a museum in 1997. The most important exhibit is the original continuous board mill, the first in Finland, which was made by Heinrich Füllner in Lower Silesia and continued in operation until 1978. The machine
The State Cartridge Factory (Lapuan Patruunatehdas, or Paukku) was established in 1923 to support Finland’s security after it declared independence from Russia in 1917. The Lapua brand of cartridges was exported
This museum of cars for the region of South Karelia in south-east Finland was created by a voluntary association in 1991. It is housed in a former barn close to motorway 6. Since 2022, it has been joined
museum for the area in 1982. It portrays the last hundred years of life on farms in that part of Finland, showing above all the impact of mechanisation on agriculture. The museum has a collection of more
1929 by the company Ab Kemi, which developed sawmills and cellulose pulp mills in several parts of Finland. They are the last houses of about 40. The timber buildings are painted in traditional colours and
sustainably? The keynote lectures will address the above questions based on case studies from Germany, Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, and Poland. The topics cover climate change, water management as well as sus
production finally ceased in 2011. The place is a real treasure of the history of industrialisation in Finland. In the foundry hall, all the machines are still in place and the workers' overalls hang on the hooks
furnaces, the forge and the machine shops, and establishing good living conditions for the workers. Finland’s first machinery workshop was built at Fiskars in 1837. The first Finnish steam engine was constructed
exceptionally well-preserved blast furnace from 1823 is one of the few remaining blast furnaces in Finland and can be visited as part of a guided tour, during which you can take a look inside the furnace
stockings and boots to the county hospital and the Swedish army, especially during the war with Finland in 1808-9. She imported wool from Denmark and Iceland and created a factory at her farm, which she
to the navy and began a career designing and improving canals. He designed the Saimaa Canal in Finland and the enlargement of locks on the Trollhätte Canal in Sweden. With his son Werner he designed the
manufactories gradually emerged, such as the saw mill in Räpina, glass works at Põltsama ... more FINLANDFinland’s rise as a prosperous industrial nation is due primarily to two very different factors: its extensive
thirties, Putilov left the military to develop business interests. He organized iron smelting in Finland using bog iron deposits transported on the Saimaa Canal. He set up iron foundries, made technical
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of Austria-Hungary in the 19th century and still today is one of the ... more Regional Routes in Finland Berlin At the beginning of the 20th century, Berlin had evolved into one of the largest industrial
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decisions that laid the foundation for Sweden’s eventual prosperity: after losing its dominion over Finland in 1809, Sweden surrendered all dreams of great-power status. The national borders have not changed
Factories were moved to areas where wood was abundant, especially the forest regions of Sweden and Finland. But the chemistry of the process created new problems. Although cellulose already provided a high
All the sites described are included on the ERIH website, among them the two ERIH members Baruth Glassmaking Village , widely regarded as one of the best-preserved glassworks in Europe, and the Immenh
