a time, Cyprus profited from the trade in salt, produced at the lakes around Larnaka. The export of sugar, made from sugarcane and referred to as “sweet salt”, gained momentum in the 14th century. But
Heynitz was acknowledged in his lifetime as the greatest expert in Germany on mining, metallurgy, salt workings and the mining of coins. He was the uncle of Count Wilhelm Friedrich von Reden (1752-1815)
became government Director of Mining and Mechanical Engineering. He designed conveyor system at the salt works at Reichenhall. The publication of his book "Vollständige Theorie der Saug- und Hebepumpen"
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: plentiful natural resources, particularly iron ore and salt, and a long mining tradition. The Celts, for instance, developed underground salt mining to a proto-industrial level long before the Common
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creator of a workers’ colony in the tradition established in Britain by Robert Owen and Sir Titus Salt. In 1890 he re-located his textile factory from Sants in present day Barcelona to his Can Soler de
New Schio, a workers’ colony in the tradition established in Britain by Robert Owen and Sir Titus Salt, that was designed by the architect Antoni Caragaro Negrin (1821-98). He was a devout Catholic and
Sir Titus Salt was one of the most eminent entrepreneurs in Victorian Britain, and left a lasting legacy of buildings. He was born at Morley, Yorkshire, the son of a woolstapler who traded in Bradford [...] architects Lockwood & Mawson. The 824 houses in the village of Saltaire accommodated 4300 people by 1871. Salt was a Congregationalist by religion, and constructed a fine chapel for that denomination at Saltaire
at the University of Brussels. His company became involved in mining, producing coal, limestone and salt for use in chemical works, and still operates about 70 plants world-wide.
in the development of a new type of electrolytic cell for producing caustic soda and chlorine from salt that led to establishment of Hooker Electrochemical Co at Niagara Falls. His most important innovation
the brine equally over the abundant number of salt pans. A salt workshop teaches them how to use the scoop of salt and how to collect the filtered salt in baskets. Those who wish to do so can walk up [...] stones - out of this, the salt workers of Salinas de Añana have created a unique man-made environment, looking like an abstract work of art from above. Everything is encrusted with salt, especially the terraced [...] terraced wooden structures that support the salt pans on the slopes of the narrow valley. The quality of the salt, extracted here over thousands of years, is globally unprecedented, and with tradition having
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