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This is at the very heart of onamission, giving industrial heritage a purpose and involvement of the next generation. The founder of onamission is passionate about industrial time keeping and instrumentation, but the interest is far broader than this. We where recently offered a 16 ton steam engine, used for 100 years within a timber mill. What possible use could you have for such an item, in a museum collecting dust? No the idea was to make an alternative fire works display, on a flat bed trailer, that could be used within concerts, fairs and public displays. The boiler is the fire, the thundering steam engine the acoustics, sparks from the early generator the twinkle in the sty and the contemporary twist, was the electric generated would fire a sky laser show.
The list is endless when you have the imagination and the right people to make it happen. Another example was a dis-used railway and the pilot idea of eco-routes, the Brixham Railway project, community led and funded. Here by giving the industrial heritage a purpose we give it a sustainable future. The last thing we need to do is hinder the next generation with industrial heritage to just look at, it needs to be alive, vibrant and evoke innovation. Encapsulated within every technology is expertise and knowledge, as good as any book. It needs an organisation to make it come alive so people can understand this and take the best from the past into the future. If you like the industrial heritage is a time capsule of the brilliance of the past. The simplicity of it makes it an ideal to teach contemporary technology and get complex system engineering concepts such as evolutionary design. The systematic approach we have is completely transferable, so you learn with the simple and progress to the modern. This allows a slow transfer of understanding which can be re-applied.
We are always looking for interesting items to form projects. If you wish to start a project or perhaps an installation, then contact us or join one of the clubs. We want the industrial heritage to have a purpose and valued by the next generation, its that simple. We want to change design to include re-use and products that last generations.
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