american textile history museum, lowell, mass

Diane KaylorASME History and Heritage

ASME Core Value:

Respect and document engineering history while continually embracing change

www.asme.org/history

Landmarks

• began in 1971

• added Heritage Sites and Heritage Collections in 1986

• average 7 ceremonies a year

• 227 to date

mechanical power production (water, steam, IC), minerals extraction and refining, music, power transmission, pumping, rail transportation, research and development, retail, road and off-road transportation, safety, solid waste, textile, water transportation, wind power production

agriculture, air and space transportation, biomedical engineering, communications and data processing, education, electrical power production (water, steam, IC, nuclear, geothermal), entertainment, environmental control, food processing, manufacturing, materials handling and excavation,

Commemorative Brochures

• prepared by nominator

• reviewed by H&H Committee

• published by nominator

• time intensive

Upcoming ASME Landmarks

• Cameron MO-BOP, Houston, Texas, July 14

• Philo 6 Supercritical Steam Station, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 7

• Montana Western gasoline-electric rail motorcar #31 (Great Northern #2313), Mid-Continent Railway Museum, North Freedom, Wis., Aug. 16

2003 to date

• Eddystone Station, Philadelphia, May 17

• Rumely Agricultural Machines, La Porte, Indiana (Heritage Site), with ASAgE and Indiana Historical Bureau, March 15

2003 to date

• Wright Flyer III, Carillon Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 20

• Univ. of Fla. Solar Energy and Solar Conversion Laboratory (Heritage Site), Gainesville, Fla., Jan. 31

To be scheduled:

         USS/USCGC Glacier (AGB-4) Icebreaker, Calif./Conn.

         American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Mass.

         Technology Collection at the George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.

         Oil drill rig "Mr. Charlie," Morgan City, La.

         Automatic shrimp peeling machine, Marine and Seafood Museum, Biloxi, Miss.

Criteria:

• Mechanical Engineering

• Artifact, place, tool or practice

• Significant step forward in ME

• Contribution to humanity and profession

• Distinguished / unique

• Accessible / visible

• First recognition of historic ME by a professional society or historical organization

Landmarks promote

• achievement

• innovation

• human story

• engineering solutions

• progress

• an ASME event

•Accessible to individual members

•Newsworthy

•Continued mileage (permanence)

•Win-win

• Grassroots selection and support

• Rigorous nomination process

Sample Media Feedback (CY2002)

5 landmarks

19 placements / 1.4 million circulation

1% of overall print media clippings

Online roster had 20,000 visits

Diane KaylorASME History and Heritage