CIE Newsletter

[Sue Parker]

Dear Members and Friends,

                                                            Our next event is the CIE Heritage Conversazione on Tuesday 23rd September, a special event to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the CIE.  Please find attached the poster and programme.  We will be inviting our sponsors and special guests as well as you, our members and friends.  Please reply to me to reserve your place, and I hope to see many of you at this special event.

 

To commemorate our 150th anniversary, we have commissioned a stained glass window, that has been installed in St Cuthbert's Church in Marton, Middlesbrough.  See photo attached.  There will be a commemoration service to dedicate this window, at a date to be arranged, hopefully at the end of September.

 

Prior to the Heritage Conversazione, the CIE are having a stand at the ESEC conference (https://www.iom3online.org/iom/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=171001&eventID=376&eventID=376 ) organised by the IoM3.  Dates 15th - 17th September at Teesside University.  If anyone can spare time to be with the stand, that would be much appreciated, please contact me.

 

 

The IoM3 Younger Members’ Committee has named 2014 the Year of the Industrial visit, where IOM3 young members are invited to visit companies and Institutes around the UK.  

The next scheduled visit is to Tata Steel’s manufacturing site in Rotherham on Thursday 21 August.  

The visit will include a tour around the plant and the chance to see industrial-scale electric arc furnaces in action.   This is a unique opportunity to visit one of the largest steel processing facilities in the UK and learn about specialty steels used in a range of industries, including aerospace.

 

To attend, please email the Younger Members’ Committee ( y...@iom3.org ) by Thursday 7 August.  

 

 

Our friends at the Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society have just published a biography of Dr John Edward Stead, who was President of the CIE in 1984, President of the Iron & Steel Society (a fore-runner of the IoM3) in 1920-1, and a winner of the Bessemer Gold Medal. 

"METALLURGIST OF DISTINCTION"
A Biography of John Edward Stead F.R.S.
by
Peter H Scholes                 ISBN 978-0-905728-08-7

John Edward Stead (1851 – 1923), born on Tyneside England into the family of a non-conformist minister, was in 1865 apprenticed to the Newcastle chemist John Pattinson. From there he obtained work as a chemist with the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company at Hebburn on Tyne, relocating in 1871 to the Middlesbrough iron maker Bolckow Vaughan & Co. which was soon using a plant in Manchester to investigate the feasibility of producing Bessemer steel from Spanish ore. In 1876 he moved to establish in Middlesbrough an independent chemical practice with Pattinson. In this capacity he built a reputation for his probity, reliability and technical knowledge; he was to remain a partner in Pattinson and Stead for the rest of his life. As early as 1876 he also began to produce papers on topics pertaining to the iron and steel manufacturing processes. In time these came to range from chemical analytical techniques and physical methods for assessing properties, through the influence of various elements upon the resulting metal, to the use of metallic-surface examination (metallography) for understanding associated behaviour and attributes, a field which became of increasing importance from the 1890s and in which Stead was a significant contributor. Other features of his life and interests are delineated under the headings: beginnings of co-operative research in the steel industry, societies in Middlesbrough, the Cleveland Scientific and Technical Institution, other interests, the family of John stead, the Stead memorial hospital, concluding remarks, and bibliography listing 70 original published articles. It is clear that during the early 20th century John Stead FRS, living in Redcar and awarded doctorates by three English universities, was internationally recognised as an expert in his field.

Copies are available at £8 plus £2 P&P, or can be collected at any CIAS evening meeting and will be available on the CIAS Stand at The CIE Heritage Conversazione in September.  (For Postal purchases, please contact me at usual e-mail address.)

Enjoy the summer, and I hope to see you at an event soon.

 

Regards            Sue

Sue Parker  BSc(Dunelm),  CPhys,  FIMMM

Technical Events Officer

Cleveland Institution of Engineers

 

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