the old shaft (Stari jasek) was opened in 1999. Visitors are able to explore underground workings in one part of the mine, where there is a display relating to a disaster of 1893 when 18 men died in a methane

complex of historic buildings is very large and located on the edge of the city centre. The museum is in one of the historic buildings of the factory. It displays hundreds of hand guns, rifles, swords and other

Situated on the banks of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, Wigan Pier is one of the northwest’s favourite visitor attractions. No visit to Wigan Pier would be complete without seeing the Trencherfield Mill Engine

Sparta, in the southern Pelopponese, lies in the heart of one of the principal olive producing areas in the Mediterranean region. The museum, a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of

least 6 collieries they owned around the area including Darley Main, Stainborough, and Ossett. It was one of the first buildings lit by electricity from 1885, and there are displays on this being put up in

Copper has been mined in the Radmer valley since the Bronze Age. Between 1590 and 1620 Radmer was one of the most important Alpine copper mining regions. In 1855 the mine was closed, leaving a total of

he built a very large modern brewery. He took partnerships in other breweries in Serbia and became one of the richest people in the country. He became a Serbian citizen and was an influential governor of [...] exploration he could develop the mine only by creating a limited company with French capital, keeping one fifth of the shares himself. The mine at Bor became the largest copper producer in Europe and continues

diversified into road vehicles, tanks and aircraft and was absorbed by ThyssenKrupp. Henschel was one of the wealthiest women in Germany. She supported many causes in health and welfare, especially the [...] schools for their children, health insurance, accident insurance and a forest recreation centre. One of the sites of the engineering works is now used by the University of Kassel, where the Institute

cotton thread was made by drawing it through an operator’s fingers from a spinning wheel to a spindle, one thread at a time. In around 1764, Hargreaves built a wooden frame that could hold a spinning wheel [...] manually and required a skilled operator but it could feed eight (later sixteen) spindles rather than one. He used it in his own workshop and supplied machines to nearby mills. Although the thread was not

Gottlieb Daimler was one of the outstanding pioneers of the motor industry. Born at Schorndorf, Wurtemburg, he studied at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart, before travelling to enlarge his understanding of [...] attached an engine to a bicycle, producing the first motorcycle, in 1885, and the following year attached one of their engines to a carriage. His first proper motorcar appeared in 1889. The following year with

curriculum. To do this, they choose one (or more) leading study programme, which can be expanded to include lectures from other programmes as desired. ERIH provided one of these lectures. Thus, the University

This is one of England´s oldest and largest traditional working breweries. Here, you can join one of the daily Brewery Tours to see the beers actually being made using natural ingredients and traditional

and revolutionised bath time in thousands of ordinary people's homes. Hugo Junkers (1859-1935) was one of the greatest German engineers and entrepreneurs. No less than 300 patents were issued in his name [...] mechanisms and model aircraft alongside other exhibits related to Junkers thermal technology achievements. One of the unexpected high points is the only remaining steel experimental house of Hugo Junkers – a research

(Saxony). With its length of almost 100 kilometres, the rafting ditch Elsterflossgraben represents one of the longest surviving artificial ditch systems in Europe. "Elsterflossgraben" was thus of outstanding [...] opened a chemical factory in 1812 that processed by-products of salt production and is considered one of the first nuclei of today's chemical region. With the increasing use of coal as fuel and the railway

Barrow-in-Furness was one of the few wholly new towns that grew up during Britain’s Industrial Revolution. In the early nineteenth century it was a hamlet in the parish of Dalton with a tiny population [...] plates produced by the Haematite Iron Co, and it launched its first ship in 1873. Barrow-in-Furness is one of the few planned cities in England. The rectangular, tree-lined streets are lined with stately terraced

George Cadbury was quite a man. He left us two fantastic legacies. No prizes for guessing the first one, but do you know the other? A clue is that to appreciate it fully you need to visit the Birmingham [...] classrooms (“large classes are false economy”, he said) and had a carillon installed in the tower of one – which still plays well known tunes on its bells daily. The impact of this revolutionary environment

Arthur Young (1741-1820) regarded Mistley in Essex as ‘one of the most interesting places to be seen in England’. The first quay was built there about 1720, but in the late eighteenth century the estate [...] Heritage. Moorings were provided for whaling ships, a boatyard built 32-gun frigates and Mistley became one of the principal malting centres in the eastern counties. The malting company Free, Rodwell & Co built

Banbury in Oxfordshire, near the borders of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, was one of England’s liveliest market towns in the nineteenth century. Much of its prosperity was due to the Oxford Canal [...] to reach the navigable River Thames at Oxford in 1790. The canal came to be lined with wharfs, on one of which the town hall of about 1800 was re-erected in 1860 after a new hall had opened in 1854. The

built there in 1855 was one of the biggest in the world, covering 168 hectares. The population of Łodz as an industrial city grew from 18,000 in 1851 to 100,000 in 1878. It became one of the most important

to the north-east of the town centre. Over the centuries, several shafts were sunk, making Idrija one of the largest mercury mines in the world. At the end of the 18th century, no fewer than 1,350 miners [...] diameter. An underground visit is possible to the Anthony's shaft , which was sunk in 1500 and is one of the oldest preserved mine shafts in Europe. The underground tour leads 1,200 metres into the mine's