BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20161106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160927T151603Z UID:DAF71079-4D3B-11E6-B1DA-0050568D2FB3 DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20161001T090000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20161001T160000 DESCRIPTION:Yankee Steam-Up is a fun\, fascinating and historic event -- jo in us in rural Rhode Island on Saturday\, October 1\, with local steam hob byists and lots of engineering memorabilia as the IEEE Providence Section hosts an event at the New England Wireless and Steam Museum in East Greenw ich\, RI. See Museum website at http://www.newsm.org/steam-up\n\nReservati ons: Prices are as follows: Member and one guest: $10 each. Student member and one guest: $5 each. One or two children accompanying a member or stud ent member: $5 each. Children (age 6 and under): free. Reservations may be made online or with Cathy Ann Clark at cathy.clark@navy.mil. Deadline for reservations or cancellations subject to availability is Friday\, Septemb er 30\, 2016.\n\nFood will be available for sale at the Museum.\n\nThis mu seum is especially interesting to IEEE as our current Institute is the com ing together of three electrical societies. Two were based on Radio\, the first of which was the Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers\, “the Sw atties”\, formed in 1907 at MIT by John Stone. Walter Massie of Providen ce was a charter Swatty member. In 1912 the Swatties joined a New York cit y radio society to form IRE. Walter Massie was also a charter member of IR E\, which some 50 years later merged with AIEE to form IEEE. Massie was bo rn in 1872\, the same year as Marconi\, and he was an active wireless work er by the late 1890’s. The New England Wireless and Steam Museum display s a coherer receiver which he built in 1899. Of more importance the museum also displays the complete two and one half story coastal wireless statio n\, “PJ” which Massie built in 1907. This station with its working ori ginal equipment\, is the oldest surviving wireless station in the world. I t’s a kind of a Plymouth Rock to the electronics industry and as such it is on the National Register of Historic Places. By 1909 Massie had outfit ted a chain of coastal wireless stations reaching from Chatham\, MA down t he Atlantic Coast and up the Pacific Coast including seven stations in Ala ska. He also outfitted the steamer President in 1908 which was the first c ommercial steamer equipped with wireless to travel in the Pacific Ocean. A lso at the museum is an 1895 DeLaVergne oil engine of the kind Marconi use d to power his 1903 station at Wellfleet. Other items of electrical intere st are pieces of Cyrus Field’s first Atlantic cable\, many early telegra ph and telephone items\, numerous spark transmitters and radios. In the st eam division of the museum you can see the only surviving George H. Corlis s\, 15’ flywheel\, steam engine working under live steam\; the city of H artford\, CT’s 1883 electric power plant\; and URI’s 1895 electric pow er plant in operation.\n\nDirections: To get to the museum\, located in th e SW corner of East Greenwich\, RI 02818\, take exit #8 South from US I-95 . This puts you on RI RT #2. Travel South on RI RT#2 a little over 2 miles to the stop light at Frenchtown Road. Turn right\, that is to the west\, on Frenchtown Road\, come up the hill about a mile to Tillinghast Road. Cr oss Tillinghast. Museum is on the left at 1300 Frenchtown Road. Gate is be tween two large oak trees.\n\nSpeaker(s): \, \, \, \n\nBldg: New England W ireless and Steam Museum\, 1300 Frenchtown Rd\, East Greenwich\, Rhode Isl and\, United States\, 02818 LOCATION:Bldg: New England Wireless and Steam Museum\, 1300 Frenchtown Rd\, East Greenwich\, Rhode Island\, United States\, 02818 ORGANIZER:cathy.clark@navy.mil SEQUENCE:13 SUMMARY:IEEE Providence Section at the New England Wireless and Steam Museu m Yankee Steam-Up URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/40517 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Yankee Steam-Up is a fun\,&nbsp\;fascinati ng and historic&nbsp\;event -- join us in rural Rhode Island on Saturday\, October 1\, with local steam hobbyists and lots of engineering memorabili a as the IEEE Providence Section hosts an event at the New England Wireles s and Steam Museum in East Greenwich\, RI. See Museum website at http://ww w.newsm.org/steam-up</p>\n<p>Reservations: Prices are as follows: Member a nd one guest: $10 each. Student member and one guest: $5 each. One or two children accompanying a member or student member: $5 each. Children (age 6 and under): free. Reservations may be made online or with Cathy Ann Clark &nbsp\;at cathy.clark@navy.mil. Deadline for reservations or cancellations subject to availability is Friday\, September 30\, 2016.</p>\n<p>Food wil l be available for sale at the Museum.</p>\n<p>This museum is especially i nteresting to IEEE as&nbsp\;our current Institute is the coming together o f three electrical societies. Two were based on Radio\, the first of which was the Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers\, &ldquo\;the Swatties&rd quo\;\, formed in 1907 at MIT by John Stone. Walter Massie of Providence w as a charter Swatty member. In 1912 the Swatties joined a New York city ra dio society to form IRE. Walter Massie was also a charter member of IRE\, which some 50 years later merged with AIEE to form IEEE. Massie was born i n 1872\, the same year as Marconi\, and he was an active wireless worker b y the late 1890&rsquo\;s. The New England Wireless and Steam Museum displa ys a coherer receiver which he built in 1899. Of more importance the museu m also displays the complete two and one half story coastal wireless stati on\, &ldquo\;PJ&rdquo\; which Massie built in 1907. This station with its working original equipment\, is the oldest surviving wireless station in t he world. It&rsquo\;s a kind of a Plymouth Rock to the electronics industr y and as such it is on the National Register of Historic Places. By 1909 M assie had outfitted a chain of coastal wireless stations reaching from Cha tham\, MA down the Atlantic Coast and up the Pacific Coast including seven stations in Alaska. He also outfitted the steamer President in 1908 which was the first commercial steamer equipped with wireless to travel in the Pacific Ocean. Also at the museum is an 1895 DeLaVergne oil engine of the kind Marconi used to power his 1903 station at Wellfleet. Other items of e lectrical interest are pieces of Cyrus Field&rsquo\;s first Atlantic cable \, many early telegraph and telephone items\, numerous spark transmitters and radios. In the steam division of the museum you can see the only survi ving George H. Corliss\, 15&rsquo\; flywheel\, steam engine working under live steam\; the city of Hartford\, CT&rsquo\;s 1883 electric power plant\ ; and URI&rsquo\;s 1895 electric power plant in operation.</p>\n<p>Directi ons: To get to the museum\, located in the SW corner of East Greenwich\, R I 02818\, take exit #8 South from US I-95. This puts you on RI RT #2. Trav el South on RI RT#2 a little over 2 miles to the stop light at Frenchtown Road. Turn right\, that is to the west\, on Frenchtown Road\, come up the hill about a mile to Tillinghast Road. Cross Tillinghast. Museum is on the left at 1300 Frenchtown Road. Gate is between two large oak trees.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR