Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation

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Charlie Rivers introduces our replica Power Loom

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We Hope to Welcome You to NextGEN STEMfest May 10th!

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Our Feathered Falcon Visitors—a History

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Today, April 7th, marks the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Francis Cabot Lowell

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You just can't tell a goose ANYTHING! This is NOT our Visitor Entrance!

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Intaking Gen Rad Condensers, Part of Our Recent Donation

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Keeping things running smoothly at the CRMII

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Say hello to the Bellowphone

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Our Lombard Governor

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Viewing the Waterbury Long Wind Watch

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The Importance of Teaching ALL of History

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Saying Goodbye to the Nichols "Bug"

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The 26th Annual New England Model Engineering Show March 15th, 2025!

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Inside our Telephone Switchboard!

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Our Recent Mill Talk: Negro Cloth, Enslaved People & the Legacy of Lowell Manufacturing

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Charlie Rivers introduces you to the Sturtevant Engine!

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The Amazing Inventor Margaret E Knight

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Fixing our Lineshaft System

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The First Black American Sports Star: Major Taylor

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Saw vs. Saw

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Industry 4 0

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Paul Moody's Line Shaft Innovation

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Mass Destruction With a Vengeance THIS SATURDAY Feb 25th!

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Replacing the Engine Room Clock

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Pat Caruso, Former Watchmaker for the Waltham Watch Co. Recounts His First Day on the Job

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Presenting the Humble Oil Can in its Natural Habitat

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Wet Plate Photography with Daniel Leocadi

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Explore the Charles River Museum

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A Mini Tour of Our Orient Buckboard

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Our Rhodes Shaper at work.

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Our WWC Church Upsetting Lathe

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Rearranging our Steam Power exhibit! (PART ONE)

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Our Machine Shop has a Huge History Behind It!

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The operation of our 1871 Waltham Watch Company Charles Vander Woerd Automatic Screw Machine

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Demoing our Brainerd Mill

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A Peek into Our Wayback Storage

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Mike Block, cellist, closes out our 2nd SHIFT season December 5th

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Horological Wheel-Cutting Engines, c.1860-1890

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How do centrifugal governors work?

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A lesson in mechanical power…

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Joy Clark performs November 21st at the Museum

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Coming Soon to the Charles River Museum!

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Fixing The Idler

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Joy Clark at the 2nd SHIFT Concert stage on November 21 8PM!

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What Was So Great About the Ford Model T?

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The Brainard Horizontal Mill

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Indexing Head of the Brainard Horizontal Mill

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Wed. Nov 13 7PM—Mill Talk: The Rosy Dawn of Industrialization: Distant Impacts by Early New England

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An Early Edison Commercial... Reinterpreted

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Wouldn't You Love to Ride Ella Cinders?

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A few tips about PARKING when coming to visit us for the first time!

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Steve Welcomes You to Our LEARNING CORNER! #waltham #learning #education #innovation #museum

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Christopher Paul Stelling Thursday 11/7 at the Charles River Museum's 2nd SHIFT Concert Series

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You Think Daylight Savings is a Pain at YOUR House??

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Some Things Are Not as They Seem...

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Saw is a HALLOWEEN CLASSIC!

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Our shaper has gone PSYCHO!!!

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What is Science Good for if it's Not MAD???????

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

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For Whom Our Bells Toll

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Marvel at the Marvel Draw Saw

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The Sounds of our Steam Whistles

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How do you get a locomotive going??

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The Governor's Here!

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What's a Musician's Favorite Type of Clock?

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Why it Pays to be Specific.

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The Charles River Collaboratory is NOW OPEN to the Public!

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There are ALL Types of Gears!

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100+ Year Old Socks, Made in the Mill We Call Home

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Course Corrector: ChopValue: Creating Circular Economies That Are Our Future

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Gears? Cogs? Which is What and What is Which?

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A View of a Watchmaker's Bench and Tools

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Waltham Engine No 1—Our Prized 1871 Amoskeag Steam Pumper Fire Engine

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Hide & Seek with Spot the Robot Dog!

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DANCING WITH THE STARS! Boston Dynamics' Spot puts on the moves!

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Cruisin' with Spot! the Museum visits Boston Dynamics!

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SECRETS OF THE CHAS. RIVER MUSEUM! A Dive into Our Wayback Storage

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SECRETS OF THE CHAS. RIVER MUSEUM! A Peek Behind the Curtain! Our Wayback Storage

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Operating the Shedd Engine #steamengine #livesteam #techtalk #engineering #machine #museum #waltham

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Caroline Spence at the 2024 Spring 2nd SHIFT

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Craft Beer for a Cause 2024! a suds-centric fundraiser for the Charles River Museum

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Mike & Ruthy at last Spring's 2nd SHIFT

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Waltham's WH Nichols Company and the Nichols Family

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The Howard Clock in Operation

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Winding the Howard Clock

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Water Power Was the Way #history #textilehistory #waltham

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MassDestruction: Resurgence TOO! Combat Robotics! #robotbattle #robotcombat #bots

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Our Education Space is Starting to Shape Up!

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Gerotors: The Gear Within a Gear That Many Said Was impossible

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The Tyranny of the Bell

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MILLPOWER (An Animated Educational Short Film Series): Part Three: The Bell

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The Importance of Women and the Telephone Switchboard Days!

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Charles H Metz and the First American-made Production Motorcycle! #motorcycles #antiquemotorcycles

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Saying Goodbye to the Old Heating Boiler

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MILLPOWER (An Animated Educational Short Film Series): Part Two: How the Mill Was Powered

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MILLPOWER (An Animated Educational Short Film Series): Part One: The Waltham Lowell System

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The All-Important Mill Girls—MILLPOWER: Waltham Lowell System #industry #history #textiles #waltham

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The Railroad Watch

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SALT, SILVER, and SUNBEAMS—Exploring the Timeless Art of Wet Plate Collodion Tintype Photography

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Mill Talk - New England Textiles: Sustaining the Tradition - 50 Years and Still Spinning