governors and controls as shown in the 1912 Knight Catalog. These wheels operated with a head of 190 feet and a large volume water. Later hydro development on the Kern River in the early 1900s was done by Southern California Edison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/…/Bakersfield_and_Kern_Electric_Railway
Learn something new about engineering history! Join Thomas Fehring, P.E., from ASME History & Heritage Thursday for an online presentation about Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when it was known as "the machine shop of the world."
Hello - I am trying to reconnect and get a contact person(s) with the ASME History & Heritage Program.... We are now restarting to revive the Knight Foundry site in Sutter Creek, California. ASME Landmark #182....
The Bloodhound SSC, an ASME History & Heritage engineering landmark, has hit a speed bump on the road to its next attempt.
What happens to the machines that fueled America's industrial development? This article from the York Daily Record/Sunday News talks about the future of two steam engines, one of which is an ASME Mechanical Engineering Landmark. (via ASME History & Heritage)
Photos from 26 April 2014 Redesignation Ceremony for Landmark #100 the Belle Isle Gas Turbine.
Very interesting topics.