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What drives us forward. European Theme Route Energy
From the Middle Ages until the late 19th century water and wind supplied the driving power for a huge variety of engines. Windmills dominated the flat lands of northwest Europe. In the 18th century around a thousand mills were standing alongside the banks of the River Zaan, near the trading centre of Amsterdam. They were used to process timber, flour and paper, and not least raw materials from abroad like tobacco and cocoa. For this reason the region around Zaandam is widely recognized as being one of Europe's earliest industrial areas.
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Dortmund | DASA - German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition |
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Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25 | 44149 Dortmund | Germany |
| If you don’t believe that office work is bad for your health you should try the so-called “compulsory posture”, a kind of corset which imitates the unnatural position adopted by most people when... more >> |
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Dortmund | Hansa Coking Plant |
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Emscherallee 11 | 44369 Dortmund | Germany |
| For outsiders the Hansa coking plant was a forbidden city for more than 60 years. Its roads and bridges were permeated with the smell of tar, its buildings and towers covered with layers of coal dust,... more >> |
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Douglas | Manx Museum |
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Manx National HeritageLaxey | IM1 3LY Douglas | Great Britain |
| The Lady Isabella water wheel at Laxey is 22m in diameter, and is reputedly the largest in the world. It was designed by Robert Casement, began work on 27 September 1854, and operated pumps in nearby ... more >> |
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Downham Market, Norfolk | Denver Windmill |
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Denver | PE38 0EG Downham Market, Norfolk | Great Britain |
| Denver Windmill is one of the finest examples of a working English tower mill. Once again Denver Windmill is milling wheat to produce flour in the traditional way using wind power only. The wind mill ... more >> |
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Ely, Cambridgeshire | Prickwillow Engine Museum |
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Main StreetPrickwillow | CB7 4UN Ely, Cambridgeshire | Great Britain |
| Tucked inside this tiny village, almost lost in the immense fenland landscape, is a fascinating industrial story. Prickwillow is a former diesel pumping station built to drain the fens.
Man´s stru... more >> |
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Engelskirchen | Rhineland Industrial Museum Ermen & Engels Cotton Mill |
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Engels-Platz | 51766 Engelskirchen | Germany |
| When Friedrich Engels, the son of a Wuppertal textile manufacturer, visited Manchester during the early years of the industrial revolution he was shocked by the working conditions in the factories. In... more >> |
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Fakenham, Norfolk | Fakenham Museum of Gas & Local History |
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Hempton Road | NR21 7LM Fakenham, Norfolk | Great Britain |
| At one time, every town and city in the United Kingdom had its own Gas Works producing Town Gas from coal. The process was originally developed by the inventive William Murdock. Murdock worked for Bou... more >> |
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Funchal | Museum of Electricity |
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Rua Casa da Luz 2 | 9050 Funchal | Portugal |
| Electricity was generated for street lighting in Funchal, principal city of the Madeira islands, from 1897. The museum, located in the Central Termica do Funchal, the original power station, was estab... more >> |
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Greenfield | Greenfield Valley |
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Basingwerk House | SH8 7GH Greenfield | Great Britain |
| A powerful spring, that in the middle ages was credited with religious significance, bursts out of the hillside near the town of Holywell and flows 3 km down the Greenfield Valley to the estuary of th... more >> |
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Haarlem | EBH-terrain |
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Minckelersweg 3 | 2031 EM Haarlem | Netherlands |
| The EBH-terrain is currently being redeveloped. In the monumental buildings dance-events and fashionshows as well as (business)fairs are organised. EBH, also knows as The Lichtfabriek is a popular pla... more >> |
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Hagen | LWL Open Air Museum of Handicrafts and Science |
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Mäckingerbach | 58091 Hagen | Germany |
| The piercing pounding of the mighty scythe rings through the green valley of the Mäckinger stream – no wonder that the old blacksmiths suffered from deafness. Other locations are also full of activ... more >> |
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Helsinki | Seurasaari Open Air Museum |
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00250 Helsinki | Finland |
| Finland’s national open air museum was established, like those of other Scandinavian countries, in the period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part o... more >> |
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Hengelo | Museum of Technology HEIM |
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Industriestraat 9 | 7553 CK Hengelo | Netherlands |
| How does a farming hamlet grow into an industrial town? The Educational Industrial Museum in Hengelo will give you the answer. Its theme is the industrial development of the town of Hengelo in the wes... more >> |
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Hobro | The Danish Gas Museum |
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Gasvǽrksvej 2 | 9500 Hobro | Denmark |
| The gasworks of 1898 at Hobro, a small town at the head of the Mariager Fjord in north Jutland was adapted as the national museum of the gas industry in Denmark and opened in 2002. The first gas plant... more >> |
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Horsens | Museum of Workers, Craftsmen and Industry |
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Gasvej 17 | 8700 Horsens | Denmark |
| Horsens is a city with long commercial and industrial traditions. The Museum of Workers, Craftsmen and Industry was opened in 1977 in the municipal power station building of 1906. Displays including s... more >> |
