in his name. Until his property was confiscated by the Nazis he was the major influence on the industrial development of the town of Dessau and the Free State of Anhalt. In 1922 technology enthusiasts

ly unprofitable, and by 1957 all activities had ceased. In 1985 people began to reconsider the industrial history and traditions of the people of Mechernich. Over the following years a new museum with

from 1578-1864 and made an important contribution to the energy supply in the transition to the industrial age. The Elsterfloßgraben as a technical monument stretches across three federal countries, starting

Arsenale, which amounts to six per cent of the total area of the city. The Thetis consortium of industrial companies and research institutes won European Union support for the adaptation in 1996-97 of four

military vehicles. The museum holds documentary records of Sauber vehicles and has links with other industrial and transport museums around the shores of the Bodensee.

district of the city was built for employees of the ironworks, and often also by owners of this industrial plant. The plant was the leading facility of this type in the country, applying the latest tec

while guest workers arrived in the 1970s to take jobs in construction, forestry and the tourism industry.

widely acknowledged, with many overseas visitors coming to experience this world class landmark in industrial housing provision. Take a trip to the Back-to-Backs, then stroll round the beautiful Bournville

Herefordshire Council) in 1973, and much of it on either side of the B4399 road is now the Rotherwas Industrial Estate, providing premises for more than 200 companies. It provides archaeological evidence of

which used the Coats brand names. Thread manufacturing declined after the Second World War and the industry gradually contracted. Anchor Mills became a business centre from the 1980s, and production of thread

purpose had been to display Swedish culture in the era before industrialisation, but there are many industrial buildings in the collection, and it has been the policy of directors in recent times to display

closely associated with L T C Rolt (1910-74), biographer of several of the leading engineers of the Industrial Revolution period, whose voyage of 1939 described in the book Narrow Boat began at Banbury, and

mining landscape, with the objective of building upon the past, and using the monuments of past industry as opportunities for future development not as problems to be obliterated. It is based in the buildings

conditions, life between colliery and carrier pigeons, strikes and settlements, the decline of the coal industry and structural transformation. All these themes are reflected in a huge number of everyday objects

in the extreme south of the Netherlands had been gradually closed down because the region´s key industry, mining, had slowly become less and less important. The ZLMS took the initiative to reactivate some

Whether the residents will be successful in preserving the historic ship lift as a fully working industrial monument remains to be seen.

firms experienced in expanding their businesses in the narrow Rur valley resulted in the cloth industry gradually moving away from the area. Now the Red House, more than anything else, stands as a reminded

been made possible by the commitment of railway enthusiasts who even today continue to run the industrial monument, restore and maintain buildings and equipment on an honorary basis. The museum train sets

ancourt, about 3 km downstream from the Eiffel Tower, was an icon of 20th century manufacturing industry in Europe. Louis Renault (1877-1944) began to build motor cars in a small workshop on the bank of

when the Smithy or the huge engines are at work and you can be transported back to East Anglia´s industrial past. East Anglian firms such as Garrett´s, Burrell´s, Paxman´s, Boby, Smyth and Fison are represented