important part in the mining heritage of Cornwall. It was of course slate that roofed the industrial revolution and the finely laminated, dark blue slate from Carnglaze was extensively used in South East [...] further afield. Find out about the miners’ ingenuity and skills, and how slate roofed the Industrial Revolution. You will go on a self-guided underground tour to learn how the mine was worked, ending at

how raw wool and cotton was transformed into yarn. See the Revolution gallery telling the story of Lancashire´s role in the industrial revolution. Watch the mighty waterwheel powering the stocks as they [...] they thump the wet woollen cloth. Discover famous inventors and international textile industry treasures including an Arkwright Water Frame from the 1780’s. A changing programme of exhibitions, events and

world’s first Industrial nation. And as water continued to cascade through the centuries, the industries continued to flow through time, and Aberdulais established its place as an industrial centre. Discover [...] an ice age landscape and breath-taking waterfalls, to shape the industries that changed the world….Aberdulais – An Industrial Revolution, powered by water since 1584!

son of a Wuppertal textile manufacturer, visited Manchester during the early years of the industrial revolution he was shocked by the working conditions in the factories. In 1848 he and Karl Marx published [...] published the “Communist Manifesto” and very soon they were known all over the world as the pioneers of revolution. Shortly before, in 1837, Friedrich Engels senior had opened the Ermen & Engels cotton mill in [...] grounds to accuse him of a greed for profits. Nonetheless his firm was to become the scene of a revolution. In this case: electricity. For very soon Engelskirchen and the surrounding locality was making

important industrial areas in Central Europe with its coal mining, iron and steel production and vehicle industry. ‘Moravian-Silesian Tourism' highlights the evidence of the region's rich industrial and technical [...] transport, automotive industry, but also firefighting, brewing, military and agricultural history. The route includes not only monuments from the time of the Industrial Revolution, but also artefacts that [...] that are much older or younger. It thus offers a diverse picture of the industrial heritage so typical of the region.

tell the story of mortars from antiquity to the present day, with particular emphasis on the Industrial Revolution in the Basque country and the first cement factories in the region. The development of Portland [...] explained, and visitors have access through digital technology to an array of data relating to the industry. One section details the history of the Rezola company and its workers, and another analyses the

Styal Estate with Styal Village is the most complete and least altered factory colony of the Industrial Revolution. It is of outstanding national and international importance. Founded in 1784 by a young textile [...] offers an unique opportunity to see the two major sources of power available during the Industrial Revolution, working in an original context. The most powerful working waterwheel in Britain illustrates how [...] machines working and meet skilled Millworkers with years of experience of working in the cotton industry. 4. The Great Iron Waterwheel and two Steam Engines Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate now offers

The Chiozza starch factory is a real unique first industrial revolution factory fully equipped with the original machinery. More than 30 old machines powered by a steam machine are preserved. The factory [...] bankrupt. In February 2014 a voluntary association was founded to save the factory as an important industrial heritage site, to open it to the public and to set up a small museum.

and drawings submitted by aspirant patentees. The museum’s Industrial Portfolio includes more than 20,000 drawings and paintings of industrial subjects, including notable 18th century drawings by Jacques [...] The principal museum of technology in France dates from 1794, the time of the French Revolution, when a national conservatory of arts and trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) was created [...] arts and trades of all kinds’. It opened in 1799 in the buildings of a priory dissolved during the Revolution. In the course of the 19th century it acquired collections from several leading French scientists

technology prior to the Industrial Revolution: the Bologna-type silk-throwing machines. Not a single of them has survived, but a half-size reconstruction in the Museum of Industrial Heritage keeps them i [...] well as a tortellini machine or products made by the cutting-edge packaging industry. The range of exhibits shows that industrial heritage in Bologna is well-rooted in history while still being relevant today [...] further floors, the museum captures the panorama of a city which has successfully advanced several industries, including the manufacture of clothing and machine tools. Of particular importance was the engineering

explain the leading role that Blaenavon and South Wales played in the formative years of the Industrial Revolution. The centre will be a fun and educational place to visit for families, educational groups [...] is the first dedicated World Heritage Centre in the UK and is the focal point for the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site. The Visitor Centre combines video presentations, interactive touch [...] history, as St. Peter’s school was the first purpose built school in Wales to be established by an industrial employer for the benefit of the children of the workers.

and astonishingly sharp picture of what life was once like in Wales and how the motor of industrial revolution has made Wales what it is today. [...] state-of-the-art computer technology. This is all about Wales and how to recount its unique and complex industrial history in as exciting and up-to-date manner as possible. And it works! For the main actors are [...] your life put at risk as a collier, and shortly afterwards bask in the fairy-tale wealth of an industrial tycoon. In this way you are able to endure noise and filth, experience repression and working-class

the symbol of the industrial revolution which began in the neighbouring iron works belonging to the Coalbrookdale Company. Its factory buildings set milestones along the path of industrial progress from cast [...] production to the pioneering engineering achievements in railway technology. Later other important industrial enterprises were set up in the neighbourhood. Today the old factory sites offer a fascinating tour [...] England. A trip to the Ironbridge Gorge is an exciting journey into the pioneering past of the industrial era. The monuments to this unique breakthrough have now been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage

agricultural revolution. Reminders of appalling rural poverty jostle uneasily alongside steam and diesel engines. Working class poverty was a major problem in the Norfolk of the Industrial Revolution. Protectionist [...] The vast ´House of Industry´ at Gressenhall was built in 1775 to provide a home and work to the rural poor who were otherwise unable to obtain work. In 1834, it became known as the Mitford and Launditch [...] new Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 was designed to force more people to seek work. The House of Industry was reconstructed as a Union Workhouse to ensure that conditions inside were a detriment to those

was not strictly devoted to mining and its first temporary exhibition was devoted to the Cuban revolution. In 1966 the museum moved to its current location in a building of 1920 that was the first headquarters [...] headquarters of the SAR Patrosani company, and concentrated on interpreting the coal mining industry of the Jiu valley that dates from the 1840s. There are displays of miners’ tools, machines used underground

optical industry is explored in a museum in the Kulturzentrum Rathenow (Rathenow Cultural Centre) at the town of Rathenow in north-east Germany. The pioneer of optics, who brought the future industry to Rathenow [...] publicity. There are also displays about the history of the town from the Middle Ages through the industrial revolution to the Second World War and the communist era.

new building conceived by the Danish architects 3XN. The ground-floor displays focus on the industrial revolution and the commercial impact of empire. The collections related to transport range from handcarts [...] The social history collections include many objects related to working life in the port and its industries.

concerned with the industrial history of Europe. It was founded, as the South Kensington Museum, in the year after the Great Exhibition of 1851 with a mission to improve the quality of the industrial arts – designs [...] ocean liners and cameras, and ceramics from the principal designers and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution period and after. The ceramics collection totals 75,000 artefacts. The glass collection includes [...] includes many pieces made in Venice from the fifteenth century, as well as examples from the Industrial Revolution period. The large collection of decorative iron and steel includes cast-iron firebacks of

Project is a unique new industrial exploration centre. Based at the two mills that pioneered paper’s industrial revolution, the project brings together the past of an industry that helped shape the modern [...] inherently sustainable industries – paper. The foundations of the Paper Trail Project are the two neighbouring sites of Apsley and Frogmore Mills, the birthplace of paper’s industrial revolution. Frogmore Mill

Cotonificio Cantoni is a cotton mill founded in 1847, on the verge of the Italian (late) industrial revolution, to exploit the energy of the Olona river. Since 1992 the buildings have housed the LIUC [...] University. For almost 150 years, Cantoni was a major player in the Italian textile industry. The factory underwent continuous expansion and adaptation, gradually integrating other existing buildings (both