Join IMechE archivist, Lucy Bonner, as she takes us on a journey of discovery through the facts and key locations that lead to the Institution’s founding 175 years ago.
Lucy’s journey begins within the heart of IMechE HQ, at our library in Westminster and moves onto the Lickey Incline in Bromsgrove (the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain), the Queen’s Hotel in Birmingham (now the building site of the HS2 high speed railway) and finishes at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Here Lucy meets some of our Birmingham based members to discuss the rich engineering heritage in the Midlands and ask how they feel the role of engineering has changed over the years. What does our future look like? How can mechanical engineering aid humanity?
Find out more about the Institution's upcoming 175th Anniversary plans: https://imeche.org/175
Historical information is taken from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers archives and ‘Progress through Mechanical Engineering’ by John Pullin (1997).
With thanks to the Black Country Living Museum: https://bclm.com/ and IMechE Midland Region members John Butler, Lewis McGregor, Nikhil Chelorakandy and Matt Pugh.
With thanks to https://www.hs2.org.uk/ for HS2 site footage.
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