inscribed ‘Wilkinson’ were depicted in a contemporary engraving, and one such cylinder remains in the museum at the latter. William Wilkinson met his brother at Namur in 1782. John Wilkinson had many links
ultramarine led to bankruptcy in 1849. (The cobalt works and mines operated until 1893 and became a museum in 1971.) In 1835 Benecke and Wegner had purchased the Hassel iron ore mine and blast furnace in
built at the foundry of John Hazledine at Bridgnorth, and one of them is displayed in the Science Museum, London. Trevithick’s most enduring invention was the Cornish engine, the final development of the
hotels he was effectively bankrupt. Westinghouse helped to support him for the rest of his life. Museums in Serbia and Croatia celebrate Tesla’s legacy and there are monuments to him in many countries.
significant role in the development of electric traction, building a locomotive, now in the Duetsches Museum, Munich, that pulled passengers along a 277 m long track at the Berlin exhibition of 1877, and building [...] from 1898 on a site subsequently named Siemenstadt, between Charlottenburg and Spandau. The works museum, founded in 1922, moved with the company after the Second World War to Munich, where company archives
his collection to the Ateneum museum in Helsinki. The development of the Gosta Serlachius Museum of Fine Arts was encouraged by his son R Erik Serlachius (1901-80). The museum was opened in 1945 at the family [...] Gosta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation in 1972. A full-time curator was appointed in 1973, and the museum now attracts up to 30,000 visitors a year. The company passed through a succession of mergers in [...] group. The White House in Mantta, its headquarters building of 1934, now houses the G A Serlachius Museum that interprets the process of industrialisation in Finland from the 1850s until the present.
station and workers’ settlement at Księży Młyn are preserved. Schiebler’s mansion there is now the museum of cinematography. His wife built a massive gothic mausoleum for him at Łodz.
exhibitions in galleries in many countries. The contents of his workshop and its archives are held by the Museum of Industry and Labour at Sesto San Giovanni.
work for the Society, the block of apartments completed in 1850 in Streatham Street near the British Museum, still stands. He built several other multi-storey blocks of apartments in central London, amongst
pumping engine of 1813 for the mine at Eisleben operated until 1885 and is preserved in the Deutsches Museum at Munich – it is the oldest surviving steam engine in Germany.
Gare de l'Hôpital and the Arsenal. An original model of the double-acting engine of 1785 is in the Museum of Arts and Trades in Paris. By 1786, the company supplied 20,000 private houses as well as numerous [...] exceedingly well’. The works continued to make engines after the dispute was settled. The Littry mining museum in Normandy displays a winding engine made by them in 1800.
