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Fütterung der stymphalischen Vögel von Margret Lafontaine | Völklingen, World Heritage Site Voelklingen Iron Works
Ausstellung: Aluminium - Der Glanz der Moderne | Delmenhorst, Nordwolle
Ausstellung: Rivalen am Steuer–Automobilrennsport im Osten Deutschland | Zwickau, August Horch Museum
Exhibition: A Century of Olympic Posters | Telford, Coalbrookdale Gallery
Exhibition: American Dreams | Llanberis, National Slate Museum
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18.11.08

ERIH Annual Conference 2008 - "Old Iron is not enough"

The ERIH annual conference 2008 showed European industrial heritage as a success factor for tourism...


European Theme Routes

Such as "The treasures of the Earth": what, where, when and how were they extracted from the ground? Or "Textile manufacturing": the milestones along the way from fibre to factory. Or "Transport and Communication": retracing the tracks of the industrial revolution.

Theme Routes take up specific questions relating to European industrial history and reveal potential links between radically different industrial monuments all over Europe. The result is a "circuit diagram" of the common routes of European industrial heritage.

Textiles

The thousands of rattling bobbins on the spinning frames in cotton factories have become a byword for industrialisation.
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Mining

Coal from European and American collieries was the universal fuel during the Industrial Revolution.
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Iron and Steel

Two steps are needed to make iron and steel – the key materials of the industrial era - from iron ore.
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Manufacturing

Domestic handmade textile production was typical for the pre-industrial age.
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Energy

From the Middle Ages until the late 19th century water and wind supplied the driving power for a huge variety of engines.
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Transport & Communication

During the early years of the Industrial Revolution there was a radical change in transportation.
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Water

No European country has as close a relationship to water than the Netherlands.
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Housing & Architecture

The continuous improvement in the processing of iron and concrete during ...
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Service & Leisure Industry

The forerunners in France, from around the middle of the 19th century, were the large ...
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Industrial Landscapes

It was only around the end of the 19th century, with the second wave of industrialisation, ...
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