Knowledge: industrial
See Also:
- recreation → outdoors → caving → urban exploration
- reference → museums → science → technology → industry
- society → history → by topic → places → ghost towns
- society → history → by topic → science → engineering and technology
Links
- King Bridge Company Museum
http://www.kingbridgeco.com/ - Research on Zenas King and the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Includes history, catalogues, photographs and links.
- The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
http://detroityes.com/ - Lowell Boileau's photographic tour of abandoned and demolished industrial structures in Detroit, including Henry Ford's Model T Automobile Plant.
- The Great Lakes Industrial History Center
http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/glihc/ - Articles, images, maps, and resources documenting the history of shipping and industry on the Great Lakes.
- New York City Transit Scenes: Past and Present
http://wt.mit.edu/Subway/ - Historical and recent photos of the New York subway and other New York City transit scenes.
- Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaelology
http://www.as.wvu.edu/ihtia/ - Research, teaching, and service in the history of technology, industrial archaeology, and the history and preservation of historic engineering works.
- Kettering/GMI Alumni Foundation Collection Of Industrial History
http://www.gmi.edu/acad/histcoll/ - Description of the collection's holdings.
- Mining Engineering History at Michigan Tech
http://www.mg.mtu.edu/mining/oldpix.htm - The history of Michigan Mining School. Mine shafts of Michigan: photos of old mining structures. Links to Michigan mining history web sites.
- Industrial Archaeology
http://www.acme.com/jef/photos/archaeology.html - Photographs by Jef Poskanzer of abandoned industrial buildings in the United States, with related links.
- Exploring and Modern Ruins
http://www.xydexx.com/modernruins/ - Karl Xydexx Jorgensen's photographs of abandoned places including Bannerman's Castle, the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and New York Central's Putnam Division Railroad.
- The Night Photographer
http://www.nightphotographer.com/index.htm - Making art out of his photographs of ghost towns, abandoned buildings and industrial equipment. Includes journals of his explorations.
- The Baltimore Museum of Industry
http://www.thebmi.org/ - Hours, memberships, events, research center collections and access information.
- The British Engineerium
http://www.britishengineerium.com/ - Restored working Victorian pumping station, housing a large collection of steam engines. History, education programs.
- Tsongas Industrial History Center
http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/index2.htm - Educational programs about the American Industrial Revolution.
- Ind-arch Discussion List
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ind-arch.html - UK list to encourage discussion of industrial archaeology. Aims to help establish links between fieldwork, research, individuals and establishments. Browse and search archives and files.
- Industrial Archaeology Video Archive
http://www.iarecordings.org/ - Record past and present industrial activity on film and video for posterity.
- Ekomuseum Bergslagen
http://www.ekomuseum.se/english/index.html - Includes articles about the ironmaking region near Bergslagen, Sweden, from around 500 B.C. to the present.
- The Industrial History of Rugby (UK)
http://www.rugby-local-history.org.uk/ - Overview of transport, manufacturing, utilities and industrial housing.
- The Trevithick Society
http://www.trevithick-society.org.uk/ - Encourages interest in Cornish industrial archaeology through lectures, outings and other meetings and by publishing the results of individual research through its regular and occasional publications.
- Society for Industrial Archeology
http://www.sia-web.org/ - Membership information, calendar, conference information, action alerts.
- Association for Industrial Archaeology
http://www.industrial-archaeology.org.uk/ - Promotes the study, preservation and presentation of Britain's industrial heritage.
- The Hay Tor Quarries and Granite Tramway
http://www.9fairfield.eclipse.co.uk/haytor/haytorone.html - On Dartmoor, UK. An investigation of the present track and quarry layout and an attempt at reconstructing the original track layout and phases of development.
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