Franz Josef Gerstner in 1807, but was realised by his son Franz Antonin Gerstner, a professor at Vienna Polytechnic, who studied similar lines in England. The line was converted to steam operation in 1870

The company Hackl und Söhne, which manufactured high quality clothing, was established in Vienna in 1843, and subsequently set up a factory around a manor house at Weitra in Lower Austria, 8 km south-east

Bodensee, and take refreshments at two restaurants. The cars, of modern construction, were built in Vienna, and can carry up to 80 passengers. The museum is located in a range of new buildings at the lower

Mining Museum at Sopron, 210 km W of Budapest on the eastern slopes of the Alpes, and 70 km south of Vienna holds the largest collection of mining artefacts in Hungary. It is located in one of the Baroque

The Vienna Arsenal is a huge industrial complex that once supplied one of the largest European armies. Unlike the Arsenale in Venice, it has no ancient origins, having been established in 1849 on the

mountain town near Turin that was a centre of silk manufacturing. Max Gütermann created a company in Vienna to manufacture silk thread for sewing in 1864. Because he needed soft water, he opened a factory

metals. In the mid-16th century, Hungary became part of the Habsburg Empire, and the monarchs in Vienna used their new domains mainly to supply food for the empire. Mountainous, poorly accessible Slovakia [...] The first railway line, from Bratislava to nearby Svätý Jur, opened in 1840 and soon extended to Vienna. Budapest was connected in 1850, and in 1872 trains were crossing the country from Košice in the [...] developed on the Danube. Thanks to its location on the river and its proximity to the metropolis of Vienna, Bratislava gradually developed into an urban centre with industrial operations. When Czechoslovakia

with Bela Egger (later Brown Boveri) in Vienna rather than to attend university, although he surreptitiously went to lectures at the Technical University of Vienna. He went to work in 1898 for Lohner, a

large collection of vehicles made and used in the town, the oldest of which is a horse tram built in Vienna in 1869. A 2-axle steeple cab electric locomotive used to haul freight wagons on the network is also

‘pater-noster’ from Borzas, and the first steam engine used in present-day Romania, brought from Vienna in 1853 to work a combined corn- and oil-mill, as well as several steam pumping engines from met

From Vienna to Trieste in 13 hours and 4 minutes - in 1857, when the last track of the Südbahn was laid, this was considered a sensation. Until then, crossing the Alps had been a challenging and time-consuming

the lake from which it takes its name. Motive power is provided by three steam locomotives built in Vienna in 1899, and by a fourth built to the same original design in 2005. The Zillertalbahn was built to

fahr(T)raum means ‘driving dream’ and ‘driving space’. Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951) began his career in Vienna at the age of 18 and became one of the world’s most prolific and influential automobile designers

between Gloggnitz and Murzzuschlag built in 1848-54 was part of the Sudbahn, the railway that linked Vienna, capital of the Habsburg Empire, with the principal imperial port at Trieste. It was the first main

plant operation and electricity transmission. This state-of-the-art equipment had to be shipped from Vienna and Budapest to Užice. The king of Serbia, Aleksandar Obrenović (1876-1903), laid the foundation

building next to the Ferris Wheel since 2023. Its permanent exhibition tells the 250-year history of Vienna's amusement park.

(then Troppau), in the present-day Czech Republic, who had worked with Otto Wagner (1841-1918) in Vienna. The Tietz family were forced to flee from Germany in the early years of the Third Reich, and were

pioneering Heinkel He 162 Salamander jet fighter, but the aircraft were assembled at the airfield at Vienna Schwechat. A model of a Salamander aircraft is displayed in the workings, and there is a monument

mines officer Johann Frendl. In 1787 the mines became the property of the Habsburg government in Vienna. Extraction continued during the nineteenth century, but new technology employed from the late 1940s

to build a channel providing enough water to operate the watermill. Siemens Schuckert Werke from Vienna submitted the best electrical works offer at the tender held on 28 January 1906. The transmission