Fröndenberg (D) Hansa Coking Plant. Dortmund (D) Historic Silver Mine World Heritage Site. Tarnowskie Góry (PL) Ignacy Historic Mine. Rybnik (PL) Knappenrode Energy Factory. Hoyerswerda (D) Krenzer Hammer [...] of the shared dance event "WORK it OUT“ ... following the movies of all participating sites: Blegny Mine Word Heritage Site. Blegny (B) Coal Mining Museum. Zabrze (PL) Fagus Factory World Heritage Site. [...] Labour | Cedegolo Power Station. Brescia (I) Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. Oslo (N) Old Mine Science and Art Centre. Wałbrzych (PL) Pfau Brothers Textile Factory. Crimmitschau (D) Pilsner Urquell
literary figure. The Rossel Forge, which opened in the 1840s and closed in 1876 when the Andorran iron mines ceased production , is today a museum. The Areny family has also been active in the iron business
Steam power began its triumphal march in the booming textile industry, before moving over to coal mines and steelworks. The next fundamental improvement took place around a hundred years later, once more
proto-industrial level long before the Common Era. And in the late Middle Ages, tens of thousands of miners were extracting silver and copper ore. On the other hand, the mountainous terrain impeded trade and
founding of the tractor works in Minsk, whose Belarus brand tractor remains the country’s most prominent export item. This was followed in 1947 by the automotive manufacturer MAZ, which specialised in
machines was installed: From 1720 onwards, Thomas Newcomen's steam engine pumped mine water to the surface in a coal mine near Liège. Shortly afterwards, one colliery after another in the area around Mons [...] town of Kelmis, where the "Société Vielle Montagne" had begun producing zinc in 1837. In the coal mines, which were largely in the hands of French bankers, production rose steadily, but at the same time [...] WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Belgium World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Belgium? Grand Hornu. Mine and Workers Settlement
Austrian entrepreneurs invested mainly in heavy industry and mining. They modernised the iron ore mine in Prijedor, today operated by steel conglomerate Arcelor-Mittal, and opened the Zenica steel works
beer production to expand. The mid-19th century saw the golden age of brewing. At that time, many prominent breweries were established that remain in operation to this day. Large brewing operations took over
in Pernik, where coal had been mined since the 19th century, as well as chemical plants and coal mines in the vicinity of the new model socialist city Dimitrovgrad. Most prestigious by far was the gigantic
chemicals to clean and bleach the vast quantities of linen and cotton fabrics. Three substances rose to prominence: sulphuric acid, soda and chlorine. However, their closely related production processes caused
exploited the seemingly inexhaustible deposits in the Troodos mountains in underground and open-cast mines and shipped the ore to all the important peoples of the Mediterranean. This trade was so profitable [...] the forests of Cyprus were chopped down to smelt copper, and mounds of slag piled up around the mines at Tamassos, Soli and Skouriotissa that can still be seen today in the Troodos Geological Park. Demand [...] content, and shortly before World War I the American Cyprus Mining Company reopened the ancient copper mine at Skouriotissa. The Hellenic Mining Company mined gold and silver ore for ten years near Mitseros
established there, the city developed into one of the empire’s most important industrial centres. Mines and iron works were also established early on to exploit the rich deposits of coal and iron ore: centred
countries, such as Hungary, Spain and Greece, which continued to depend on agriculture while coal mines, iron works and textile factories were becoming established, slipped into poverty. By contrast, Denmark
pollution - hence the combination of the words 'smoke' and 'fog' to form 'smog'. As the number of coal mines and smelting works increased, black smoke became a widespread phenomenon in the British Isles, eventually
the living and working conditions of the industrial age were more or less the same, assuming that a miner in the Ruhr or the valleys of Wales dug for the same coal in a very similar way. They even migrated [...] information on ERIH membership. 19 February 2008: Founding meeting of the ERIH association Zollverein Mine WHS Essen. Germany ['ERIH' - 'European Route of Industrial Heritage'® is registered as European Union
starting in 1948. The Soviet government erected a uranium enrichment facility near the oil shale mines in Sillamäe on the northeast border, transforming the one-time seaside resort into a locked-down centre
