loom by springs. It ran on a board between boxes at each end, controlled by a chord in the weaver’s hand. The invention doubled the speed of weaving. It also made it possible to weave broad cloth with one

‘engine’ and its shorter form ‘gin’. Hargreaves could not read and write and worked as a domestic hand-loom weaver with his own spinning wheel and loom in his cottage. At this time, demand for thread was

et vous aurez bonne table et bon gîte’. (‘Your journey will be enchanting. You will be led by the hand. Your yearning for the picturesque will be satisfied and you will have good cuisine and good lodging

of cards recorded a particular pattern and they could be changed to make a different one. This made hand-weaving much faster and more accurate. In 1805 Napoleon declared Jacquard’s invention the property

that it was likely to grow even faster when Arkwright’s patent expired. As cotton weaving was with hand-operated looms they believed there would not be enough weavers for the yarn produced. Cartwright applied [...] problems with his machines. Their action often failed, and they were not much more productive than hand looms – they were not fast and operators could only manage a single loom. He set up a cotton factory

Derwent. Their business became highly successful, producing far more silk threat than the English hand spinners. It employed around 300 people. John Lombe died only a year later. He may have been poisoned

at Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. Elberfeld was an important area for making textiles by hand, with production controlled by a yarn guild. In 1774, Brügelmann married Anna Christina Ochsen (neé

most profitable early invention, in 1843, was to make bronze powder by machine more cheaply than the hand-made product from Germany. He bought a fine house and offices in London and created a large laboratory

Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Rhineland, the Ottoman Empire and India. Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland , was published in four parts in 1863, and in recent years has been

rubber company before the end of 1934. André Citroën died the following year but the firm, in new hands, continued to prosper. The Traction Avant was assembled abroad in factories at Vorst (Belgium), Cologne

prominent place among the creations of local goldsmiths; it is produced by hand in small-scale, family-run workshops, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. The Filigree Route allows you to

production: designed, made, used in Cambridge. The Museum offers a multi-sensory experience for visitors: hands-on exhibits, audio-visual displays, children’s activities and accessible self-guides (including Braille

until 1987, when it was worked out. Transport down the mountain was by aerial ropeway. Mining was by hand until compressed-air drills and mechanical excavators were introduced. The mine has nine levels, four

when Thessaloniki was turning into a large industrial centre and shows that water history goes hand in hand with the history of the city. The old pumping station consists of the engine room, the boiler

it was publicly unveiled in 1909. Bakelite was used in radio housings, distributor caps, telephone hand pieces, electric plugs, jewellery, cameras, ash trays, fountain pens and many other characteristic

decades because they were cheap labour. Not least they learn a lot about the use of hydropower. A hands-on experience provided by several experimental stations invites them to try out different types of

representing early 20th century's state-of-the-art sewage technology. For visitors this is a first hand experience. For instance they can try the crank of the sluice gate that once launched a large water

fireworks, special guided tours, cabaret & comedy, light & laser, street theatre & performance as well as hands-on activities guarantee fun and action for every taste and age. Special highlights this year include

seventh "Days of Industrial Heritage on the Waterfront" for guided tours and demonstrations, visits and hands-on activities to showcase their facilities and tell their stories, with water always playing a major [...] Buxtehude, are located some 100 kilometres from the coast. The Curslack field drainage mill, on the other hand, stands for hundreds of wind-powered versions of its kind that once existed in the marshlands and

solid briquettes are all part of the exciting guided tour. The Museum of Printing Arts , on the other hand, revives several centuries of printing and media history with some 100 fully functional machines.