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15.05.13
ERIH Annual Conference 2013 - Save the date - Call for papers now open
ERIH Annual Conference 2013 – Back in the Ruhr
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Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
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Parcours thématique de l’eau
Y a-t-il un pays européen plus marqué par sa relation à l’eau que les Pays Bas ? C’est sans doute la raison pour laquelle les techniques hydrauliques s’y sont développées en premier. Au début du 17e siècle, dans le nord de la Hollande, on commença à retirer des terres à l’eau, motivé par deux objectifs : gagner de nouvelles terres de culture et mieux se protéger des inondations. La petite commune de Beemster près d’Amsterdam en est un bon exemple.
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Argenta | Ecomuseum of Argenta |
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via Cadinale-Luc | Argenta | Italy |
| The ecomuseum at Argenta is a federation of several museums and nature reserves that interprets and provides access to some of the lands reclaimed in the delta of the River Po in the early 20th centur... plus >> |
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Augsburg | Watertowers close to Red Gate |
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Rotes Tor 1 | 86153 Augsburg | Germany |
| In the mid-nineteenth century the citizens of Augsburg had a better supply of water than those of most European cities, and some of the means of delivering that supply dated from the fifteenth and six... plus >> |
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Berlin | Friedrichshagen Waterworks |
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Müggelseedamm 301-307 | 12587 Berlin | Germany |
| The Friedrichshagen Waterworks in Berlin was considered the largest and most modern of its kind in Europe when it was completed in 1888. Its various buildings are dispersed in a park-like setting on t... plus >> |
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Brentford | Kew Bridge Steam Museum |
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Green Dragon Lane | TW8 0EN Brentford | Great Britain |
| Cette machine à vapeur est tellement gigantesque qu’on peut passer debout sous le bras de son balancier alors qu’elle est en plein service avec force bruits. A l’origine, elle devait pomper lâ€... plus >> |
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Cambridge | Musée technologique de Cambridge |
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The Old Pumping StationCheddars Lane | CB5 8LD Cambridge | Great Britain |
| Alongside the well-known Cambridge of dreamy medieval colleges and spires, lies the first pumping station in the world powered by re-processed household waste. Before the pumping station was built in ... plus >> |
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Cornellà de Llobregat | Museu Agbar de les Aigües |
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Ctra. de St. Boi, 4-6 | 08940 Cornellà de Llobregat | Spain |
| The Museu Agbar de les Aigües is situated in the premises of the Central Cornellà , at the original plant which was constructed to extract water from the Llobregat aquifer, and pump it to the city of... plus >> |
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Downham Market, Norfolk | Denver Sluice |
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Denver | Downham Market, Norfolk | Great Britain |
| Denver Sluice was designed originally in 1651 to bar tidal water from the low fen areas and to improve navigation.
Denver lock is the main navigation structure linking the south Level River system... plus >> |
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Edessa | Open air water museum |
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Parko Katarakton | 58200 Edessa | Greece |
| Edessa,near to Mount Pella in central Macedonia in the northern part of Greece, is built around the cascading waters of the stream called Edhessaios Potomos, from which power has been drawn for many f... plus >> |
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Ely, Cambridgeshire | Prickwillow Drainage 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... plus >> |
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Engelskirchen | Musée rhénan filature Ermen & Engels |
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Engels-Platz | 51766 Engelskirchen | Germany |
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Haarlemmermeer | Musée De Cruquius |
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Cruquiusdijk 27 | 2142 ER Haarlemmermeer | Netherlands |
| Le roi des Pays-Bas Guillaume 1er avait le choix entre 240 moulins à vent et trois centrales aspirantes à vapeur. Il fallait faire vite : chaque année de violentes tempêtes rongeaient les rives de... plus >> |
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Heimbach | Centre d’information de l’eau région Eifel |
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Karl-H.-Krischer-Platz 1 | 52396 Heimbach | Germany |
| It bubbles, roars and sprays. Visitors to the Eifel Water Information Centre (WIZE) come up against it, even before they have entered the building. Once inside a system of pipes lead guests through th... plus >> |
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Helsinki | Museum of Technology |
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Viikintie 1 | 00560 Helsinki | Finland |
| Finland’s museum of technology, founded in 1969 and opened in 1975, occupies the premises built in the 1870s for the City of Helsinki Water Board, which are magnificently situated on the island call... plus >> |
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Hereford | The Waterworks Museum Hereford |
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Broomy Hill | WR4 0LQ Hereford | Great Britain |
| Nowadays we take the purity of tap water for granted. Yet less than 150 years ago this was the exception rather than the rule, and polluted water supplies were often the cause of disease. Life expect... plus >> |
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Jalhay | Gileppe dam |
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Route de la Gileppe 55A | 4845 Jalhay | Belgium |
| The Gileppe dam at the confluence of the rivers Vesdre (Weser) and Getz was built in 1867-76 to supply drinking water to Eupen, parts of the Liege region and Verviers, where the woollen industry neede... plus >> |
