The museum also examines the working lives of the weavers and the role of guilds. After seeing a hand-loom workshop from the mid-nineteenth century visitors experience a working power-loom. They can handle

city centre. The museum is in one of the historic buildings of the factory. It displays hundreds of hand guns, rifles, swords and other weapons in glass cases. It also shows some field guns and missiles

was born into a farming family in Ayrshire, south-west Scotland. As a boy he was apprenticed to a hand-loom weaver at Kilbarchan, west of Glasgow. This introduced him to methods of bleaching and the limits

mass-produced, industry as a whole expanded only slowly. Many high-value goods were still made by hand, as there was no shortage of labour; entrepreneurs could pay low wages, particularly as many people

Svedinos . The collection comprises more than a hundred motor vehicles include some heavy trucks and some hand-made cars, and about 40 aircraft. The earliest car is a Bullerbilen of 1898. There are six Model-T

professionals and volunteers - people who experienced life in these industrial communities at first hand. Effective methods are needed to transfer and share knowledge with new staff and volunteers entering

The Katowice College of Individual Interdisciplinary Studies lets students individually design their curriculum. To do this, they choose one (or more) leading study programme, which can be expanded to

places 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

For more than 30 years she ran and developed the ironworks and the ironworks village with a firm hand and sometimes questionable methods, earning her the nickname 'Her Grace'. In addition to the ironworks

ist a linotype-typograph built 1861. You won't forget the interaction between band wheels, belts and hand gears of this mechanical artwork. The colleagues show the machines and tell about card games manufacture

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

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.

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

disputed by the government of Ukraine, based in Kiev, and separatist forces. The town has changed hands several times during the dispute. The area has extensive reserves of very pure salt that have only

beehive), in a former vat house, portrays the mill’s history and enables visitors to make paper by hand. The life of Michael Drewsen is illustrated in the city museum, which is also responsible for a small

districts. The Foundation addresses this development with research on the industrial history of Silesia, hands-on protection of the tangible industrial heritage and education on the economic factors underlying

preserving fish. The museum is notable for its narrow gauge railway, originally built with second-hand equipment, to serve villages along this stretch of coast after the Second World War.

find out how to design your own ship. Test different hull designs in a mini experiment tank. Try your hand at smoothing and carving a real wax hull model.

printed designs. He bought fabric from weavers in Augsburg and had it printed in Hamburg and then hand-coloured in Augsburg. In 1759 he opened his own printing works but continued to put out the work of [...] and from a growing textile sector in Augsburg that benefitted from his skilled workforce. Schüle handed management to his sons in 1792 and then returned ten years later but the business closed in 1808

one of the most important textile manufacturing cities in Europe. Łodz was a traditional area for hand-made textiles. From the 1820s mechanised mills for the woollen and flax industries were built, notably