The 18th Australian Engineering Heritage Conference will be held in Newcastle from 7-9 December, hosted and organised by the Newcastle Division of EA and Engineering Heritage Australia. The conference venue is the Newcastle Museum, the site of engineering heritage exhibits including an 1826 fish-belly rail from Australia's first commercial coal mine and railway, and the world's only working rope-driven gantry crane, from 1885. Newcastle built its early success on technology imported mainly from Britain during the Industrial Revolution, and early technology transfer will be a primary theme for the conference, according to Engineering Heritage Australia (EHA).
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