in Berlin, where a new manufacturing, research and administrative complex was built from 1898 on a site subsequently named Siemenstadt, between Charlottenburg and Spandau. The works museum, founded in 1922

mill, in which he had a 20% share, which attracted attention from all over Europe. The Cromford Mill site, which probably began to work in 1774, was powered by the Bonsall Brook, a tributary of the River

Germany, opened in 1865, at Hurum in Norway, established in the same year, in Scotland, for which the site at Ardeer was acquired in 1871, in the United States in 1866, at Sevran 16 km NE of Paris, in 1870 [...] his last years, are preserved at Karlskroga in Sweden, and there are commemorative plaques on the sites of most of his other works. Nobel left most of his fortune to the establishment of the Nobel prizes

brewing ceased on the historic site at Stadhouderskade, Amsterdam, in 1988. The Heineken Experience visitor centre, opened in 2001, occupies an Art Deco building of 1910 on the site. Heineken took over its principal

camouflage for the rocket research establishment at Peenemunde. He escaped during the confusion after the site was bombed and made his way across Europe, passing through Lille and Gibraltar en route to England

the Oranienburger Tor, where he served for some years as works manager. He subsequently acquired a site for a foundry on Chausseestrasse adjacent to his former employer`s works, where the first castings [...] shops and a foundry in Kirchstrase in 1850, by which time he was employing 1,800 men on the three sites. He had a reputation as a benevolent employer who provided educational facilities, dining rooms and

One of them, the ‘Catch me who can’ was demonstrated on a circular track in London, not far from the site of the present Euston station. Trevithick’s high-pressure steam engines were built at the foundry

commercial world thought him extravagant, but altho’ he was so, great things are not done by those who sit down and count the cost of every thought and act’.

electricity. He is buried in the cemetery at Cardiff and commemorated by a statue erected in 1906 on the site of his Glamorgan Colliery at Llwynpia.

given its name to collections of buildings that have been scientifically removed from their original sites in many European countries. Hazelius was the son of a military officer, was educated at the University

his family gave the park to the people of Barcelona, and it is now part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes Gaudi’s principal buildings in the Barcelona region.

preserving artefacts and buildings relating to the social and industrial history of the region. A site became available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson was appointed to direct the museum

Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879-1953), who gave her a home in Mayfair and, in 1927, a site on the Riviera where she built her villa La Pausa . In the late 1930s she went to Hollywood to do

the twentieth century, was one of Europe’s principal motor car manufacturing centres, and on a 19 ha site at Jarvel, on the River Seine in the 15 th arrondissement, André Citroën built what was to prove the [...] company is commemorated by the Parc André Citroën, opened in 1992, alongside the River Seine on the site of the company’s first large works.

line railway to pass through a region of high mountains, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998. He was born in Venice, then part of the Habsburg Empire, the son of Anton Ghega, an Albania [...] 1848 and 1854 and is notable for the elegance of its 16 major viaducts. The UNESCO World Heritage Site covers a 41km section from Gloggnitz, 436m above sea level, to the summit at 895m and on to Mürzzuschlag

and for its publication from 1964 of its stylish calendar. The Pirelli skyscraper now occupies the site of Giovanni Pirelli’s first factory alongside the River Sevesette in Milan.

few years previously. Darby and his partners also developed a water-powered works at Tern (on the site of the present Attingham Park), where they intended to refine pig iron into wrought iron and to roll

she wrote guides to the ironworks at Engelsberg, which subsequently became a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and to the industrial buildings of Norrköping. She was closely involved with the excavations at the

Nights’. From the mid-1850s he developed an interest in geology, and visited railway construction sites in Leicestershire and iron ore quarries in Northamptonshire to collect fossils revealed by excavations

Sandfields Pumping Station, Lichfield, which includes an 1872 locally built steam engine, was the earliest site of the SSWC. He sat on many Royal Commissions including projects for the River Thames sewage system