Heritage Open Days: Made in Sunderland - Ideas, Inventors, Innovators

An illustrated talk celebrating the people and companies associated with Sunderland that have helped to shape and make the world in which we live. Inventions: diesel engine, cantilever crane, hydraulic crane, miner's safety lamp, rope making machine, light bulb, liberty ships, SD14 ships. People: Dr Clanny, Frederick Crawley, TE Harrison, James Hartley, John Lilburne, Sir Joseph Swan, Sir William Mills, William Pile, The Venerable Bede, Sir Tom Cowie.

Suitable for
Any age


Website
www.heritageopendays.org.uk/directory/sunderland-museum-and-winter-gardens

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/ne000032?id=EVENT535832