Samuel Bartleet gave the museum his collection of bicycles in 1938. The first motor car was acquired in 1952, and as the industry changed in the post-war years increasing numbers of historically important [...] cycles and then, from the 1880s to motor cars. During and after the Second World War the engineering industry in Coventry also encompassed the manufacture of machine tools, tractors and aircraft. Several of [...] included many names that are now almost forgotten, making small numbers of cars almost on a cottage industry basis. The Museum of Transport opened in 1980 as a satellite building accommodating the growing

and is part of Norsk Hydro ASA. The industrial museum was opened by the company in 1986 and illustrates many aspects of life in Høyanger since the opening of the first hydro-electric power station. One unusual [...] , of which there are 1,500 in the municipality, and for its stave churches. Høyanger became an industrial town in the early twentieth century after the establishment of hydro-electric power plants in the

soldiers at Pirmasens, 20 km. west of Hauenstein. The first factory in Hauenstein was established by the brothers Seibel in 1886, and the industry subsequently prospered. There were 20 factories in the [...] town of about 4,000 people, which was one of the principal centres of the Palatinate shoemaking industry. Large-scale domestic manufacture of shoes in the region began after the Napoleonic Wars when the [...] Second World War the factories made boots for the Germany army, and employed some forced labour. The industry prospered during the German economic miracle of the 1950s when 34 factories were operating in the

Gudbrandsdalen. Industrial buildings include a corn mill, a dyehouse and fulling mill, a tannery, a brass foundry and a posting station, but Maihaugen is chiefly important to the historian of industry for what [...] example of Artur Hazelius (1833-1901) who opened the museum at Skansen in Stockholm in 1891. Sandvig first displayed his collection to the public in 1904. He conceived it as ‘a collection of homes, where one [...] cooking facilities in many farmsteads illustrate vividly how goods were manufactured before the Industrial Revolution.

Faculty of Forestry in the University of Western Hungary, where the first collection of specimens and artefacts related to forest industries was established by Henry David Wilchens (1763-1832). The museum

Dauphine in the French Alps is one of the most important sources of hydro-electric power in Europe. The first power station producing what is known in France as ‘white coal’ (houille blanche) was built at Lancey [...] steel in electric furnaces and of aluminium was pioneered in the region. The principal museum of the industry is Hydrelec at Vaujany, near the plant below the Grand Maison dam, completed in the 1980s. It displays

Welcome to the Long Shop Museum the home of the Garrett Collection and one of the first assembly line buildings in the world. The Museum, inaugurated in 1984, stands in the original 19th century works [...] landmark in the history of the company. The Long Shop was built over the winter of 1852/53 as one of the first British attempts at a flow line assembly hall, meeting the demand for portable steam engines from [...] story than you imagined. See, from the enormous range of Garrett products over 200 years, how the Industrial revolution forever changed the way people lived. Hear too, the other side of the social story and

are conserved in the historic dockyard which also contains several buildings of significance in industrial history. The dockyard visitor centre co-ordinates facilities. HMS Victory, the flagship of Admiral [...] Portsmouth until 1922 when she was placed in dry dock. She is a superb example of an 18th century first rate ship of the line, carrying 100 guns and a crew of 800 men. She was much larger than most merchant [...] She has been meticulously restored. Visitors can appreciate the working lives of sailors in the first steam propelled warships, on the gun deck, on the open decks and in the engine room. The National

employing up to 30,000 workers. Many have left few remains, having been re-developed for other industrial purposes. Thorp Arch in Yorkshire, site of No 8 Filling Factory completed in 1942 affords excellent [...] established on the former factory site in 1965. The Thorp Arch estate is divided into retail and industrial sections, the latter accommodating more than 140 businesses. Several operate large factories but [...] serving local needs. It is claimed that when the retailing section opened in 1961 it was Britain’s first out-of-town retail park. Its landscape is unique. Many of the shops are former filling factory buildings

company before the industry was re-organised by the government in 1923, with radial routes from London to Penzance and through Birmingham to Birkenhead, and to most places in between. Its first main lines were

generators and electric motors. The company has many innovations to its credit, and was once of the first to manufacture numerical relays in the 1980s. After various mergers in the late 20th century it is [...] great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976). The park is one of the most idyllic settings for industry in Europe.

Basin. The river Navigations opened up eastern England for the first time to the influence of the Industrial Revolution. For the first time, large shipments of coal and pig iron penetrated inland to Heybridge [...] This is a walk with a difference. For 14 miles you can follow this industrial age canalised river, meandering gracefully through quiet countryside. The Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation opened in 1797

modern age. It remained in use for commercial traffic for over 200 hundred years connecting the industrial town of Sudbury with the Stour estuary port of Mistley and the major ports of Ipswich, Harwich [...] in cargoes of cheap commodities including bricks, corn and mill grindstones. This lasted until the First World War when the remaining barges were deliberately sunk at Sudbury. In spite of this, the Navigation [...] Bank Holidays. From here a boat service operates to the Trust’s Visitor and Education Centre, by the first lock a mile downstream at Cornard Mill. The Trust is also planning a Heritage Centre at the Granary

that was once at the heart of Burnley´s textile industry. The name was first used in the 1970s, as interest developed in preserving Burnley´s industrial heritage, and refers to the roughly triangular shape [...] sheds and spinning mills encloses the canal, making this one of the finest surviving Victorian industrial landscapes in the country.

weapons. The industrial heritage of the region can best be appreciated in the Museum of Agriculture, Culture and Traditions in and around the house of Fabrica in Montecchio. The house was first recorded in

as the national museum of the gas industry in Denmark and opened in 2002. The first gas plant for public supply in the country opened in Odense in 1857. At the industry’s peak there were 112 works in Denmark [...] galleries illustrate the development of the industry in Denmark, from its use in lighting homes to its application to other household tasks and its role in industry. Displays illustrate such themes as the

the relationship between war and industry. Is remoteness made it an ideal location for experimental work that would have been dangerous in populated areas. The first military use came in 1915 when the

near Limoges in the department of Vienne. The first porcelain factory in the area was opened in 1771, and taken over by the Sèvres company in 1784. The industry flourished in the 19th century, the number [...] Limoges is still the principal centre of porcelain manufacture in France. The museum of the porcelain industry was founded in 1845 by the local archaeological and historical society. It was developed by Adrien

reflected in the clubhouse. The following year A V Roe made there the first powered flight by a Briton in a British aeroplane. The first public demonstration of flying in Britain took place there in 1909 [...] Brooklands epitomises some significant features of the British aircraft and motor car industries, and of motor sport. An embanked concrete racetrack for motorcars was built by the landowner Hugh Locke

aisles: doesn’t that look like a church at first sight? Not at all church-like, however, is the heavy machinery scattered all over the place, including the first steam engines of the northern Spanish province [...] a rolling mill and a smithy in the early 19th century and processed steel that came from Spain’s first coke-fired blast furnaces. Remains of the latter can still be seen in the outside area, as well as [...] Ferrería itself has turned to be a museum telling the story of the pioneers of the Spanish steel industry. Original machines and their replicas show visitors how the pig iron obtained in the blast furnaces