B.Crompton and the Hoffmann Manufacturing Company who created global industries in the town. New hands-on exhibits vividly demonstrate the scientific principles involved. These inventors and technology

feature of the museum is that it preserves the centuries-old traditional craft of making paper by hand.

of the mill, of the locality and of the Rikbank’s notes. There are demonstrations of papermaking by hand. The Royal Coin Cabinet, with examples of Swedish coins over many centuries, is also located at Tumba

century. It was opened in 1996 and its collection now totals more than 10,000 objects. It includes a hand-operated press by Hopkinson & Cope of London, Linotype machines, Monotype casters and Heidelberg printing

addition to the working machinery, displays in the mill include artefacts relating to milling, such as hand-powered grindstones (quern stones). Typically, mills like New Abbey ground oats, barley, wheat and

why not take a trip to the ropery. It is not only long but still in operation. You can even try your hand at making rope yourself on the machines which are up to 200 years old!

narrow boat cabins to experience how families lived and worked on the inland waterways, or try your hand at operating the interactive steam-powered crane. Then step back in time to visit the Victorian h

the beam engine Princess at the other. Princess was installed during the 1860s, but was then second hand, and was probably built by Bateman & Sherratt of Manchester in the 1820s. The mill was scheduled as

rained? What is a green brick? And why was it crucial to handle wet bricks with the flat of one's hand only? Find the answers to these questions at Bursledon Brickworks in Southampton. The site which is

the region and shows the history of technical improvements in the craft of forging from traditional hand forging via the tilt or stretch hammer to the mighty strap-lift drop hammer. On demonstration days

At that time there were about 30 quarries in the northern part of Gotland, all worked entirely with hand tools. During the twentieth century mechanisation increased, and a substantial proportion of the limestone

Pfau Brothers (Gebruder Pfau). The company originated in 1859 when Friedrich and Antoni Pfau set up a hand-weaving business in Leipziger Strasse, where in 1885 they built a four-storey factory for the manufacture

geological conditions. Between April and October, visitors aware of their health can bathe their hands and feet in the brine in an outdoor spa, and of course there is also a chance to taste the "white

on Pelion, built between 1892 and 1903. Hellenic State Railways operated the line from 1955, then handed it over to the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) which subsequently closed it. The section from

centre of linen manufactures. William Coulson (1739-1801) established a damask weaving factory, using hand looms, in Lisburn in 1764; his company split in two in 1830s under his sons. Both branches continued

museum. Here visitors can find out more about the past history of the local textile industry at first hand. In the offices they can eavesdrop on the clerks. Later they can travel alongside the bales of jute

The present mill building was erected by John Caudwell in 1874 and the business remained in the hands of his family until 1978, after which ownership passed to a charitable trust which has developed the

whose most celebrated member was Sir Francis Chichester (1901-72), the first person to sail single-handed round the world by the clipper route. The unique feature of Arlington Court is the presence of the

direct impression of the advantages of building the underground galleries. But there´s no rest for hands and feet in the Rischbachstollen visitor mine. Here you can don colliers’ clothing, hammer away at

escavated fragments and a mock-up of a traditional kiln. Ethel Kelly also makes Ogham Wishes, pieces of hand-made pottery inscribed in traditional Irish script.