Santorini is an island in the Cyclades in the Southern Aegean Sea. The island produces crops of large cucumbers, Spanish vetchling, capers and aubergines. Cherry tomatoes cultivated there from the lat
but is conserved, and interpreted with displays about its history and a working model. The Crystal d’Arques glassworks and the preserved railway, the Chemin de Fer Touristique de la Vallée de l’Aa are
early pioneers. It starts with a big screen showing original footage of historical Zeppelin flights. A 3D documentary provides an almost physical impression of the airships' tremendous size. Visitors who board
closed by the founder’s grandsons in 1886. The buildings that remain include Mill ‘C’ of 1815-16, Mill ‘D’ of 1826 and Mill ‘E’ of 1830, all iron-framed structures on the same basic principles that were pioneered
history of trams in the region but also a display of buses and a collection of scale models. Pavilion D exhibits luxury cars such as Rolls-Royce and Cadillac.
Castellar de n’Hug about 90 km north of Barcelona. The works was opened in 1904 by the Companyia General d’Asfalts i Portland, SA, formed in 1901 by the entrepreneur Eusebi Guell and partners. It is built in
The ironworks in the Pays Loire Val d'Abois were once known all over the world. The area manufactured weapons for the French Revolution, pipelines for Madrid and Paris, and components for building the [...] disused - in La Guerche sur l'Aubois is currently being restored. Torteron in the north of the Val d'Abois shows the extent to which urban planning was influenced by the regional industries. Beffes has
Eperon d’Or (the ‘golden spur’) is a museum in a factory of fine-quality shoes in the traditional centre of Belgian shoemaking. The company was started by Emiel Vandommele in 1863. It became the official
ly steep at 52%. The funicular was built in 1890 by a contractor from the Croatian city of Osijek, D. W. Klein, to replace a long flight of steps. It was powered by a steam engine housed in a building
Slavkov in 1793 by Johann Georg Paulus which prospered under the management of Johann Georg Lippers (d 1843) and Wenzel Haas (1772-1830). By 1867 the company was known as Haas und Lippert, and subsequently
led to many other examples. Brunel was knighted by Queen Victoria and in France received the Légion d'honneur. His health deteriorated but he continued to help his son Isambard with engineering projects
The inventor and businessman Andras Mechwart led the Ganz engineering company at Budapest after the death in 1867 of its founder, Abraham Ganz . He joined the company in 1859 and remained with it for
Paris and qualified as a surgeon. In 1780 he was appointed private physician to Duc Louis-Phillipe d’Orléans, who let Leblanc use his private laboratory for experiments. The problem of alkali supply was [...] anhydrous sodium carbonate (NA 2 CO 3 ) – also known as ‘soda ash’. Leblanc set up a plant with the Duc d’Orléans. However, the Revolutionary government in France confiscated it shortly afterwards, annulled
d milk. By 1912 he was selling over 1,000,000 litres of milk every week and was awarded the Legion d’honneur for reducing disease in schoolchildren. Maggi understood the importance of advertising and
l'industrie for the international exhibition in Paris of 1855, for which he was awarded the legion d’honneur. Over the next ten years he built railways in the south-west of England and became involved
the commission to build the Rhine bridge between Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. He was awarded the Légion d’honneur of France and the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown.
In 1782 he invented an iron cement to seal steam engine components. In 1799 he patented the long ‘D-slide’ steam valve. For marine markets, Murdoch designed the engine for Robert Fulton to use in the
in Vienna. Lack of capital forced him into partnership with a rival, the American, Colonel William d’Alton Mann (1839-1920), a retired cavalryman, who had supplied the first sleeping car in Great Britain
Crespi was principally responsible for the building of Crespi d’Adda the most spectacular industrial community in Italy. The cotton mills at Crespi d’Adda, established by his father in 1878, were powered by [...] machinery. He then joined his father and was responsible for many of the buildings for which Crespi d’Adda has become famous, including the family residence, a ‘castle’ built in 1894-97 to the design of [...] succession of early hydro-electric plants and in 1909 a hydro-electric plant was installed at Crespi d’Adda itself. Crespi himself had a profound understanding of electrical engineering, and developed financial
