When he returned to Turin he worked as Ferraris’ assistant and went with him to Chicago for the International Electrical Congress. Meeting Thomas Edison and observing American industrial methods made strong [...] computers and is still a global brand. Ivrea is a World Heritage site, where both the Laboratory-Museum and the Olivetti Historical Archive present Olivetti’s story.

and moderniser who managed enterprises in all sectors of Spanish industry. As president of the national institute of industry in the 1970s he led more than 200,000 employees. His family ran a hardware [...] career he was involved as an advisor or trustee in business development, education, training and museums. He argued for the importance of generalist technocratic leaders who brought together a range of

ury Portugal, Guilherme (originally William) Stephens developed the glass industry and gained a national monopoly, with his brother João Diogo (originally John James, 1747–1826). Stephens was born in Cornwall [...] Grande is still the leading centre for glassmaking in Portugal. The mansion Palácio Stephens is a museum of the glass industry.

electrical company that came to be the largest in Germany, and that from its beginnings was an international concern. Born at Lenthe near Hanover, he trained as an engineer while undertaking military service [...] significant role in the development of electric traction, building a locomotive, now in the Duetsches Museum, Munich, that pulled passengers along a 277 m long track at the Berlin exhibition of 1877, and building [...] from 1898 on a site subsequently named Siemenstadt, between Charlottenburg and Spandau. The works museum, founded in 1922, moved with the company after the Second World War to Munich, where company archives

g regular contacts with Engels. He spent much of his time studying in the library of the British Museum and wrote a succession of lengthy works on philosophy and political economy, some of which remained [...] 1867. He maintained links with revolutionaries in many countries, particularly through the First International, formed in 1864. His analysis of economic history, that industrial capitalism had created a p

Bernard Ashley in 1949. Between 1945 and 1952 she worked as a secretary at the London office of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, and gained inspiration for her characteristic designs from an [...] an exhibition of traditional handicrafts organised by the Federation at the Victoria & Albert Museum. From 1953 she began to print her own silk screen designs on to scarves, napkins and tea towels which

including explosives, glass, paper and property development. He took part in politics at regional and national levels, latterly as Senator for Vizcaya. He died unexpectedly of a stroke at the age of 45 in 1900 [...] made Marquis of Chávarri in 1914. A monument to him was put up in Portugalete in 1903 and the RIALIA museum shows material connected with his enterprises and those of his son, also called Victor Chávarri

subsidiaries and manufacturing bases around the world and became the leading supplier of boilers internationally and later an important maker of defence equipment such as tanks and munitions. In 1923, Chávarri [...] taking the name of the Basque village where his ancestors had developed iron-ore mines. The RIALIA museum at Portugalete shows material related to Altos Hornos de Vizcaya and Babcock & Wilcox.

was widely used in every war of the 20th century. From the mid-1860s Nobel began to create a multinational company, with factories at Krummel near Hamburg in Germany, opened in 1865, at Hurum in Norway [...] as synthetic fibres and dyestuffs. Seven buildings of Nobel’s factory of 1875 are preserved as a museum at Hurum in Norway, his laboratory and mansion, used in his last years, are preserved at Karlskroga

forms of engineering, and he succeeded in managing a business of relatively modest size that crossed national frontiers. He was born in Milan, the elder son of Carlo Bugatti (1846-1940), designer of Art Nouveau [...] reckoned to be expensive on fuel, but remained in use until 1958. An example is preserved in the railway museum at Mulhouse. Bugatti’s factories were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War, and after the

his collection to the Ateneum museum in Helsinki. The development of the Gosta Serlachius Museum of Fine Arts was encouraged by his son R Erik Serlachius (1901-80). The museum was opened in 1945 at the family [...] manufacturers of forest products in Finland, as well as playing a leading role in the establishment of national organisations representing the interests of the industry. He was active in the White Army during [...] Gosta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation in 1972. A full-time curator was appointed in 1973, and the museum now attracts up to 30,000 visitors a year. The company passed through a succession of mergers in

problems in transforming designs into products for mass markets. He worked for many prominent international companies including Fiat, IBM and Philips, and in the course of his career made some 25,000 models [...] exhibitions in galleries in many countries. The contents of his workshop and its archives are held by the Museum of Industry and Labour at Sesto San Giovanni.

Canal, but the project never materialised. Examples of his tools and models are displayed in the National Museum of Science & Technology, Stockholm, and at Falun.

recorded by the National Railway Museum and can be heard online at "Railwaystories". The Pegler family home the mid-eighteenth century Arncott House at Retford has housed the Bassetlaw Museum since 1986.

film archive, where he worked until 1949, and in 1938 was amongst the founders of the Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF). His career as a director effectively began in 1949 with Le Sang [...] following year Franju made Hotel des Invalides, an ironic critique of France’s principal military museum. He directed his first feature, La Tete contre les Murs (The Keepers) in 1958, followed by the horror

that specialised in sinking shafts for coal mines, and which had a series of contracts with the National Coal Board in South Wales. Initially the labour force was entirely German, working shifts of eight [...] like Schactbau Thyssen were no longer needed, and Arno Wolff transferred to employment with the National Coal Board from 1981.He worked at Cynheidre pit where he discovered a hundred-year old working where [...] ponies were still intact. He retired in 1988. An account of his life is retained at the Big Pit mining museum.

Europe's most significant hubs of (industrial) culture, home to a Science & Technology Center and the National Center for Film Culture, among other things. Another icon of the emerging industrial city of Łódź [...] Factory’ was the first fully-fledged textile mill in Poland. The site is now home to the Central Museum of Textiles and is considered one of the country's most impressive monuments of industrial architecture [...] insight into 200 years of everyday working life and textile history in Łódź. A special feature of the museum is the way it combines technical and industrial history with art, design, fashion, regional history

residents, have been given a completely new life. Once giants of textile production, they now operate as museums, hotels, cultural institutions or entertainment and trade centres, presenting their rich offer to [...] combining various functions, we were awarded in 2021 with the prestigious title of Best of the World by National Geogrpahic Traveler in the Sustainable Development category. This is a source of great pride for [...] workshops, and learn about the industrial heritage of Łódź, visiting, among others, the Central Textile Museum, Manufaktura Complex, Księży Młyn (Priest Mill Complex) and Monopolis. The main part of the event

e is the official festival venue of the internationally renowned RuhrTriennale arts and culture programme. Sheer nostalgia abounds at the Bochum Railway Museum . Here, on the vast grounds of the former

neutrality by 2050 (already 50% by 2030). There are also targets, benchmarks, demands and concepts at national level. The United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals provide a framework for many activities