colonies, but industrialisation did not begin there until the mid-19th century or later. A direct link is therefore difficult to discern, but there too the immense influx of capital from the slave economy [...] "free". This was the ideological legitimisation that industrialised mass society needed. Related Links WIKIPEDIA: Eric Williams 'Capitalism and Slavery' The Importance of Atlantic Slavery for the 18th

consumption and massive restrictions on the supply of ordinary goods for the population. Related Links WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Slovakia World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Slovakia Žilina. Cloth

oriented toward finished goods, its high educational level and a great proportion of services. Related Links WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Slovenia World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Slovenia Domžale. J

Anderson, a suffragette and the first woman to qualify as a Doctor in Great Britain. Good transport links and a tidal river created ideal conditions for the production of malt. Barley the principal product

and huge workshops in iron and steel works. The various production sites and housing estates were linked by a complex and dense network of railways. In 1854 the first railway line was opened between Gijón

built, 800 of them at Southampton. Southampton was the base until 1958 for flying boat services that linked the United Kingdom with distant parts of the British Empire, and during the Second World War nearby

economy, Spain had, by the early 1970s, developed into a leading industrial nation. Related Links ERIH Link List WIKIPEDIA: Revolución industrial en España WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Spain World Atlas: The

established as a private venture by Jack James, the lock keeper from 1947 until 1962, and is now linked to the National Waterways Museum at Gloucester. Its displays relate to canals all over England, but

markets with the aim of promoting a productive, prosperous society, reached its zenith. Related Links ERIH Link List WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Sweden World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Sweden Ski [...] to Malmo in the south and Gothenburg in the west opened in 1864. By the start of the 20th century links had been constructed to the north, including the ore railway from Luleå to Narvik in Norway, which

trophies, and demonstrates its uses in the households of all social classes. The museum has close links with the Swedish Glass Academy and with designers, and there are many examples of the best contemporary

account of the precarious agricultural conditions, became dependent on immigration. Related Links ERIH Link List WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Switzerland World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Switzerland

The suspension bridge that links Buda with Pest is one of Europe’s most iconic bridges, a monument to Hungarian nationalist feeling of the mid-19th century and to Hungary’s recovery from the destruction

under the sea and parts overland, linking nine fishing communities. Initially it operated only during the fishing season between January and April, but in 1868 was linked to the national network. From 1873 [...] experiment were made, using masts constructed from fir logs, with wireless telegraphy, and a wireless link was opened between Sorvagen and Rost in 1906. Two years later a ship telegraph service was introduced

General from 1862 for 20 years. In 1845 he was asked to undertake studies for the proposed canal to link the Mediterranean and the Red Sea through Suez and came to the crucial conclusion that the two seas

quarrymen in the village of Abergynolwyn, and a railway, with the unusual gauge of 686 mm (2 ft 3 in) linking the quarry with the village of Tywyn on the coast where a station on the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast

Europe. Tavistock was the inland terminus of the Tavistock Canal, an early 19th century waterway which linked the town to the copper port of Morwellham Quay on the River Tamar. The museum is located in the centre

was adapted from the house built in 1894 by a wealthy Norwegian when a submarine cable was laid linking Iceland with the Faroe Islands, Scotland and the rest of the world. Much of the original equipment

between the western and eastern parts of Norway. It was built in two stages, the more southerly linking the lower end of Lake Norsjø with Skien being completed in 1861, and the section south from Dalen

harbours in Scotland, and was largely responsible for the engineering of the Caledonian Canal, which linked the east and west coasts of Scotland. In 1808-10 he paid two visits to Sweden to give advice on the [...] Canal. He was engineer from 1815 to the Holyhead Road Commission, and greatly improved the principal link between London and Dublin, which included numerous bridges, among them the innovatory suspension bridge

by Hans Hollein (1934-2014), opened in 1982 and was re-constructed in 2006-07. The museum fosters links between the city’s textile industries and practising artists and it holds collections of textile patterns