PEOPLE - To identify, record and understand more about the lives and times of the Engineers and their Firms who founded the industry during the industrial revolution and developed it during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. PUBLICATIONS
- To record and /or archive a
selection of relevant written
material such as books, catalogues, magazines,
newspaper articles of
the day,
drawings, photographs, illustrations, pictures and
paintings, for
future generations to be able to read and enjoy. PRODUCTS - To ensure wherever possible that important examples of plant, machinery, equipment and other components are preserved in appropriate Museums and also to make a photographic record and /or archive details of other items of equipment before they are removed and destroyed. PATENTS - To identify and record the names of the people and their inventions or ideas who were the first persons to establish the principles upon which our industry was founded. PROPERTIES
- To create a photographic database inventory
of
buildings that have a distinguished history, where
the building engineering
services
used a new innovative design concept or where a
new item of plant or
equipment
was first installed.
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Other aims of the group include researching how Engineers and Firms operated in this formative time period by understanding:-
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To
increase the awareness of all Engineers to this
period in our
industry's
history from its beginnings in the 1700's, through
the 1800's and into
the early 1900's. To
ensure that
before further original plant and /or equipment is
removed, replaced
and
eventually destroyed it can be photographed and
/or video recorded for
future
generations to view and enjoy. To
preserve our country's industrial heritage, by
arranging wherever
possible for the
conservation and preservation of important
historical items of plant,
equipment or systems. To
visit buildings and centres of special historical
interest. To
widen peoples
interest and understanding of our industry's
historical past by
providing technical papers and talks.
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