demonstrations by traditional hand-craftsmen revealing the skills and artistry of generations of quarry workers. Much of the site still looks like it did in the 19th century. The gigantic waterwheel that once [...] forges and an iron and brass foundry. Even the narrow gauge railway that linked the quarry with the works is still running. Quarryman's houses have been rebuilt on site and refurnished to show the cramped
engine built in England in 1874. Close to it a railcar containing an ambulance honors the life and work of the Portuguese neurologist and politician António Egas Moniz (1874-1955), winner of the Nobel Prize
including a replica of the Bayard, made in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the first steam locomotive to work in Italy, and an early electric locomotive built in Budapest in 1900, as well as important collections
include passenger cars in which lumberjacks went to work in the mountains, freight cars for livestock and timber, equipment used by railway workers such as helmets and signal lamps and unusual survivals
Civil War in 1949 but in 1960 the company VETLANS redeveloped it to make blankets and employed 800 workers. This closed in 1990 and the site was given to the city in 2000. From the original factory the stone
owned by the navy itself. The site was expanded to make large chains and in 1875 it employed 500 workers. It closed in the 1920s. The impressive industrial buildings have a water-power canal between them [...] steam hammer, turbines and a steam engine. Nearby are a sawmill, offices, Chaussade’s mansion and workers’ houses.
the colliery), go inside the colliery workshops and watch the craftsmen at work, before taking a look inside a typical worker’s house from the start of the 20th century.
2,500 square metres. Mementos and recorded memories of the former metalworkers tell of their hard work and how they relaxed from it. An 8-minute film presents the history and the role of iron and steel
Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP). The permanent exhibition comprises a variety of original works in marble: mundane, ecclesiastical, funerary and everyday objects, clay models and plaster-of-Paris [...] hewing and transportation of marble, as well as those concerning the shaping and positioning of a work in marble, thus following the entire trajectory from the raw material to the finished article. At [...] corner and rails from the quarry of Patela are exhibited, together with finished and in-process marble works. The historical mechanical equipment presented in the outdoor exhibition was salvaged, repaired and
of industrialisation on social relationships, an inventory of historic businesses like a printing works, and hundreds of different types of machines all of which are still in working order. All in all visitors
right-hand side is devoted to various areas of private and social life: from the workers' flat to the talking kitchen, from the workers' club pub to the colonial goods shop and the museum cinema, everyday life [...] historically recreated living and working environments. On the left-hand side, the changing world of work is depicted in a gypsum factory, a steam engine hall with a 1300-horsepower MAN tandem steam engine
Once again based on videos and projections, this section tells the story of large civil engineering works like reservoirs, canals, and hydroelectric plants. While crossing a passable penstock the visitor
April to October. The focus of the displays is the development of machines that took over from manual work, especially during the twentieth century. Among the oldest items are a pair of steam traction engines
1840s with a small blast furnace. In 1856, Gustaf August Wasastjerna, the owner of the Seinäjoki iron works, founded a machine shop by the rapids, while Adolf Törngren, Master of Laws, founded a linen mill
machine and the turbine and electrical equipment. Recycling continues in the region and the museum works with local companies and the Textile Museum of Prato.
travelling the world's oceans. And because the Cosulich company considers the well-being of the workers and their families to be part of its commercial success, it erects a residential estate that is still [...] and initially even a theatre. The complex also includes a vast, elaborate residence for unmarried workers. Part of it now houses the "MuCa - Museo della Cantieristica". With its sophisticated use of multimedia
convinced the city fathers of Wuppertal that they elected to copy it for their own ends. Construction work on the 13.3 kilometre long steel framework began in 1898. Three years later on 1st March 1901 the
of Mirandaola the blacksmiths, who wear special clothes from the 16th century, make the machinery work, and the water makes the enormous bellows move together with the giant hammer which strikes a piece
The mineralagical museum established by the Lavrion Studies Society (EMEL) in 1986 commemorates the work of the geologist and mining engineer A. Kordellas (1863-1909). The museum, in a building of 1873 built
