village of Port Sunlight, one of the most significant of its kind in Europe. He grew up in Bolton and entered his father’s grocery business at the age of 16, becoming a partner in 1872. He and his brother, James

they needed for their work at great expense from Britain. Zimmerman decided, at the age of 28, to enter this field himself. He visited Britain to see the industry in person and buy examples of the equipment

more than half of which were exported. For many years it had made only motorcycles, but in 1957 re-entered the car market with the Prinz model . NSU was one of only three companies to market motor cars with

by Newson Garrett in 1846. It had its own branch railway line that reached here from Saxmundham entering the maltings through the central arch beneath clock tower and cupola. Newson was the younger brother

this, he began a major project for the 30-km Morskoy ship canal to allow large sea-going vessels to enter St Petersburg’s ports. When he died in 1880, before the canal was completed, he was buried at his

became a major producer of railway equipment, armaments and later trolleybuses and aircraft. Breda entered politics in 1866 and was elected to the Italian parliament as a deputy and then a senator, which

numerous small towers and alcoves, decorated with glazed terracotta figures. Each building can be entered over dry land or from the canals that intersect the area. The Speicherstadt extends over 1.5 km and

played a decisive part in the industrial history of Liège. But more later … At the start, visitors enter another world. The room seems dark, it smells of metal and rust. It is as if you had been transported

With the completion of Central Shaft XII in 1932, one of the most efficient coal mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not long after its demise in 1986, today's ERIH Anchor Point began

locomotives in Europe, with works at Zabrze in Silesia and at Dortmund, as well as those in Berlin. It entered a period of relative decline after the death of August Borsig`s son Albert in 1878, and went through

century. Another innovator, Count Henrich zu Stollberg-Wernigerode, also recognised the opportunity to enter the new technology of coke-fired blast furnaces. His Henrichshütte Ironworks , founded in 1854 and

development of the business owed much to her nephew, one of five of the sons of Fritz Steiff who entered her business. He had studied in England, and attended art school in Stuttgart where he had particularly

field in the following decades. In 1890 he introduced a nozzle that increased the speed of steam entering a turbine, and designed new forms of reduction gearing necessitated by higher turbine speeds. He

ten years later began to work in the office of Sir Robert Smirke. On Smirke`s recommendation he entered the Royal Academy School, which enabled him to study in Italy where he was particularly impressed

embodiment of Howard´s dream and continues to represent a potent model for community design as it enters its second century. First Garden City Limited was formed in 1903 and invited a number of architects

stipulated a reward of one million francs for inventing a flax spinning machine. Philippe de Girard entered the competition and after a month he registered his patent. Girard constructed a trial version of

the present-day concern. The whole of Luxemburg's economy profited from the fact that the country entered the German Customs Union in 1842. The road network was extended, two railway companies were set up

industry meanwhile host museums devoted to cutlery, whereas new players such as Portugal did not (yet) enter this level of awareness with history. Moreover, the global pattern of the cutlery trade has changed

constantly growing demand for raw materials and for sales markets - and the major European powers entered into increasingly fierce competition for them. However, France's new colonies only achieved their