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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
Subject: “Measuring the benefits of industrial...
10.03.13
Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
More than 100 delegates from 15 European Countries attended the ERIH Conference 2012 in September...
21.02.13
Call for papers: Rust, Regeneration and Romance: Iron and Steel Landscapes and Cultures
International Conference Announcement and Call for Papers from the Ironbridge International...
Itinéraire thématique des transports
La révolution industrielle entraîna rapidement un changement radical dans les transports – en échange, le ronflement des nouveaux bateaux à vapeur et la fumée des locomotives accéléraient l’industrialisation. Le changement commença avec les routes fluviales qui, depuis des siècles, s’étaient avérées les plus efficaces pour assurer le transport des marchandises. Dans la région du textile du Lancashire, l’un des berceaux de l’ère industrielle, le canal Bridgewater fut achevé en 1761.
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Llangollen | Pontcysyllte Aqueduct |
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Gate RoadFroncysyllte | LL20 7 Llangollen | Great Britain |
| The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct carries the waterway originally called the Ellesmere Canal, but now the Llangollen Canal, some 38 m above the River Dee, and is 308 m long. It was completed in 1805 under the... plus >> |
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London | St Pancras Station |
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Pancras Road | NW1 2QP London | Great Britain |
| St Pancras station is one of the most distinguished railway termini in Europe, and from November 2007 has been the gateway between the railway systems of Great Britain and continental Europe.
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London | Tower Bridge |
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Tower Bridge | SE1 2UP London | Great Britain |
| Tower Bridge is the most iconic of the structures that cross the River Thames in London. Discussion of a crossing near to the Tower of London began in 1876. The design was brought forward by the City ... plus >> |
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London | National Museum of Science and Industry |
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Exhibition RoadSouth Kensington | SW7 2DD London | Great Britain |
| The Science Museum in London holds one of Europe’s greatest collections of artefacts relating to the history of science and industry. A collection of objects from the Great Exhibition of 1851was put... plus >> |
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London | London Transport Museum |
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39 Wellington Street | WC2E 7BB London | Great Britain |
| London’s complex transport system has its origins in horse bus services established in the early 19th century, and the slightly later ‘cut-and-cover’ underground railways, the first of which, th... plus >> |
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Losheim am See | Musée ferroviare de Losheim |
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Streifstraße | 66679 Losheim am See | Germany |
| Everything grinds to a halt if there are no viable roads or railways. The most important factor here is the return on investment. The small gauge railway belonging to the Wadern-Büschfelder Railway C... plus >> |
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Lucerne | Swiss Transport Museum |
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Lidostrass 5 | 6006 Lucerne | Switzerland |
| The Swiss Transport Museum stands on the shores of the Vierwaldstädter See (Lake Lucerne) alongside the St Gotthard railway. Its collection of steam locomotives includes a replica of Limmat, built at... plus >> |
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Lužna u Rakovnika | Czech Railways Museum |
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9 Kvĕtna | 27051 Lužna u Rakovnika | Czech Republic |
| Lužna u Rakovnika, on the edge of the Kinvoklát forest, a little more than an hour’s journey west of Prague on the railway to Chomutov, has since 1997 been the location of the museum of the Czech ... plus >> |
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Løkken | Orkla Industrial Museum |
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Torfinn Bjørnaas plass 2 | 7332 Løkken | Norway |
| The mines of Orkdal and Meldal near the town of Løkken, in South-Trondelage, 45 km south-west of Trondheim were worked for more than 300 years, initially for copper ores, but from 1851 principally fo... plus >> |
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Madrid | National Railway Museum |
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Paseo de la Delicias 61 | 28045 Madrid | Spain |
| Madrid’s Delicias station was built in 1880, with a 170m X 34m train shed whose wrought-iron construction was based on principles demonstrated at the Paris International Exhibition of 1878. Train se... plus >> |
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Madrid | Atocha Station |
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Glorieta del Emperador Carlos V | 28012 Madrid | Spain |
| The Atocha terminus is the largest in Madrid, but from the point of view of industrial heritage it consists of two separate stations which comprise one of the most extraordinary industrial heritage sp... plus >> |
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Magdeburg | Le croisement fluvial de Magdeburg avec l’élévateur de bateaux Rothensee |
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Am Schiffshebewerk | 39106 Magdeburg | Germany |
| Le 10 octobre 2003 était un jour particulier pour les habitants de Magdeburg et ses environs. Une foule de curieux assistait à l’inauguration du plus long pont-canal d’Europe qui se trouve aux p... plus >> |
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Magdeburg | Musée de la technique à Magdeburg |
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Dodendorfer Straße 65 | 39112 Magdeburg | Germany |
| Ce qui fédère les pièces de l’exposition au Musée de la technique à Magdeburg, c’est leur esprit pionnier. En témoigne par exemple la machine batteuse de la firme Zimmermann de Magdeburg qui... plus >> |
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Manchester | Musée de la Science et de l’Industrie à Manchester |
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Liverpool RoadCastlefield | M3 4FP Manchester | Great Britain |
| Voilà la mère de toutes les villes industrielles. Son nom est synonyme de premier capitalisme déchaîné, de misère sociale énorme, mais aussi de progrès indéniables. Par exemple le premier tra... plus >> |
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Mannheim | TECHNOSEUM. Museum of Technology and Labour |
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Museumstrasse 1 | 68165 Mannheim | Germany |
| The museum of technology and labour in Mannheim opened in 1990 in a Modernist building designed by the Berlin architect Ingeborg Kuhler. Its objective is to illuminate the process of industrialisation... plus >> |
