"LINKING EUROPE" VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Objects, personalities, stories and traces making contexts of Europe's industrial history visible

Europe's industrial development has always been characterised by cross-border trade in raw materials and commodities, the transfer of knowledge and technology, and large-scale population movements as a result of labour migration.

Our ever-expanding 'Linking Europe' virtual exhibition focuses on these international connections, showing how local stories relate to the wider picture of European industrial development.

Article on early technology transfer

The engine of industrialisation

Ratingen (D). Cromford Textile Mill (ERIH; R. Klenner)

Cromford - an early case of industrial espionage

Pushing tons of cargo

The backbone of modern age

Cornish engine houses conquer the world

Cornish steam engines drain mines and more

(Photo: Head of Steam Darlington Railway Museum)

George Stephenson gets Belgium's railways rolling

(Photo: Municipal Information and Tourist Centre Zlin)

Export success: The Bata shoe factory as pattern for urban planning

World's best lace thanks to Nottingham contraband

'Spinning Mule' or the invention of the textile industry

William Lindley: Modern water management for continental Europe

Personalities (presented in our biography section) who transferred technologies to other countries

Articles on knowledge and technology transfer between European countries and regions

Alles nur geklaut? Innovationsfähigkeit im Kontext von Technologietransfer und Industriespionage
Belgians at the cradle of the iron and steel industry in Sweden
British Workers in the Russian Textie Industry before 1917
Examples of industrial and military technology transfer between France and Great Britain in the eighteenth century
France and the Economic Development in Europe, 1800-1914
How a little bit of industrial espionage started the Industrial Revolution
Les Anglais-en France, et plus particulièrement en Normandie, dans la «révolution industrielle» (1715-1880)
Mönchengladbach's Textile History
Quelques remarques sur le rôle des Anglais dans la Révolution industrielle en France, particulièrement en Normandie, de 1750 à 1850
The Contribution of British Entrepreneurs to the Spread of the Industrial Revolution to the European Continent
The emigration of British lacemakers to continental Europe (1816-1860s)
The myth of an invention: the early developments of dust-pressed tile manufacturing on the European continent
Work Spaces: From the Early-Modern Workshop to the Modern Factory
3 foreign businessmen who struck it rich in Imperial Russia

Sites of technology transfer from Europe to other continents on UNESCO's World Heritage List

India: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)
Indonesia: Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto
Japan: Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution
Japan: Tamioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
Uruguay: Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape

Sites on states parties' tentative lists

Bahamas: Historic Lighthouses of the Bahamas
Chile: Malleco Viaduct
Paraguay: Railway Complex and English Village of Sapucai
Uruguay: Quartier de Penarol: la Vieille Ville historique et le paysage industriel ferroviaire

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