Society for Industrial Archeology info about the SIA Annual Meeting

Paper Sessions - Saturday, June 9, 2007

Session A - 8:15 am - 9:45 am

Panel A1: Fairmount Water Works: The Buildings, the Dam, the Jonval Turbine

Claire Donato, The Buildings of the Fairmount Water Works: Lessons in Adaptive Reuse
C. Drew Brown, Fairmount Dam: On the Frontier of Engineering Creativity
Jane Mork Gibson, The 1851 Jonval Turbine at Fairmount Water Works: An Experimental Success Story

Panel A2: West Point Foundry

T. Arron Kotlensky, Between, Mine, Forest, and Foundry: An Archaeological Study of the West Point Foundry Blast Furnace, Cold Spring, New York
Sam Sweitz, The Industrial Heritage of Puerto Rico: Including a Discussion of Some Unique West Point Foundry Machinery
Steven A. Walton, How to Install a Steam Engine in 1845: The West Point Foundry Engine at Mt. Savage Iron Works

Panel A3: Studies in Cement & Concrete

Dennis E. Howe, Research at the Whiteport, NY, Archeological Site and Synthesis of Rosendale Cement Manufacturing in the 19th Century
Andrew T. Rose, Johnstown Cement in 19th Century Western Pennsylvania
Sara E. Wermiel, John A. Roebling’s Sons Company’s Concrete Floors, 1892-1914

Break - 9:45am - 10:00 am

Session B - 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Panel B1: Philadelphia Sites

John R. Bowie, The John Grass Wood Turning Shop: An Outstanding, Surviving Example of Philadelphia as the Workshop of the World
Leonard Gutekunst and Gersil N. Kay, Philadelphia as a Center for Early Lighting Fixture Manufacturers
Douglas C. McVarish, Wilson Brothers and the Industrial Landscape of 19th Century Philadelphia
Marcia L. Weiss, Adaptations and Changing Contexts: The Intersecting Histories of the Philadelphia Textile Industry and Philadelphia University

Panel B2: Artifacts & Education

Matthew H. Hersch, The Artifact Program at Penn: Icons and Artifacts in an Undergraduate History of Technology Course
David Reinecke, From Big Guns to Big Steel: An Undergraduate Perspective on the “Artifact Project: Battleships”
Catherine A. Spohn, Archaeological Investigations at Joanna Furnace, Berks County, Pennsylvania: 1997-2006
Christopher H. Marston, Saving the Little Green Shed: A Journey through the Aviation History of Hagerstown

Panel B3: Theoretical Questions of Industrial Archeological Investigations

Laurel L. Cornell, Design Standards and the Size of American Roads: An Analysis based on the AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) “Green Books”
Mathias Henrik Mortenson, The Role of the Sublime in the Evaluation of Industrial-Historical Objects
Efstathios Pappas, An Industrial Oasis: Identity Politics in the Railroad Section Landscape
Amy S. Roache, French or British? British or French? Reinterpreting 18th Century Blacksmiths at Fort Michilimackinac

Lunch and Annual SIA Business Meeting - 12:15 pm - 2:15 pm

Session C - 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Panel C1: Business Practices

Thomas E. Leary, History in Motion: The 8” Bar Mill at McDonald Steel
Loren Michael, Hydropower in Imperial India: The Kaveri Transboundary Watershed
David S. Rotenstein, Make or Buy: Family Firms, Integration, and Networks in the 19th Century Leather Industry
Clifford W. Zink, Legacy of a Great Industry: The John A. Roebling’s Sons Company, Trenton and Roebling, New Jersey

Panel C2: Western Industrial Landscapes

Robert McQueen, Anatomy of the Cortez Mining District, North-Central Nevada
Kimberly Finch, Painting the Landscape Black: The Charcoal Industry in the Pine Nut Mountains
Alicia Valentino, Boom and Bust in Nevada’s Mining Industry: White Pine County and the Town of Taylor
Paul J. White, My Pard, the Indian Prince: Timbisha Shoshone Involvement in Death Valley Mining

Panel C3: Issues in Preservation & Interpretation