on the River Ruhr was for long one of the chief leather working towns in Germany, and its industrial heritage is commemorated in a museum opened in 2003 in the former factory of the Abel company. Ultra-modern [...] displays feature tools used in tanning and leather-working, together with the varied products of the industry. Manufacturing methods are illustrated by documentary films.

Nicolas Leblanc had a formative influence on the early chemical industry. In 1787 he devised the process for making alkali that dominated production in the nineteenth century. Alkali was used in manufacturing [...] failed. Aged 63, he shot himself. From 1807, the process was copied by industrialists in the north of England, first near Newcastle and later near Liverpool: regions where sea salt and coal were readily available [...] it. Initially, the biproducts were discarded but other uses were found for them as the chemical industries developed. However, the Leblanc process was a cause of severe atmospheric pollution. In the late

woollen industry, and as the location of many woollen mills. It was also the principal flax-spinning town in England, and its mechanical engineering, tailoring, printing and leather industries were also [...] 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 [...] also of major importance. The city’s industrial museum is at Armley Mills, located between the River Aire and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. There have been mills on the site since the middle ages, and in

which continues to safeguard the unique qualities and architecture of the town. The important industrial architecture of Letchworth includes the spectacular Spirella building.Combining Arts and Crafts [...] world´s first road Roundabout is located in Letchworth on Sollershott East. The First Garden City Heritage Museum tells the story of the Garden City Movement from its origins to the present day. It is housed

once worked on the site, and visitors can also learn something of other aspects of Cork’s industrial heritage.

Europe which present organisations and networks dealing with industrial heritage as well as websites, which present the industrial heritage of a country or a region – most of them from a tourism point [...] taken into the collection as this may become unmanageable. An exception was made for industrial UNESCO World Heritage Sites, which you can find on top of the list. Numerous links can also be found on single

throwing away their wool because it could not be sold on national markets. The co-operative combines heritage elements with a commercial business. A shearing programme is organised for some 250 farmers within [...] machinery dating from the nineteenth century has been used to demonstrate the history of the woollen industry and the quality of French engineering. An annual Fête de la Laine is held in St Pierreville in August

centuries. Since 1972 visitors have been able to explore some of the most spectacular remains of the industry at the Llechwedd Slate Caverns. The ‘caverns’ are actually slate mines, although in the English [...] appropriately built in 1854. The location is part of the North West Wales Slate Landscape World Heritage Site.

czech brewing industry, is situated in Central Bohemian Region, some 60 km north of Prague. The village is located on the edge of Kokořínsko Natural Reserve and was declared a Rural Heritage Zone with the [...] wasn´t until the very end of the 19th century, when the owner had it rebuilt in the form of an industrial steam-powered production unit. The redevelopment project was authored by a renowned engineer, Johan [...] n, set up in October 2009, administers the premises seeking to preserve and revive this unique industrial monument, endeavouring to organize recurrent open days and cultural events and offering guided

applied the death penalty to protect its industry but John smuggled his drawings back to England. In 1718, the brothers patented the Italian technology in England. They completed a new five-storey factory [...] silk in England by building a water-powered factory. It was an inspiration to later industrialists, including Richard Arkwright. The Lombe’s silk mill owed its success to John Lombe’s industrial espionage [...] rich man with a knighthood. After the Lombe patent expired in 1732, the silk industry expanded in several places in England, especially, at Stockport and Macclesfield in Cheshire. The Derby Silk Mill is

The outstanding monuments of the Industrial Revolution period in Oporto are the two wrought-iron bridges that cross the River Douro. Both provide evidence of international co-operation in civil engineering

history of industrial development and technical progress in Italy and in Europe, by showing real machines, scientific instrumentations and demonstrations of factory operations belonging to the industrial heritage

from Rhodes in 1530 in the face of the advancing Ottoman threat. However, the Industrial Revolution, which began in England in 1767 with the invention of the Spinning Jenny, rapidly overwhelmed Maltese [...] government subsidies, the port industry proved to be a chronic loss-maker and new sectors were developed, particularly in the areas of electronics and pharmaceuticals. However, industry accounts for only a small [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MALTA Listen Malta and its surrounding islands have very little in the way of natural resources. Only the limestone, which is suitable for making cement. Additionally, the

south of England. By 1812 he was the managing partner of the Horseley Iron and Coal Company at Tipton, near Birmingham. He may have gained capital from his mother and knowledge of the iron industry from his [...] made them for both iron and wooden steamships. Manby also turned his attention from around 1819 to industrial opportunities in France. In 1822 he opened an engineering works at Charenton near Paris. By 1825 [...] The French company went bankrupt in the financial crisis of 1833. In around 1840 Manby returned to England. He sold the Horseley ironworks a few years later. His eldest son Charles continued as a highly regarded

the west of France, far away from the borders. Nobody in Klingenthal would be aware of this industrial heritage without the "Association pour la Sauvegarde du Klingenthal" (Association for the preservation [...] by elaborately reconstructed workshops and a relevant collection of tools and products. An industrial heritage trail with displays provides insights into the architectural remains.

existing society is the history of class struggles’ have shaped the vocabulary of many accounts of industrial development, even those written by writers with philosophies directly opposed to Marxism. Karl [...] particularly through the First International, formed in 1864. His analysis of economic history, that industrial capitalism had created a proletariat, whose members could only live by selling their labour, has [...] Marx’s grave in Highgate Cemetery, London, for many years the object of pilgrimage by visitors to England from communist countries, dates from 1954 when it was erected by the Communist Party of Great Britain

central square by the cathedral, but it provides a focus for the interpretation of the area’s industrial heritage. Tours from the museum guide visits to a variety of sites, including mine workings that extend

The rocky south-west coast of Sardinia combines natural beauty and impressive industrial heritage. The Miniera di Masua and Porto Flavia are within the Geological Mining Park of Sardinia. Mining at Masua

Lead mining was an important industry in the area around Linares in Andalucia. It began in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After 1849 it developed with rail transport and new investment to become [...] beam-engine houses and chimneys are still part of the landscape. An interpretation centre for the industry has been created in the centre of Linares in the old goods shed of the Madrid railway station. The [...] information panels, historical objects and models and provides information about visiting the mining heritage of the region by car or on walks along well-marked trails, some of them on old railway lines. There

vast former industrial area of Landek is protected natural heritage and combines beautiful nature with an exhibition mapping out the progress of humankind from Stone Age through the Industrial Revolution