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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 du fer et de l’acier
Deux étapes mènent du minerai de fer au fer et à l’acier, les deux matières clé de l’époque industrielle : la fonte des minerais dans le haut fourneau donne du fer pur ; l’affinage de la fonte, c’est-à-dire la diminution de la teneur en carbone, donne ensuite du fer forgé ou de l’acier. Les deux étapes dépendent du combustible : le charbon de terre naturel n’est pas adapté à la fabrication du fer, parce que ses oligo-éléments, surtout le soufre, abîment le métal. C’est pourquoi on a longtemps utilisé le charbon de bois dans les fours de traitement et les feux de fonte ...
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Langreo | Museum of the Steel Industry |
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Ciudad Tecnológica Valnalón C/ Hornos Altos s/n | 33930 Langreo | Spain |
| Mining and the making of iron and steel were the principal economic activities from in Asturias from the mid-19th century until the closing years of the 20th century.
The Museum of the Steel Indus... plus >> |
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Le Creusot | Écomusée du Creusot-Montceau |
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Chateau de la Verrerie | 71200 Le Creusot | France |
| Le Creusot in Burgundy is a place of prime importance in the industrial history of Europe. In the 1780s ironworks and glassworks utilising technology from England were established there by William Wil... plus >> |
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Legazpi | Basque Iron Museum |
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Mirandaola ParkeaTelleriate auzoa, z/g | 20230 Legazpi | Spain |
| Legazpi, 45 km south-west of San Sebastian, is the chief town of the Urola-Garaia region. Ironmaking has a long history in the area, but the industry was of particular importance from the mid-nineteen... plus >> |
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Leverkusen | Musée d’industrie Freudenthaler Sensehammer |
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Freudenthal 68 | 51375 Leverkusen | Germany |
| The River Dhünn doesn’t look powerful enough to drive a factory. But it did just that for exactly two hundred years. And what a factory it is! The transmission wheels alone are gigantic. And the ma... plus >> |
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Lichterfeld | La mine des visiteurs F60 |
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Bergheider Straße 4 | 03238 Lichterfeld | Germany |
| On dirait la tour Eiffel, mais il s’appelle F60 et il s’est couché dans le paysage de la Lusace près de Lichterfeld. Il est question du plus grand des ponts convoyeurs de stérile, et c’est au... plus >> |
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Liège | Maison de la Metallurgie et de l´Industrie de Liège - Route du Feu |
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Boulevard Raymond Poincaré 17 | 4020 Liège | Belgium |
| Le site et les bâtiments conviennent bien : un vieux quartier d’industrie, un peu à l’écart du centre de Liège, une ancienne usine de fer-blanc, érigée en 1848 par les frères Dothée – ce... plus >> |
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Longiano | Italian Museum of Cast-iron |
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47020 Longiano | Italy |
| The museum at Longiano, a town in Emilia Romagna of some 5,500 people, 90 km south-east of Bologna, displays the many practical and decorative uses to which cast-iron has been put, in Italy, and throu... plus >> |
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Lüdenscheid | Musée de forgéage Bremecker Hammer |
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Brüninghauser Straße 95 | 58513 Lüdenscheid | Germany |
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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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Massa Marittima | Mininig Museum |
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via Corridoni | Massa Marittima | Italy |
| The hills around Massa Marittima, 45 km south-west of Siena, have been extensively mined for various metallic ores and for building stone. The mining museum is located in the town’s central square b... plus >> |
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Merthyr Tydfil | Cyfarthfa Castle, Museum & Art Gallery |
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Brecon Road | CF47 8RE Merthyr Tydfil | Great Britain |
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Merzig | Musée d’industrie et d’artisanat Fellenbergmühle |
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Marienstraße 34 | 66663 Merzig | Germany |
| Coal is not the only source of power: but also water. Water power is responsible for rotating the transmission belts and driving the engines in the Fellenberg mill in the Saarland. As one of the few r... plus >> |
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Miskolc-Újmassa | Massa Museum and Blast Furnace |
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Omassai utca | 3517 Miskolc-Újmassa | Hungary |
| Miscolc, in the Bukk region of northern Hungary, is the country’s third largest city, and since the late 1940s the huge Lenin Metallurgical Plant has been located in its surburb of Diosgyor. Many ir... plus >> |
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Moira | Moira furnace |
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Furnace Lane | DE12 6AJ Moira | Great Britain |
| The blast furnace at Moira in the coalfield of north-west Leicester was built between 1804 and 1806 and worked for only two campaigns, the last of them in 1810-11. It was adapted as housing in the 19t... plus >> |
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Montbard | La Grande Forge de Buffon |
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21500 Montbard | France |
| The integrated ironworks near Montbard, established in 1768-72 by the great naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-82), incorporated the most advanced thinking of its era. It consists of a b... plus >> |
