Woollen cloth was manufactured in cottages across large parts of North and Mid-Wales before the Industrial Revolution, and in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century numerous small-scale water-powered [...] installed in 1949 generates electric power to work 50-year-old looms and can be viewed. The mill museum includes carding engines, spinning mules and warping machines. A 12 minute video shows how the wool

continued until 1999. Appreciation of the area’s industrial history was stimulated by an exhibition Le Miniere in Valtrompia staged in 1985 at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brescia, and local authorities [...] Ecomuseo di Valle Trompia La Montagna e l'Industria (Trompia Valley Ecomuseum. The Mountains and Industry). The Museum also manages and interprets La Via del Ferro (the Iron Road) a series of sites in the region [...] history of mining and ironworking. Chief amongst them is the Museo Le Miniere di Pezzaze (the mining museum at Pezzaze) set in the Marzoli iron ore mine, opened in 1886 by the Fratelli Beretta company who

in geometrical patterns on the mountain side. There are displays relating to the industry in the archaeological museum at Fundao. [...] horizons of mineralisation, and specimens from the Panasqueira mine are displayed in geological museums throughout the world. The landscape is dominated by large-scale modern plant, but conservation work

Industry is very important in S. Joao da Madeira. And, more recently, industrial history as well. This combination makes the city and its surroundings an exciting destination for fans of industrial heritage [...] presentations of industrial history. The shoe production, for instance, is represented by a museum, an academy for shoe design and two successfully working enterprises. The hat museum is accompanied by [...] information about locations and guided tours. In the factory next door, visitors can experience a museum of contemporary art, as well as an exhibition on the history of the Oliva company and its outstanding

pushed the establishment of industry. Following the example of the Soviet Union, the government formulated five-year plans and founded state-owned companies in key industries, which characterised the Turkish [...] pillar of the Turkish automotive industry with the licensed manufacture of Renaults. However, the crisis-prone economy was unable to establish a strong foundation. Industrial areas emerged primarily in the [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF TURKEY Listen By the beginning of the 20th century, the once-glorious Ottoman Empire had deteriorated for all practical purposes into an agricultural colony of the West. Due

mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. On the ground floor, the Museum explains the manufacture of objects such as cotton reels and spindles for the textile industry, from collecting [...] The Turnery Museum at Torelló examines the process industrialization in wood-turning and horn-turning, during which traditional craft workshops were replaced by factories that made components for the Catalan [...] Catalan textile industry. It is sited in the former Vidal factory, built between 1888 and 1901. The three-storey building had a steam engine to power line-shafts and belt-drives to the lathes. Later, the

companies in the drilling and supply industry and service companies contributed to the economic strengthening of the Emsland. The Twist oil and natural gas museum provides information on the formation [...] drilling rigs and pipelines work. On the open-air site, large plant components from the oil and gas industry can be viewed.

Typorama is a museum of the printing industry managed by the Typorama Foundation established in 2011 and largely run by volunteers. The hand-setting of type is demonstrated, and the museum houses a collection [...] all of which are in working condition. Also in the town, and closely associated with its printing industry, is the Bischofszell paper mill which was established in the nineteenth century and worked until

newborn humans and other animals are fully illustrated. This is the most disturbing of all industrial museums but the messages it conveys are of supreme importance. [...] Ukraine on 26 April 1992 was the worst in the history of nuclear power generation. The objective of the museum is to help humanity to understand the implications of what happened. Multi-media presentations explain

be seen in the Kyiv Aviation Museum. Soon, the Ukraine was producing around half of all the USSR’s tanks and missiles, making the country a centre of the military-industrial complex. However, as in the [...] Economy of Ukraine World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Ukraine? Heinrich Böll Stiftung Kyiv: Soviet Economic Integration or Industrial Colonialism? Boryslaw. Oil Fields Ukraine was a union [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF UKRAINE Listen The individual regions of the Ukraine differed greatly in their development because natural resources are unevenly distributed and because for centuries the

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Listen The Industrial Revolution began in the fields of British farmers. Thanks to new cultivation methods, they were able to increase their yields in the [...] of iron and steel began and mechanisation was completed in the textile industry. But the faster the wheels of the new industries turned, the greater their hunger for raw materials became - and the more [...] transatlantic slave trade Historic UK: Timeline of the Industrial Revolution WIKIPEDIA: Economy of the United Kingdom World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in the United Kingdom? Telford. Coalbrookdale Ironworks

communications include four postal carriages of the early 19th century. The museum has several outstations which illustrate the industrial heritage of the region. [...] several sections, including the technology department which has displays illustrating the many industries of Upper Austria, including salt making, coal mining, textiles, and the manufacture of weapons

Located in the industrial city of Vassa, this is Finland’s largest private car museum. Owned by Vaasa Vintage Car Society, it opened in 1981 and moved to its present building in 2010. It explores the history

and has a complex political history. When part of the USSR it was a restricted area, but a local industrial combine was able to establish a wool manufacturing enterprise in the 1950s using wool from the [...] The enterprise closed in 1847 but was revived in 1992 by Tiiu and Jüri Valdma and their family. The museum, in a limestone building of 1841 that was originally the hay barn of Vaernla manor, displays a range

Thus marl and coal played a significant role in the industrial history of South Limburg. As early as 1917 the first and only underground mining museum in the Netherlands was set up in the Valkenburg colliery [...] underground cinema, or drinking a "Grottenbier" in an underground café? Then the Valkenburg Colliery Museum is just the place for you. Here visitors can experience their own underground world. The ground below [...] also take a trip back in time to the long forgotten geological periods in the underground fossil museum with exhibits dating back to the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. These include a real jaw-dropper;

The museum on the banks of the River Cailly at Notre-Dame-de-Bondville, west of Rouen, is located in a former ropeworks, a partially timber-framed building of 1822. The factory was re-equipped in 1880

renovations. Within the Villatehdas area, you can explore industrial architecture and learn more about Hyvinkää's industrial past. The Valvilla Wool Mill Museum, established over 40 years ago, is located in the [...] Finnish railway network made Hyvinkää an important railway junction, attracting both people and industries. Engineer Ossian Donner (1866-1957) founded the Hyvinkää wool spinning mill in 1892 and started [...] drew other factories to Hyvinkää, leaving lasting marks in the town. Today, traces of Hyvinkää’s industrial history are still present in the townscape. Several original factory buildings are still standing

The museum centre Konsti includes Varkaus History Museum and Varkaus Art Museum and, as a new addition, Children's Factory, which lets kids explore the industry through play. In Konsti visitors can find [...] story of Varkaus’ 200 year old industry all the way to the future. Industry in Varkaus started from a small iron mill in 1815. It grew and expanded to multibranch industrial centre and today it is known [...] services for visitors from restaurants to accommodation. Museum Centre Konsti is also a cultural multipurpose building that presents Varkaus industry, culture and art. Konsti has space for the entire community

The last working jute mill in Britain is now an exciting 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 [...] smell of oil and the noise of running machines, Verdant Works is a place where the power of the industrial past is made vividly present.

essentially a museum of the applied arts, but its collections are an illuminating resource for anyone concerned with the industrial history of Europe. It was founded, as the South Kensington Museum, in the year [...] 1856, and the museum became the first to provide a restaurant for its visitors the following year. In 1858 gas lighting enabled evening openings, giving access for working people. The museum has more than [...] Crystal Palace amongst the exhibits from the Habsburg Empire in 1851. Museums of this kind place the artefacts produced by industry in Europe in the context of the material cultures of civilisations from