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ASHET, the Australian Society for History of Engineering and Technology, was formed with thirty members in 2003. ASHET now has around one hundred members, in all parts of Australia, though the majority live in Sydney.
ASHET is a non-profit association incorporated in New South Wales. It is affiliated with the Royal Australian Historical Society. Its objects are to encourage and promote community interest and education in the history of engineering and technology in Australia.
ASHET presents a regular program of around ten meetings each year in Sydney in association with the Royal Australian Historical Society with talks on topics related to the history of engineering and technology. Non-members are welcome to attend these meetings. ASHET also organises visits and tours to places of interest. In 2009 ASHET ran, in association with the RAHS, a two-week study tour of outback New South Wales including Broken Hill, Wentworth and Lake Mungo.
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NEXT ASHET EVENTS
Saturday 31 July 2010
Visit to Sydney Trades Hall
Sydney Trades Hall was established by the developing trade union movement in NSW. The building was first begun in 1888 with the final meeting hall finished in 1917. A large scale refurbishment was completed in 2007.
Trades Hall has been home to many unions over the years. In the late 1940s there were 88 separate offices in the building. It houses a large collection of items, including banners, badges, photographs and items that provide links with the world-wide trade union movement.
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Tuesday 3 August 2010
Talk by Ann Moyal
The Telegraph revisited
To a nation the size of Australia, the telegraph was the most important technological innovation of the nineteenth century. Ann Moyal, author of Clear across Australia: a history of telecommunications, will speak of the way the telegraph transformed human society, business, transport, trade, the media, scientific communication, and all the processes of the economy in Australia and begat the information age.
This is a joint activity of ASHET and the Royal Australian Historical Society
Read all the details and book for this event by clicking here…
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No Darling Downs tour this year
Following the very successful two week tour in 2009 to Outback NSW,
ASHET and the Royal Australian Historical Society planned a similar
tour to the Darling Downs for August this year. Because we needed a
minimum number of participants to share the cost of coach hire, we
advertised among our members and members of RAHS for expressions
of interest, before making firm commitments. Unfortunately the response
fell well short of the minimum number of participants we needed, so we
are unable to proceed with the tour.
We are still hopeful that we will find a way of running the tour in
2011.
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