particularly in the manufacture and working of crystal, used for fine table wares, ornaments and chandeliers. Crystal glass in the past incorporated a high proportion of lead, but it is now made by a lead-free
nationalized in 1945, then became privately owned again in 1993. It still produces high-quality, hand-made glasswares. Tours of the factory take visitors to see the glass-blowers at work in the furnace building
version, is newly composed each year, as is the specially developed choreography, which translates the hand movements and gestures of work from the past into modern movements. Photos and videos will be taken [...] countries the participants danced to the music of Dario Schüler and the choreography of Truong Hai Le. Beforehand, we got people in the mood for the dance with a countdown video. Countdown video 'WORK it OUT'
museum. Here visitors can find out more about the past history of the local textile industry at first hand. In the offices they can eavesdrop on the clerks. Later they can travel alongside the bales of jute
tractors, sports cars and racing cars. Interactive displays and equipment let visitors learn through hands-on experience – including working models of aerodynamics and piston operation, driving simulators and
‘Wensleydale’. The visitor centre at the creamery has displays showing how Wensleydale was made by hand in farmhouses, and how it continues to be produced in the factory. There are demonstrations of the
new channel - whether it's videos of major attractions such as Extraschicht in the Ruhr District, hands-on highlights like the Czech Dolní Vítkovice industrial complex or first impressions of the industrial
advertising prints, toy theatre sheets, product labels and wallpaper. Today the workshop still uses hand-operated presses to produce original images. Historical equipment for stencilling, printing and paper-cutting
14 he was apprenticed to a ‘reed-maker’, who made the combs that separated the warp threads on handlooms. He left his apprenticeship within a month as he said he had already learned everything about the [...] 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
geological conditions. Between April and October, visitors aware of their health can bathe their hands and feet in the brine in an outdoor spa, and of course there is also a chance to taste the "white
invented a hitherto unheard of machine: the water frame. It could spin fine yarn in a way which only hand driven spinning wheels had been able to do until then: but at an unprecedented speed. In 1771 Arkwright
industrial past. Families and schools are especially well catered for with educational display cases and hands-on museum games with which they can test their skills. The top storey of the museum can be comfortably
in the city and explore how it relates to us and our lives today. The camp adopts an explicitly hands-on approach. In addition to the exciting insights into industrial heritage, the agenda includes work
the afternoon provide an opportunity for specific exchanges in given thematic groups to develop hands-on storytelling methods and implementations. Traditionally, the conference is flanked by the annual
dipped a screen the size of a sheet of paper into the vat and with it pulled out a portion of pulp. He handed the screen over to a colleague who in an elegant rolling motion dumped the dripping mat of fibres [...] in the 12th century. After the muslim emirates north of the Mediterranean Sea fell into christian hands again, european scholars, magistrates and merchants quickly discovered the advantages of the new writing [...] Nicolas Louis Robert in 1798. He constructed a long flexible screen of wire mesh which, powered by a hand crank, rotated continuously, not unlike a conveyor belt. While it rotated, pulp was shovelled onto
the vast Dinorwig slate quarry. Here you can see slate-splitting demonstrations by traditional hand-craftsmen revealing the skills and artistry of generations of quarry workers. Much of the site still looks
air through two lip pipes: "Cuckoo!" For 300 years the people in the German Black Forest delivered handmade cuckoo clocks all over the world. That said, masses of other clocks have been produced here, from
and to follow the Rat Trail. There are also opportunities for prospective young engineers to get hands on experience in an effort to help provide future engineers.
