that are fulfilled, the better it is. The ideal Anchor Point is a historically authentic site with symbolic value and (ideally national) importance for Europe´s industrial history. However, if the site is

identity. Today, people in all European countries look back on a time that has faded into the past, symbolised by thousands of industrial monuments, which are cherished and preserved as witnesses to our technical [...] there is no future. Over the past two decades, many of the same industrial monuments have become symbols of change. They are not only revitalised in a museum context, but also reused to live and work in

and locomotives flourished in particular. The Vienna International Exposition of 1873 stood as a symbol for this development – even though shortly after its opening a "Black Friday" stock market crash

which extended from the North Sea at Gothenburg across Sweden to the Baltic – it was regarded as a symbol of national efficiency. The canal was not an economic success as it was quickly made redundant by

numerous, obstructive waterways and the preference of Dutch investors to invest their capital abroad. Symbolic, but if little consequence, was King Willems I's decision to protect the coastline from encroachment

land-owners neglected their estates. The potato, which grows even in the poorest soils, became the sad symbol of Irish backwardness. But the country lacked the raw materials, capital and tradition of tradesmanship

built in the valleys of the country’s rugged, mountainous outback. The first section of the highly symbolic “Highway No. 1” between Belgrade and Zagreb was opened in 1950 – though it soon acquired an ominous

and also for railway stations - for example, London's St. Pancras terminus in 1873. The most famous symbol of the time, however, is the iron tower built by the engineer Gustave Eiffel in 1889 for the World's

synthetic inputs. By the 1920s, the herbicide auxin 2,4-D had been introduced: It can be seen as a symbol of the ambivalence of development, as auxin was a product of chemical weapons research. The same

demanded the vote for all men. After decades of struggle, the British Factory Act of 1847 became a symbol, limiting the working day to 10 hours for the first time - but initially only for women and children