areas had taught people the vital importance of water supplies for fire-fighting. Sites of the Theme Route [...] ON THE HISTORY OF WATER MANAGEMENT Listen No European country has as close a relationship to water than the Netherlands. For this reason water construction technology developed here first. At the start

1914 the complete Ford factory in Detroit was operating on the assembly line system. Sites of the Theme Route [...] of the birthplaces of the industrial age, the British textile area Lancashire; from then on, the route supplied the booming city of Manchester with coal. Other canals followed quickly, enabling coal to

transport routes. Since heavy industry boomed in the Ruhr area, transit trade across the Rhine had increased massively. To enable new, ever larger steamships serving the lucrative transatlantic route to use [...] plantations also boomed on the islands. Java and Sumatra were among the most profitable colonies under European rule until the 20th century. What role these revenues played as the technologies of the industrial

Invention of Textile The Heritage of the Textile Industry. Thematic Study for TICCIH Sites of the Theme Route [...] plantations in the south of the USA, picked by enslaved people forcibly transported from Africa by European traders. The first textile mill, however, was a silk twisting mill. The five-storey building in

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ice-skating and penny-slot machines; all of them just a few metres above the waves. Sites of the Theme Route [...] and the "Universum" in Berlin, built by the famous architect, Erich Mendelsohn. Pleasure parks in European capitals have an even longer tradition. They flourished in the 19th century. In London, "Vauxhall

traditionally was, only now in a more energy efficient, highly automated process. Sites of the Theme Route

the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) is doing. Come with us on an exciting journey of discovery along the milestones of European industrial history. What is ERIH ? ERIH is the European Route [...] simultaneously starting points for a variety of regional routes. Regionale Routes Each region has its own speciality. In this respect European industrial heritage is just like food. Its strength lies in [...] a number of less significant industrial monuments - the small cogs in the large machine. European Theme Routes Such as "The treasures of the Earth": what, where, when and how were they extracted from the

ERIH and it's (virtual) route system of Anchor Points, Regional Routes and European Theme Routes: Anchor Points: Selection Criteria and Procedure Regional Routes European Theme Routes [...] of sites spread across Europe. It just needs to be brought back to life - and that is what the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) is doing. Join us on an exciting journey of discovery through the [...] ERIH'S ROUTE SYSTEM: YOUR GUIDE TO EUROPE'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE Listen Where was the first factory in the world? Where was the biggest steam engine built? And where was the most modern colliery of its

Criteria and Procedure Regional Routes European Theme Routes Regional Routes in Austria Moravian-Silesian Technical Trail The Moravian-Silesian region was industrialised already during the times of Austria-Hungary [...] REGIONAL ROUTES OPEN UP THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF A REGION Listen In many European regions there are few industrial heritage sites with touristic potential. Each of this regions has its own specialisms [...] s. In this respect European industrial heritage is just like food. Its strength lies in the fact that it unites many different traditions within a single idea. The Regional Routes link landscapes and sites

e and the region where it was made, has continued right down to the present day. Sites of the Theme Route [...] American Civil War in the 1860s Gail Borden developed condensed milk. A Swiss firm launched it onto the European market and soon after it merged with another firm owned by Henri Nestlé, the inventor of baby food

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muslim world. Since the Arabs manufactured paper in their european possessions, too, Europe learnt papermaking through them. It seems that european paper production started in Palermo and Valencia in the [...] de-acidification and restoration if they are to be preserved for future generations. Sites of the Theme Route [...] century. After the muslim emirates north of the Mediterranean Sea fell into christian hands again, european scholars, magistrates and merchants quickly discovered the advantages of the new writing material

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transit routes passes right through the middle of the country: the Vardar River valley continues northward into the Ibar valley in Kosovo and the Morava valley in Serbia. To the south, this route leads to [...] armies and travellers traversed the craggy mountains of the Balkans along this route. The Via Egnatia, the great east-west route of antiquity, intersects the country’s southern edge at the town of Bitola [...] HISTORY OF NORTH MACEDONIA Listen North Macedonia attained independence very late compared to other European nations – and thus industrialisation was late and slow in coming as well. The natural prerequisites

fell on to a moving belt. Finally, fully mechanised coal mining began in the 1940s. Sites of the Theme Route [...] ON THE HISTORY OF MINING Listen Coal from European and American collieries was the universal fuel during the Industrial Revolution. Nonetheless technical inventions in mining played a relatively insignificant

Britain, the cradle of industrialisation, had been overtaken by the USA and Germany. Sites of the Theme Route [...] symmetrically designed plant reflected the centralised industrial policies of the French state. Other European regions only reached the level of British industry in the 19th century. The Belgian iron region

like Vickers and Krupp, influential as they once were, have all but disappeared. Sites of the Theme Route

and behind the new woods full of beech trees, the land continues to be exploited. Sites of the Theme Route [...] people lived along the River Ruhr in the fertile zone along the "Hellweg", the traditional trading route between the old towns of Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund. In the second half of the 19th century the