Archibald Hood was one of the mining engineers who transformed the coal industry in Europe in the course of the 19th century. He was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, the son of a colliery overman. His family [...] Lothian Coal Co, which in the same year began to sink the Lady Victoria pit, now the Scottish Mining Museum. The colliery came to employ 1200 men and had a 91 year working life. The company controlled 5700 [...] village of Newtongrange alongside the Lady Victoria pit. Hood was also a prominent figure in the coal industry of South Wales. In 1862 he established the Glamorgan Coal Co, and from 1867 was resident in Cardiff
distinction in mechanical engineering and played a large part in the development of the textile industry in Germany, but his principal achievement was to contribute substantially to the establishment of [...] the German armed forces by 1918. He was a member of the committee that established the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
company Duro Felguera SA. Many buildings survive and some are included in the Asturian Museum of the Steel Industry. [...] Asturias in the north of Spain had a small-scale iron industry in the eighteenth century. However, it had no large blast furnaces to make cast iron or works to manufacture wrought-iron until the investments
was Natalia Salazar Mac Mahón. Victor studied civil engineering at Liége in Belgium and researched industry in Germany. His brother Benigno also studied engineering in Liége and they would later work closely [...] made Marquis of Chávarri in 1914. A monument to him was put up in Portugalete in 1903 and the RIALIA museum shows material connected with his enterprises and those of his son, also called Victor Chávarri
in 1800 in the monastery at St Gallen, he became fascinated. He studied examples of machinery at Chemnitz in Saxony and designed spinning machines of his own. In 1805 he began a cotton-spinning company [...] textile machinery. It became the leading supplier of equipment for the early growth of the cotton industry in the region. During the next 25 years the company diversified into other branches of mechanical
(1854-1900), Victor José Luis Paulino de Chávarri y Anduiza became a major figure in the Basque steel industry while at the same time diversifying his business interests. He grew up in Portugalete, on the navigable [...] where his father and grandparents had made the family fortunes in iron-ore dealing and the steel industry. His father established the joint-stock company Sociedad Anónima de Metalurgia y Construcciones [...] merged with two other companies to create Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, which dominated the Spanish steel industry and was for a time the largest company of any kind in Spain. Victor junior led the new company as
Petersburg owned by the government. In the early 1850s the young Nobel studied and gained experience of industry in France, Italy, Germany and the United States. He began to develop nitroglycerine in 1859-60, [...] as synthetic fibres and dyestuffs. Seven buildings of Nobel’s factory of 1875 are preserved as a museum at Hurum in Norway, his laboratory and mansion, used in his last years, are preserved at Karlskroga
experience as a journeyman. At the age 23 he arrived at Chemnitz in Saxony, where he worked for Carl Gottlieb Haubold (1783-1856), founder of the Chemnitzer Maschinenbau company who is regarded as the father [...] Richard Hartmann was one of the leading figures in the engineering industry that flourished in Saxony from the mid-nineteenth century. He was not a native of Saxony having been born at Barr in Alsace, [...] father of mechanical engineering in the city. He was recognised as a citizen of Chemnitz from 1837 which enabled to set up his own business, a workshop repairing cotton spinning machines, with a partner and
metallic ores. In 1798 he was appointed government technical adviser for the development of the iron industry in Upper Silesia and, again with Reden, built the Königshütte (Royal Ironworks) at Chorzów. He spent [...] an Italian merchant at Gleiwitz (Gliwice) in 1804 and their children continued to be involved in industry in Silesia after their father’s death. The family mansion was at Pogrzebien, and his Gothic-style [...] in the ironworkers’ cemetery in Gleiwitz (Gliwice), was restored in 2012 and is now in the local museum.
his collection to the Ateneum museum in Helsinki. The development of the Gosta Serlachius Museum of Fine Arts was encouraged by his son R Erik Serlachius (1901-80). The museum was opened in 1945 at the family [...] a leading role in the establishment of national organisations representing the interests of the industry. He was active in the White Army during the Finnish Civil War of 1918, and was sent to Britain in [...] Gosta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation in 1972. A full-time curator was appointed in 1973, and the museum now attracts up to 30,000 visitors a year. The company passed through a succession of mergers in
on experience gained in many other countries, and who influenced the technological development of industry throughout Europe. The son of a trader from Pomerania, Germany, Wolf Christoph Polhem, he was born [...] but the project never materialised. Examples of his tools and models are displayed in the National Museum of Science & Technology, Stockholm, and at Falun.
the National Railway Museum and can be heard online at "Railwaystories". The Pegler family home the mid-eighteenth century Arncott House at Retford has housed the Bassetlaw Museum since 1986. [...] India rubber belting, piping, matting and hoses, many of its products being used in the engineering industry. Alan Pegler gained a pilot’s licence while still at school, and used a light aircraft to chase
the Saar. It was intended as a celebration of Guy Monnet’s plan for the modernisation of French industry as part of the European Coal and Steel Community, but Franju showed the steelworks as an ugly intrusion [...] following year Franju made Hotel des Invalides, an ironic critique of France’s principal military museum. He directed his first feature, La Tete contre les Murs (The Keepers) in 1958, followed by the horror
developments in other European countries and further afield. Supposedly his mind was set on a career in industry by a visit at the age of 13 to a steam-powered textile mill in Enschede. Soon afterwards, in 1835 [...] d in 1827 by Paul van Vlissingen, (1797-1876), and products of both companies are displayed in a museum at Oostenburg, Amsterdam.
ocuments provide evidence about the life and work of the Greg family and their workforce. 3. A Living Museum Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is still a working Cotton Mill producing over 9,000m (10,000 yards) [...] machines working and meet skilled Millworkers with years of experience of working in the cotton industry. 4. The Great Iron Waterwheel and two Steam Engines Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate now offers
(or tourist) industry, hotels, wayside inns, motorway service stations, are readily recognised as part of the industrial heritage. One of the most significant innovations in the industry in the twentieth [...] The museum in the castle has displays on the history of the youth hostel movement, but also on the geology and history of the region, including its industrial history. The entrance to the museum lies [...] lies 300 m from the Deutsche Drahtmuseum (German wire museum).
neighbouring town of Iserlohn have remained important centres of the wire industry to the present day. The German Wire Museum exists since 1965. It was originally housed in a part of the mediaeval Altena [...] wire or wire netting you’re in for a huge and very pleasant surprise when you visit the German Wire Museum in Altena in the Sauerland region, south of the Ruhr. Here you can see everything which has been [...] measure extremely high temperatures and loads with the help of wire. It is no surprise that this museum is located in Altena. The industrial history of the town is brimming over with wire-drawers. Not
and it is regularly opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles [...] trading in 1994. The work of the factory rehabilitation begun in 2000. In May 2003 Prato Textile Museum (just operating since 1975) has been definitively housed in the converted Campolmi textile mill. [...] traditional costumes from all over the world illustrate the worldwide influence of the local textile industry. A special highlight is the continuously updated collection of modern textiles and fashions.
European type foundry, D. Stempel AG (1895-1985) in Frankfurt am Main. The museum demonstrates developments in the printing industry from the beginning of the 19th century right up to the mid-1970s with the [...] industrial heritage by the association “Haus für Industriekultur”. It has been owned by the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt’s department of typecasting, typesetting and print technology since 2001. The collection
