IBM Blue Gene. The Swiss computer industry is well represented, for example by the Lilith workstation created at the Zurich Polytechnic School, for which one of the first mice was developed at the Lausanne
paper industry. In 1689, Creutz was granted the privilege of building an ironworks by a mining college. At the turn of the 20th century, wood processing developed alongside iron production, first in the
of Naoussa was called the Manchester of the Balkans in the second half of the 19th century as the first city of northern Greece to industrialise. Its cotton spinning and weaving mills sold products across [...] 36-m chimney survive. The exhibition History Threads presents the history of the city's textile industry. Spinning and weaving machines are displayed alongside social material that ensures a focus on people
the plastics industry. Local farming families traditionally made hair-combs from wood or bone as a winter occupation. This craft grew into an export industry in the 19th century and the first steam-powered [...] currently based in the Aragon Cultural Centre, preserves 16,000 objects and tells the story of local industry, the manufacture of combs and the technology of plastics. In Rue René Nicod, 1km away, is a model
frames and the history of the workers in this labour-intensive industry. The important topic of vocational training is also explored, from the first industrial college in the 19th century to the National Optical [...] clock parts using water-powered hammers on the River Bienne meant it was well prepared for the new industry. Since the late 19th century the area has produced glasses on a large scale. In a beautiful new
Jean Loiseau founded the first earthenware factory here. He used local clay and firewood and traded from the port of the River Sarthe. Others followed him into the ceramics industry. They focused on earthenware
regions in the world. Oil, and later gas, was first extracted here in the 19th century. However, it was not until after the Second World War that the oil industry really took off, including in the town of [...] of Ivanić-Grad in western Moslavina. In 1949, the first of seven oil fields was discovered here, and the town and its surrounding area became known as "Little Kuwait" due to the number of pumps used. In
displays cover local industry, domestic work, agriculture, commerce and especially fish canning and lithographic printing of packaging.There are three main exhibitions. The first looks at agricultural [...] The second exhibition traces the canning production process and displays artifacts relating to the industry, including a large and colourful collection of printed packaging. Testimonies can be read from workers
vicinity of the railroad network. Many processes and procedures used in the production of peat were first tested here. This also includes some not so successful methods, including the use of heavy Russian [...] of exhibits on the production and use of peat, as well as the history and development of the peat industry. The environmental management of peatlands is also addressed. Outside the museum, around sixty machines
The town of Forssa was born from textile industry. The Swedish Axel Wahren (1814-1885) founded the Forssa cotton spinning mill on the edge of the Kuhala rapids in 1847. It was soon followed by a weaving [...] weaving mill, a yarn dyeing plant, and in 1861 Finland's first and for 60 years the only fabric printing plant. Initially, pattern designs and printing rolls were imported from other parts of Europe. The own [...] Forssa. During the 1950s and 1990s, hundreds of thousands of different patterns were produced. As the industry gradually waned, the factory properties were converted to other uses and the extensive archives
1,500 m and the oil was pumped out. The city experienced a rapid boom, which continued until the First World War, when the production facilities were severely damaged. Oil is still being produced in the [...] beginning of the 20th century are nowhere near as high as they were at that time. The Oil and Gas Industry Museum keeps alive the memory of the heyday of oil production. Various models are used to illustrate [...] and collections of paraffin and oil lamps and medals and emblems associated with the gas and oil industry.
houses – that's Zeeland at first glance. A visit to the Zeeland Industrial Museum reveals that the sunniest region of the Netherlands also has a lot to offer in terms of industry. Who would have thought,
1908, when the first ship was launched here - a place near Trieste that belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918 - Monfalcone has been renowned as a centre of the shipyard industry. This is due [...] due to the Cosulich family, well-established in the regional shipping industry. Their foundation of a shipyard in today's Panzano district rapidly turns the coastal town into a birthplace of elegant luxury
cotton textiles, communications, the local leather industry and the craft of processing fish skins to make fine-quality book covers and handbags. On the first floor are displays of shipbuilding, flour milling [...] The museum presents the history of industry, technology and everyday life in Schleswig-Holstein. Elmshorn became an important industrial centre in the nineteenth century, especially for the food industries
Industrial Revolution. Königshütte/Kościuszko ironworks was put into operation in 1802. It was one of the first steam-powered steelworks on the European continent. Its blast furnace was the largest in Europe at [...] power plant building of the iron and steelworks. It tells the story of the Silesian iron and steel industry. The focus of the exhibition entitled "The Iron Kingdom" is dedicated to the Royal Ironworks (Huta
workings. After 1945 flower growing expanded with the construction of more glasshouses, and in 1952 the first Blütenfest (flower festival) was organised in Wiesmoor. It was one of the factors, with the building [...] the mid-18th century to the early 20th century. It also shows the history of the peat extraction industry in the region. Some buildings are original, some relocated here and some reconstructed based on [...] typical colonist’s house, a smithy, a sawmill, a school and a well. The equipment from the peat industry includes large machinery – diesel-powered turf cutters, excavators and conveyors. A narrow-gauge
the sugar content until the industrial production of sugar from beet was developed around 1800. The first beet sugar factory was built in 1802 in Cunern (Konary, Poland). From 1835, the German Customs Union [...] Union created favourable economic conditions for the cultivation of sugar beet and the beet sugar industry. By 1900, more than 600 beet sugar factories had been established in Germany, including the Oldisleben [...] operation, driving pumps, compressors, the generator and transmission shafts. The reality of GDR industry is documented in the canteen and infirmary. The Oldisleben Sugar Factory Cultural Heritage Foundation
the city’s printing industry is the board game Monopoly developed by John Waddington from 1922. The museum also displays examples of the products of the city’s extensive leather industry, and a small cinema [...] Leeds is well-known as the commercial centre of the Yorkshire woollen industry, and as the location of many woollen mills. It was also the principal flax-spinning town in England, and its mechanical e [...] Manufacturing of woollen cloth at Armley Mills depended entirely on water power until 1850 when the first steam engine was installed. The water wheels passed out of use in the 1860s. The mill passed through
in Altena in 1903. He first put forward his vision of youth hostels in 1907, and opened the first of them in Burg Altena in 1912. After serving in the German army during the First World War he founded the [...] (or tourist) industry, hotels, wayside inns, motorway service stations, are readily recognised as part of the industrial heritage. One of the most significant innovations in the industry in the twentieth [...] proliferation of youth hostels providing inexpensive accommodation for young people on their travels. The first such hostel was established in the twelfth century Burg Altena (Altena Castle) which towers above
Ivrea is a town 56 km north of Turin, whose main industry for much of the twentieth century was the manufacture of office equipment by Olivetti, founded in 1908 by the electrical engineer Camillo Olivetti [...] Olivetti (1928-85). The company was always noted for the attention paid to high quality design. It first became famous for its typewriters, then for mechanical calculators, and subsequently for electric [...] manufactured computers, initially with great success. The Programma 101, produced from 1965, was the first commercial programmable desktop computer. Subsequently while discarding traditional products, such
