The principal museum of the Staropolski Industrial Region, where Stanislaw Staszic(1755-1826), Director of the Division of Industry and Mining of the Congress Kingdom of Poland between 1816 and 1824, and [...] machines from other industrial sites were displayed in its buildings, including a steam pump of 1858 made by Rudolf Siebert of Friedland-in-Maehren and a lathe of the 1850s made in England by James Fox. There

and the natural and cultural heritage. Inside, we can find out about the evolution of sea trade in Bilbao and Biscay and surrounding areas and the evolution of naval industry. Outside, we can visit the old

present-day Denmark, but after gaining experience in several countries became one of Norway’s leading industrial entrepreneurs of the nineteenth century. He was involved with many aspects of manufacturing and [...] and established a brand that is still globally recognised. He worked for a time in the textile industry in Hamburg, but in 1843 moved to Bergen in Norway where he set up a company, Arne Fabrikker which [...] mechanical weaving mill on the outskirts of the city. In 1844 he left Norway to gain experience of industry across Europe, spent six months working in a cotton mill in Manchester, and did not return to Bergen

museum in the Market Square provides an introduction to the history of the town, including its industrial heritage.

and Villa Aalto. The Ironworks have been designated as a built cultural heritage site of national significance by the Finnish Heritage Agency. [...] The Kauttua Ironworks ensemble is the result of over 330 years of iron and paper industry. In 1689, Creutz was granted the privilege of building an ironworks by a mining college. At the turn of the 20th [...] village to the present day is presented in an exhibition in the visitor centre. The focus is on the industrial history, nature and community of Ruukinpuisto from 1689 to the present day. In addition to the

invention was taken up in the woollen industry and from the 1750s for weaving cotton. It was used across England by the 1790s and a century later in the vast textile industries of Japan, India and China. In 1747 [...] The brilliant inventor John Kay was one of the most significant figures of the early Industrial Revolution. His invention of the flying shuttle for weaving stimulated successive inventions in the mechanisation [...] mechanisation of textile production. Kay was born near the town of Bury in north-west England at the beginning of the eighteenth century. His family were farmers but at the age of 14 he was apprenticed to

housed on the site of a disused generating station, is an impressive presentation of the city’s industrial heritage. Here you can see one of the most powerful steam engines in the world. Alongside it stands

at Warmley, on the eastern edge of the Bristol conurbation. Parts of the works are now Kingswood Heritage Museum, including a windmill tower and a horse-operated mill. Features that survive in other uses [...] including models of a zinc foundry and workers’ housing. The museum also has displays about other industries in the area: coal mining from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, shoemaking factories (50

located in the east of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape WHS. The hill has a rich mining heritage and its ornate feature chimney, a reminder of its mining past, dominates the landscape for miles [...] around. The area is now a country park extending to 152 hectares where the combined natural and industrial landscapes can be fully appreciated. There are views from the elevated position (334 metres above

region's history contribute to activate and combine the cultural heritage with the tourism industry and convey the history of the industrial heritage develop added value based on a combination of nature and cultural [...] knowledge about the hydro power industry in the fjord district of Norway develop and strengthen the awareness of the cultural value of the sites and objects of industrial heritage as an important part of the [...] cultural heritage and how the waterfalls have been and still are the most green and sustainable power resource by turning water into electricity. The tourism potential of this cultural and industrial heritage

ditches were dug in order to generate energy using water wheels. This meant that an attractive industrial heritage landscape developed which can still be seen at many sites today. There were once 48 forges

that was inherited by Friedrich Krupp (1787-1826). In 1811, when supplies of crucible steel from England were interrupted by Napoleon`s continental system, he established a steel foundry in Essen, although [...] almost ceased by the time of his death. The development of this small concern into the largest industrial company in Europe was due largely to his son, Alfred Krupp. When the building of main line railways [...] comprised 50% of the output of his company, which, with 20,200 employees was claimed to be the largest industrial concern in the world. Krupp gained a reputation as a benign employer. The company`s workers settlements

La Fonderie is the Museum of Industry and Labour for Brussels as a leading industrial city. It is in the Molenbeek area, known as ‘the Belgian Manchester’. The museum uses the foundry buildings of the [...] technology, business, working conditions and trade. The museum provides guided tours of the industrial heritage of Brussels on foot and by boat on the Willebroek canal. There are temporary exhibitions and [...] hall, a smelting hall, a sculpture workshop and a manager’s house. The displays present the main industrial sectors of Brussels: metal, wood, textiles, food, car manufacturing and hat making. They look at

was recognised as a heritage site, now occupies two storeys of a former warehouse. It includes some nineteenth-century machines and has nine principal themes, including the industrial context in Normandy [...] safety pins and pins with coloured glass heads. It played a significant role in the lace-making industry in the region. From 1860 manufacturing was concentrated in a 24-bay, three-storey main building

Rajoleta” is a cultural heritage project to reconvert the existing structures on the old factory into a live museum, thus enabling the city of Esplugues to recover its industrial heritage and create a space [...] as “La Rajoleta” (The Little Tile), is an ever present point of reference in the area of Catalan industrial ceramics production. And this is particularly so with regard to the times of splendor of Modernism [...] space particularly oriented to industrial ceramics at the time of Modernism.

department of Haute-Saône, is the most northerly community in France-Comté, and has a long history of industrial activity. Its population, now less than 700, has declined from a peak of 1,805 in 1851. The glass [...] works was given the distinction of an ‘enterprise du Patrimoine vivant’ (an enterprise of living heritage) in 2009.

The saltworks at Arc-et-Senans is one of the most spectacular industrial monuments in Europe. It was built between 1775 and 1779 on the fringe of the forest of Chaux, since supplies of wood for fuel were

writing, calculating and digital imaging. In 2018 Ivrea was inscribed in the Unesco World Heritage list as an "industrial city of the 20th century, developed as the testing ground for Olivetti. It comprises [...] 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 [...] Comunità). A model social project, Ivrea expresses a modern vision of the relationship between industrial production and architecture."

great heritage value of the facilities combines with the environment, resulting in an area marked by intense iron ore mining activities that, since 1865, contributed to the subsequent industrial development [...] passengers can see railway-related earthworks, platforms, quarries or dumps that make up an exceptional industrial landscape.

Laval was a Swedish engineer whose innovations profoundly influenced the growth of the dairy industry and the development of steam power. His name was of French origin, his family having settled in Sweden [...] Germany and Ireland. It was demonstrated at the 1879 meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, which conferred on Laval its silver medal. Several companies, including Bergdorfer Eisenwerk of [...] 1894, and completing a vacuum milking machine in 1913. The separator was used for various other industrial purposes beginning in 1882 with its application for processing fish oil in Norway in 1882. In 1882