one of the world’s principal suppliers of marine diesel engines. The shipbuilding and engineering sections of Burmeister & Wain were split into two separate companies in 1971, and in 1980 the latter became [...] DieselHouse which opened in 2006 in the former machine hall of the H C Ørsted power station in Copenhagen’s southern docklands. Its centrepiece is an engine built by Burmeister & Wain for the power station in

continuing to produce high grade paper for artists. The museum of papermaking, established in the 1980s, shows techniques used in an industry that has been important in the area for several centuries, and

support of the RWTH Aachen, the Rescheid local history society was able to build a visitor mine in the 1980s. Here guides take guests on a vivid tour of the underground galleries and tell them all about the

51,000 tonnes of crude steel. By 1967, eight more furnaces of the same type had been built, and in 1980 two more modern electric furnaces went into operation. By now, the Brandenburg steel and rolling mill [...] brings to life the history of the Brennabor works, Germany's largest automobile factory in the early 1920s. Theatre performances, concerts, events and performances of all kinds take place in the events hall

of the Second World War, but the complex was principally used for storage in the early and mid-1950s. Towards the end of the decade preparations began for transforming the complex into a secure seat of [...] by the West Midlands Committee of 100 peace group. It was upgraded as Regional Government HQ 92 in 1980 and there were provisions for it to be staffed by 325 people. In 1993 after the end of the Cold War

the turnaround after 1980. He implemented a painful austerity policy with wage and price controls, cut subsidies and reduced state influence in the economy. Over the course of the 1980s, exports increased [...] increased substantially and the country’s notorious trade deficit was brought somewhat under control. High foreign investments, the customs union agreed to in 1996 and the accession negotiations with the European [...] example Sümerbank, shares in the steel works in Ereğli, and the Tüpraş Group, which controls Turkey’s oil refineries. The food industry contributes significantly to foreign trade with grain, fruit and vegetable

then a freelance writer and consultant. He was active in the annual conferences in Bath in the 1960s which were influential in the growth of industrial archaeology in Great Britain and also attracted important [...] d his concern that historical studies should extend up to the present, and Where we used to work (1980), which demonstrated the value of oral history. He was also responsible for two major reference works [...] showed impatience with the writings of academic historians, and was more interested in telling people’s stories. His role was well summed-up by a friend who regarded him as ‘an ideas man not a meticulous

As the threat of European war increased in the 1930s the British government embarked in 1936 on a scheme to build ‘shadow factories’ for which government provided capital for existing companies to build [...] Beaverbrook (1879-1964) became Minister of Aircraft Production on the formation of Winston Churchill’s government in May 1940 control of CBAF passed to Vickers Armstrong Ltd. By the conclusion of the Second [...] in 1953, and became part of British Motor Holdings from 1966, as did the Jaguar Car Company. From 1980 the Castle Bromwich plant was used solely to make bodies for Jaguar. After further changes in the

the tilt hammer. Osemund is ideally suited to making wire. Not for nothing was this one of the region’s major industrial activities. Demand for iron and steel began to rise at the start of the 19th century [...] only shut down in 1972. The Lüdenscheid Municipal Museum has maintained an outside site here since 1980. The fully-operative equipment and machines provide a living picture of blacksmiths’ techniques from

London’s complex transport system has its origins in horse bus services established in the early 19th century, and the slightly later ‘cut-and-cover’ underground railways, the first of which, the Metropolitan [...] the underground system are now listed buildings. The London Transport Museum has been located since 1980 in a former flower market building of 1871 in Covent Garden. It was re-opened after extensive ref [...] condensing equipment for working on sub-surface lines, but spent its last working years until the 1930s on the rural parts of the Metropolitan Railway system. The collection also includes a horse tram imported

lion’s share of Bulgaria’s exports. As the country could not compete with western economies, plants and products were never modernised. Though the availability of consumer goods improved in the 1960s and [...] and 1970s, there was no money available for the maintenance of housing or transportation infrastructure. Corrections in economic policy failed to materially improve matters. In the 1980s, the government [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF BULGARIA Listen Dramatic political upheavals defined Bulgaria’s economic history and for many years impeted the path to industrialisation. Although a textile factory was founded

of the Adria Magistral followed in the 1960s and 1970s, extending from Koper, Slovenia, along the entire Croatian coast to Dubrovnik. Although President Tito’s break with Stalin in 1948 triggered an economic [...] economic blockade by the Eastern Block, by the mid-1960s industry was posting spectacular growth rates and coming to dominate Yugoslavia’s economy. Concurrently, the government attempted to compensate for [...] linking it to the Austrian trading port of Trieste – and that city immediately appropriated Rijeka’s trade. Hungary connected Rijeka to a line to Budapest as compensation, but no one was interested in

powerful English economy drew even closer. The country enjoyed a brief upswing sparked by Napoleon’s Continental Blockade, before being plunged into the worst disaster in its history: the Great Famine [...] culminating in the construction of the luxury liner “Titanic” in the early 20 th century. Belfast’s population quadrupled. Dublin, also a centre of trade thanks to its port, developed into an administrative [...] continued to stagnate with modest food-products industries; successful major companies such as Jacob’s Biscuits and the famous Guinness Brewery in Dublin were the exceptions. The opening of the Royal Canal

the largest European producers of aluminium foil. By the 1930s, industry was already generating most of Armenia's economic output. From the 1950s onwards, electrical engineering became the speciality of Armenian [...] Mergelian. The innovative computer families "Rasdan-2" and "Nairi" were developed there in the 1960s. The Museum of Science and Technology in Yerevan documents these pioneering achievements. In order to [...] the Armenian economy, the Soviet leadership had a number of new thermal power plants built in the 1960s, but they still relied on oil and gas imported from abroad. As Lake Sevan was increasingly losing water

Initially slate wagons travelled to the coast by gravity and were hauled back by horses, but the line’s first steam locomotive was delivered in 1863, enabling the introduction of passenger services two years [...] articulated locomotives of the kind patented by Robert Fairlie ((1831-85) in 1869, and introducing Britain’s first bogie passenger coaches in 1872. The railway declined in the mid-twentieth century. Passenger [...] Railway Society was formed in 1961 after disagreements within the Festiniog Railway Society, and in 1980 it began to work trains on what is now the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway. From 1988 the Welsh Highland

confiscated from the company in Germany and the Habsburg Empire. It provided competition in the 1920s and 30s, although the two firms reached a working agreement in 1925. An important innovation was the in [...] The Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens’ operated some of Europe’s most celebrated trains. On 5 June 1883 there was a demonstration of what was to become the Orient Express [...] from Paris to Lisbon, where connections were made with transatlantic steamers, in 1887. Nagelmackers’s ambition to convey India-bound travellers from England from the Channel coat to Brindisi was finally

from coking plants flowed until the 1920s. The highly toxic chemical was also found in the Ruhr, which was used to produce drinking water. It was not until the 1950s that researchers in Western Europe gradually [...] compounds in the air and is one of the causes of forest dieback, which became highly visible in the 1980s, particularly in the mountainous regions of Poland, Czechoslovakia and the two German states. Sulphur [...] health hazards in industrial regions for centuries. With the onset of industrialisation in the 1750s, increasingly dense clouds of pollutants gathered over Britain's rapidly growing cities. Smoke from

was the first to acquire various patents for cooking wood fibres in a sulphite dissolution in the 1860s. The sulphite process yields almost pure cellulose fibres, a raw material of high quality which makes [...] the inside out. Therefore, almost all the books, newspapers and documents printed between 1840 and 1980 are not aging resistant. They need an expensive de-acidification and restoration if they are to be