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Below is the tentative schedule of presentation sessions for the Society for Industrial Archeology’s 54th Annual Conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Presentations take place Saturday, May 30 at the Hilton Norfolk The Main.

Presentation Abstracts (PDF download)

Morning Session I (8:00 – 8:50 AM)
Preserving Virginia’s Hydraulic Heritage
8:00 – 8:50 AM

• “From Pump House to Power Plant: The Industrial Heritage of Richmond’s Original Waterworks” – Penn Markham
• “A Change in Direction: Opposing Bevel Gears and their use in Early Tide Mill Waterwheel Control Mechanisms” – Charles Parrott

Forge & Furnace: Working by Flame
8:00 – 8:50 AM

• “Craft Practice in the Delaware Mine Blacksmith Shop” – Lucy Gibbs
• ‘Women’s economic activity at Hopewell Furnace” – Brian Schmult

Mining & Motor Towns: A Global View
8:00 – 8:50 AM

• “ENACAR Ruins in Lota: de-industrialization, abandonment, and potential risks of a coal mining center in Chile” – Josefina de la Barra Rosmanich
• Motor towns and the automotive heritage. A comparison of case studies of Detroit and Turin – Rossella Maspoli

Morning Break I (8:50 – 9:05 AM)

Morning Session II (9:05 – 9:55 AM)
Putting Steam Out of Work
9:05 – 9:55 AM

• “Running on Air: The Story of Pneumatic Locomotives” – Marty Johnston
• “Early American Gasoline Locomotives” – Dan Quine 

Objects From the Past and The Stories They Tell
9:05 – 9:55 AM

• “The Industry That Kept Rotting Horses off the Streets of NYC” – Lia De Feo
• ‘The Legacy of Indirect Costs: Artifacts from Coal Piers and Nuclear Submarine Development” – Tyler Turpin

Rising from the Rubble: Fire, Failure, & Redevelopment
9:05 – 9:55 AM

• “First to Flight but Lost to Fire: The Dream, Decline, and Destruction of the Wright Company Factory in Dayton, Ohio”- Lurita Blank
• “After Designation: Redevelopment Conditions at the American Viscose Plant” – Armin Firouzi

Morning Break II (9:55 – 10:15 AM)

Morning Session III (10:15 – 11:30 AM)

Bridge Innovations: Rehabilitation, Research, & Regulation
10:15 – 11:30 AM

• “Dunlap Creek Bridge: Completing Rehabilitation of America’s First Cast Iron Bridge’ – Keith Heinrich
• “Roebling Before the Brooklyn Bridge – 3D printed Studies” – Paul King
• “Moving Towards the Future.   Case Studies in the Rehabilitation of Chicago’s Bascule Bridges and the SOI Standards for Working Industrial Structures” – Meg Kindelin

Nuclear Testing during the Cold War on the Nevada National Security Site
10:15 – 11:30 AM

• “‘Atomic Weapons Effects on AD Type Aircraft in Flight’, Identifying a Douglas Skyraider Crash Site in Nevada” – Jeffrey Wedding
• “G-Tunnel: An Underground Testing Complex at the Nevada National Security Site” – Tatianna Menocal, Jeffrey Wedding, Nicole Brannan and Laura O’Neill
• “The Huron King Test Chamber: A Specialized Cold War-era Property on the Nevada National Security Site” – Gregory Haynes, Jeffrey Wedding and Laura O’Neill

Industrial Afterlives: From Active Site to Heritage Asset
10:15 – 11:30 AM

• “Tracing Copper Extraction at the Delaware Mine: A Landscape Archaeological Approach” – Jamie Fidler
• “Mapping Industry Through Form: The Vernacular Architecture and Industrial Archeology of Louisiana’s Salt Mining Landscape” – Robert McKinney
• “Revisiting and Analyzing Inventories of Industrial Sites in Michigan” – Makenna M Long

 

Lunch Business Meeting (11:30 AM – 2:00 PM)

Afternoon Session I (2:15 – 3:30 PM)

Perspectives on Maritime Innovation and Change: 3D Modeling Ships & Shipwrecks (1845-1917)
2:15 – 3:30 PM

• “A Wreck in a Wreck: Using 3-D Modeling to Decipher USS Picket, 1845-1862” – Rebecca Kelley
• “’This new craft will be a monitor…’: Constructing a Digital Model of the USS Monitor” – Matthew Pawelski
• “From Sealer to Cutter to Icebreaker: Charting Maritime Technological Adaptation through the 3D Reconstruction of Bear (1874-1963)” – Raymond Phipps
• “Blueprint to Vessel: Comparing Hough-Type Construction Plans to North Bend’s Archaeological Evidence” – Ian R Shoemaker

Bombs to Plowshares: Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Power
2:15 – 3:30 PM

“The Pluto Program and its Test Facilities at the Nevada National Security Site” – Nicole Brannan, Tatianna Menocal and Laura O’Neill

“Exploring Space at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station” – Laura O’Neill

“Virginia and Nuclear Ship Savannah, the World’s First Nuclear-powered Merchant Ship” – Erhard Koehler

Nuts, Bolts, & Narratives: The American Textile Story
2:15 – 3:30 PM

• “The Roots of American Power Loom Weaving – Part I” – McKay Whatley
• “The Roots of American Power Loom Weaving  – Part II” – Patrick Malone
• “Power Looms and Incremental Innovation on the Shop Floor: The Unexamined Role of Loom Fixers and Weavers” – Gregory Fitzsimons 

Afternoon Break (3:30 – 3:45 PM)

Afternoon Session II (3:45 – 5:00 PM)

Perspectives on Maritime Innovation and Change: 3D Modeling Ships & Shipwrecks (1918-1979)
3:45 – 5:00 PM

• “Aowa (1918 – 1929): A Case Study into the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation Ferris Hull Design and Implementation” – Allyson Ropp
• “PC-1084 (1943–c.1960s): Wartime Construction, Postwar Conversion, and 3D Modeling of a World War II Subchaser” – Harley Drange
• “LCU-1524 Chapultepec (1954-1979): Adapting American Amphibious Craft After the Second World War” – Nathan Richards and Jeremy Borrelli

Inherited Burdens: Perspectives on Contamination & Remediation
3:45 – 5:00 PM

• “Mapping an Extinct Industry – Coal Gasification Plants in Massachusetts, 1820-1970.” – Thomas Speight and Allen Hatheway
• “Oysters, hydrographic surveys, and modern subaqueous soil surveys in Chesapeake Bay” – Barret Wessel
• “Vernon Smelter: Environmental Contamination from Secondary Lead Smelting” – Fred Quivik

The Nitty Gritty of Building Preservation
3:45 – 5:00 PM

• “From “Need for Speed” to “Patience for Preservation”: NASA Mission Control Center Precast Brise Soleil” – Racheal Lute
• “Ensuring Structural Continuity: Urban Maintenance Guided by Infrastructure Archives” – Yifeng Zhang