I am looking for 10 solid tavern goers who are interested in an immersion weekend and willing to travel to Albany, NY. On August 8, the Admiral of the Blue Apron will be hosting an immersion weekend on 18th Century beverages and tavern culture. The program will include a full tavern in a fully restored …
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The Regimental Brewmeister needs to recruit one or two people to help with upcoming paid events. Most events are in the general Philadelphia area but some require travel. Brewers: Learn to brew as an 18th Century Journeyman brewer. Talk to the public about beer, brewing, and sanitation in the 18th Century. Serve samples. Tavern Keepers: …
An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system, demonstrating the motions of the planets and their satellites around the sun. Orreries were regarded as essential teaching equipment for 18th-century lectures on “natural philosophy” (the physical sciences). Such apparatus became popular from around 1700, when John Rowley built one for patron the Charles Boyle, …
In 1767, the American astronomer and mathematician David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) described a pocket thermometer that contained a bimetallic mechanism. Bimetallic or deformation thermometers depended on different expansion rates of two metal strips set into a curl. As the temperature changed, the curvature of the metal curls also changed and moved a pointer along a marked …
Wood swells and shrinks about 80 times as much around the growth rings relative to the same section of wood along the length of the fiber. This causes wood of certain cuts to warp when exposed to high humidity. As a clockmaker, this phenomenon greatly frustrated David Rittenhouse so he sought to understand it. Taking …
I am looking for 10 solid tavern goers who are interested in an immersion weekend and willing to travel to Albany, NY. On August 8, the Admiral of the Blue Apron will be hosting an immersion weekend on 18th Century beverages and tavern culture. The program will include a full tavern in a fully restored …
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The Regimental Brewmeister needs to recruit one or two people to help with upcoming paid events. Most events are in the general Philadelphia area but some require travel. Brewers: Learn to brew as an 18th Century Journeyman brewer. Talk to the public about beer, brewing, and sanitation in the 18th Century. Serve samples. Tavern Keepers: …
I am looking for 10 solid tavern goers who are interested in an immersion weekend and willing to travel to Albany, NY. On August 8, the Admiral of the Blue Apron will be hosting an immersion weekend on 18th Century beverages and tavern culture. The program will include a full tavern in a fully restored …
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The Regimental Brewmeister needs to recruit one or two people to help with upcoming paid events. Most events are in the general Philadelphia area but some require travel. Brewers: Learn to brew as an 18th Century Journeyman brewer. Talk to the public about beer, brewing, and sanitation in the 18th Century. Serve samples. Tavern Keepers: …
I am looking for 10 solid tavern goers who are interested in an immersion weekend and willing to travel to Albany, NY. On August 8, the Admiral of the Blue Apron will be hosting an immersion weekend on 18th Century beverages and tavern culture. The program will include a full tavern in a fully restored …
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Michael Carver -- Historical Interpreter/Reenactor 