industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South Wales, a key region in the "world's first industrial nation". Both these areas comprise a number of less significant industrial monuments - [...] most important industrial regions in Europe. more Regional Routes in Italy Minett Tour The steel industry shaped the landscape, factories and blast furnaces rose, and workers formed an unfamiliar kind of
train transported coal and passengers for the first time. The locomotive came from the workshop of George Stephenson in Newcastle, who then built the first long-distance line between Manchester and the [...] pioneers of steam-powered shipping came from the USA, but the first iron-hulled steamer was built by the Briton Aaron Manby in 1822. The first scheduled steamship connection with North America was established [...] accessible deposits of the key resources coal and iron ore lay in the soils of Great Britain. The first pioneering inventions were triggered by a shortage of wood, the main fuel for businesses and households
not until the 1950s that more Danes were employed in industry than in agriculture. Related Links ERIH Link List 1001 Stories of Denmark: Theme "Industry. From Mills to Computers" WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Denmark [...] second pillar of prosperity was international trade. In the 18th century, the neutral Danes profited first from the war between the great powers England and France and then from the American War of Independence; [...] about 1%, it gave a noticeable boost to the economy of the small country. In 1792, Denmark became the first European country to ban the trade in humans, but it continued illegally. Ultimately, Denmark’s successful
"Société Générale", the first joint-stock bank, was founded and soon afterwards the Banque de Belgique. Both provided targeted investment capital for the development of industry: Belgium was also a pioneer [...] Brussels to Mechelen - the first section of the long-distance line from Antwerp via the burgeoning industrial cities of Liège and Verviers to Cologne, which was opened in 1843 as the first international railway [...] and efficient agriculture provided the large landowners with investment capital. Belgium was the first place on the continent where one of the revolutionary British steam-powered machines was installed:
Communication Housing Industrial Architecture Industry and War Iron and Steel Landscapes Mining Paper Production and Manufacturing Salt Service and Leisure Industry Textiles Transport Water Xtra: Company Museums [...] Anchor Point of the Day Cromford Mills World Heritage Site | Cromford, United Kingdom The first modern factory in history was built in Cromford in the Derwent valley,… more ERIH PRESENTS over 2,400 sites [...] experts from around the world gathered in Kiruna for… more 07-09-2025 | Industrial Culture 1.25: First exclusive English-language edition published The German Journal Industriekultur, a long-standing partner
the key materials of the industrial era - from iron ore. First, the ore has to be smelted in the blast furnace. more Service and Leisure Industry The Industrial Revolution resulted in more and more smokestacks [...] ROUTES ILLUSTRATE THE CONNECTIONS Listen Currently ERIH presents over 2,400 sites of all branches of industry from all countries, that are partly or entirely considered part of Europe from a political, cultural [...] connections between the main themes of European industrial heritage. In addition to the selection by industry, you can also list company museums and sites that offer factory tours and industrial heritage properties
enormous quantities of construction timber and firewood, food, and iron products. From the 1820s on, the first Finnish textile factories appeared. Driven by the availability of water power and an exemption from [...] extensive watershed of Lake Saimaa with the Gulf of Finland. Starting in 1862, trains traversed the first railway line running inland from Helsinki, and the vital link to St. Petersburg was completed in 1870 [...] demanded primarily metal products, from ships and railroad cars to machine tools, the metal-working industry was compelled to modernise extensively, a process which ultimately made the nation competitive in
