BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2680769:Event:4482 DTSTAMP:20100106T162826Z SUMMARY:Benjamin Baker: Bridging the World DESCRIPTION:In the mid Nineteenth Century the small country town of Fr ome in Somerset was full of the noise, bustle and fumes of Victorian m etal works. Into these surroundings was born the visionary, global eng ineer Benjamin Baker.\n\nBaker was responsible for some of the most au dacious structures of the time. He designed the Forth Rail Bridge (for which he was knighted by Queen Victoria); the Aswan Dam; the metal cy linder that brought Cleopatra’s Needle back from Alexandria to Londo n, the cut-and-cover tunneling system for the London Underground and t he Hudson Tunnel Shield and second phase between New York and New Jers ey\n\nThis June and July, thanks to Heritage Lottery funding, and supp ort from the Happold Trust, the Institution of Structural Engineers an d the Institution of Civil Engineers, Benjamin Baker will be celebrate d back in his home town with the first ever exhibition exploring his w ork. The exhbition includes images of Baker’s most famous achievemen t, the mile long Forth Rail Bridge under construction. At the time the longest bridge in the world, these little known photographs show an i ndustrial masterpiece - the first ever steel bridge - in the making fr om 1883 to it’s completion in 1890.\n\nThese were taken by his assis tant Evelyn George Carey, and printed from the original 12 by 1 5 inch glass negatives held in the National Archives of Scotland. His pictures will be shown in the galleries of Frome’s Rook Lane Chapel alongside rarely seen vintage prints, on loan from Getty Images, of tw o of Baker’s other remarkable projects, the transportation of Cleopa tra’s Needle and the construction of the Aswan Dam\n\nFor more infor mation visit http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/events/benjamin-baker -bridging-the DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090611T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090723T235900 CATEGORIES:"exhibition:", the, engineer, and, engineer-photographer LOCATION:Rook Lane Arts Centre WEBSITE:http://www.rooklanearts.org.uk/ URL:http://www.rooklanearts.org.uk/ CONTACT:00 44 [0]1373 468040 ORGANIZER;CN=michaelg:http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profile/mich aelg ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com/files/yDi297nYgUt3xEgi 2IWOUDoty8Xa9m*yKq6kYZbjkRd9-VKFPs1HtDV1bd8WeFJwM0ySKv-RDPe6N9YiPEmOWS PqsxwRJ6wC/_G102624.jpg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN=michaelg: http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profile/michaelg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR