A short video highlighting objects held in the ICE Scotland Museum collection and their associations with eminent civil engineers (4:30 minutes)
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World-beating achievements
A short video highlighting some world-beating civil engineering achievements through objects held by the museum (4:43 minutes)
Traffic count recorders
A short video featuring some early automatic traffic count recorders used by Lothian Regional Council (Scotland) from the 1960s (3:54 minutes)
Aids to calculation
A short video featuring some mechanical and manual calculators held in the collection and used as aids to calculation for engineers (4:26 minutes)
Surveyors’ chains and tapes
A short video featuring measuring chains and tapes held by the museum and used by civil engineers and land surveyors (4:39)
Celebrating 50 Years
The museum was founded over 50 years ago in 1971: this short video made in 2021 celebrates this achievement in 20 objects (7:47 minutes)
Why do land surveyors have to thank the National Gallery of Scotland?
Indeed, why do they? Well, it’s because the north-east side of the Gallery was used to calibrate land chains. A series of brass plates were embedded in the base of the building to facilitate calibration of land chains manufactured to measure distance in links or feet. For more information on this see here.
Donation of Tellurometers
The museum has just acquired a pair of Tellurometer MRA3 distance measurers used by the British Antarctic Survey in the early 1970’s (see here).
Giant Cranes built by Sir William Arrol & Co Ltd – a Unique List
A unique list of giant cranes built by Sir William Arrol & Company Ltd (titled Sir William Arrol Giant Cranes [undated]). compiled by the late Dr Brian Newman was recently added to the collection. The list provides [Completion] Year, Customer, Max Load, Height of Lift, Working Radius, Slew Roller Path and Remarks. See here.
Enjoy a stay in Dalkeith Water Tower
Dalkeith Water Tower is a significant Scottish historical civil engineering landmark built in 1879. The tower was internally stripped and converted to a dwelling in the late 1980s. Today (2024) it can now be rented as a holiday let. All levels in the tower are accessed by a spiral staircase located on one side of […]