the M20 typewriter and opened retail branches to promote them against the competition. Part of the assurance of quality he offered was that all the component parts were made in Olivetti’s own workshops to [...] typewriters, calculators and 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. [...] northern Italy who began the company and designed its early products. He was born in 1868 in Ivrea, north of Turin, into a middle-class Jewish family. He graduated in electrical engineering at Turin in 1891 and

beets contained the same sugar as sugar cane. Breeding increased the sugar content until the industrial production of sugar from beet was developed around 1800. The first beet sugar factory was built in 1802 [...] generator and transmission shafts. The reality of GDR industry is documented in the canteen and infirmary. The Oldisleben Sugar Factory Cultural Heritage Foundation took over the technical monument from [...] Poland). From 1835, the German Customs Union created favourable economic conditions for the cultivation of sugar beet and the beet sugar industry. By 1900, more than 600 beet sugar factories had been established

bridge and the area of the old city in which it stands were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the following year. The Museum of the Old Bridge occupies the 5-storey Tara Tower, one of the towers that [...] as arsenals for the storage of weapons and ammunition. The museum consists of three sections devoted to the archaeology of the surrounding area, the restoration project of 2002-04, and the urban landscape [...] The ancient city of Mostar is the capital of Hercegovina. It was part of the Ottoman Empire between 1468 until 1878 when it came under the rule of the Habsburgs, and subsequently belonged to Yugoslavia

NSHIPS OF THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INDUSTRIALISATION Listen Europe's industrial development has always been characterised by cross-border trade in raw materials and commodities, the transfer of knowledge [...] result of labour migration. The exhibition "Linking Europe" focuses on these international links and demonstrates the connections between local stories and the wider picture of European industrial development [...] illustrate an interesting European linkage– for example, technology of the German company Siemens in the converter factory of the Streetcar Museum in Porto. All participants in “Linking Europe” can also be viewed

criteria more closely to key aspects of industrial heritage, such as conservation and conversion. How can sites steeped in industrial culture become the cradle of a new age of economic activity and production [...] suggestions, an appreciation of the work of pioneers and the establishment of new networks in the region and beyond. As always, the event is hosted by the Berlin Centre for Industrial Culture (bzi). This year [...] the support of ERIH, online guests will be able to benefit from an English interpretation of lectures and discussions. The excursion on Saturday will take participants to industrial heritage sites in Berlin

typical pattern of everyday life in the north German Wool Combing and Worsted Spinning Mill in Delmenhorst. The huge industrial site covering more than 25 hectares of land was one of the largest of its type in [...] the Nordwolle Factory Museum housed in the ornamented red brick building of the old turbine house which used to be the central power station of the works. In the adjacent row of sheds visitors can follow [...] follow the process of turning raw wool into yarn – some of this on working machines – and learn about the history of the many women and men who more or less fell unprepared into the maw of this immense factory

attending an industrial archaeology conference in Bath, and, as a result of contacts made there, was a delegate in 1973 at the First International Congress on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (FICCIM) [...] appointed to the first professorial chair in industrial heritage research at the University of Uppsala where she established the Nordic/Baltic Industrial Heritage Platform, an international programme for training [...] who came to be fascinated by the industrial heritage and greatly influenced its development not only in Sweden but across most of Europe. She studied at the University of Uppsala, with which she maintained

The museum of technology in Croatia was established as a result of the efforts of Dr Bonz Tezak, a professor at Zagreb University, and was formally constituted in 1954, although there was an earlier museum [...] departments. Those dealing with industrial heritage include transportation, whose collections include motor cars and railway locomotives, geology, which covers mining of coal and minerals and oil extraction [...] museum of trades and crafts in the city which had ceased to function. It occupies timber buildings originally erected for the celebrated trade fair held at Zagreb, which moved to a new site in 1956. There

the Spéos School of Photography, which has been awarded the "Maisons des Illustres" label by the French Ministry of Culture, under the patronage of the Académie des Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts [...] taken by the inventor of photography himself: Nicéphore Niépce. Among other things, the House houses the oldest photographic workshop and laboratory in existence today. This world heritage is preserved by the

"ERIH - European Route of Industrial Heritage" on YouTube. And of course there are also links to the channels of related European industrial heritage organisations and networks. ERIH on YouTube [...] particularly rich in industrial history and makes it available on video? And where can I find trailers of industrial UNESCO World Heritage Sites or regional events focusing on industrial heritage? Answers are [...] What is ERIH and what are the objectives of this tourist network connecting industrial monuments all over Europe? Are there industrial heritage sites on YouTube to find out what to expect as a visitor

to the board of the sponsoring association, Geowelt Fortuna e. V., "whose commitment and passion made Fortuna Mine what it is today." The mine's outstanding value for industrial heritage is enhanced by [...] the cultural heritage for the region and for the whole of Hesse in the long term. On our way to becoming an information and documentation centre for Hesse's iron industry, however, a lot of money will still [...] Highlights of the site such as the ride in the pit cage, the mine train and numerous original machines provide visitors and students with exciting impressions and experiences. A large part of this is due

masse – in the form of hundreds of slate quarries. In the 19th century the slate tiles on almost every roof in Britain had been mined and cut by Welshmen.The National Slate Museum in Llanberis gives visitors [...] hand-craftsmen revealing the skills and artistry of generations of quarry workers. Much of the site still looks like it did in the 19th century. The gigantic waterwheel that once drove all the machinery is still [...] visitors a vivid impression of their masterly skills. It is located in the Victorian workshops of the vast Dinorwig slate quarry. Here you can see slate-splitting demonstrations by traditional hand-craftsmen

functional and social linkages of the relict slate industrial landscape. The property was internationally significant not only for the export of slates, but also for the export of technology and skilled workers [...] In its statement the World Heritage Committee notes, among other things: „The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales illustrates the transformation that industrial slate quarrying and mining brought about [...] large-scale industrial processes undertaken by landowners and capital investors, which reshaped the agricultural landscape into an industrial centre for slate production during the Industrial Revolution

Leonardo da Vinci Museum is located in a former convent, and covers many aspects of the history of science and technology, apart from the industrial history of Milan. It includes a reconstruction of a 17th century [...] Milan is the industrial and commercial capital of Italy, and for centuries has been one of the most important manufacturing centres in Europe, celebrated for textiles, motor cars, electrical engineer and [...] century foundry, a substantial collection of locomotives, including a replica of the Bayard, made in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the first steam locomotive to work in Italy, and an early electric locomotive

Automuseum in central Germany is one of the most comprehensive collections of cars in the world. It incorporates more than 50 brands and 150 cars across a span of more than 130 years, from rare prototypes [...] spaces for changing exhibitions. The main building was part of the workshops of the boiler manufacturer Omnical and displays introduce local industrial history. A curving ramp is a centrepiece to display competition [...] and everyday vehicles. The collection was created by the industrial entrepreneur Dr Friedhelm Loh and opened to the public in 2023. The museum is a university campus for courses in car design and conservation

south-west of Ukraine, about 100 km from the borders of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. This small railway museum among the ridges of the Carpathian mountains aims to save surviving elements of the T [...] Transcarpathia railway heritage. The museum consists of a single train with an operating steam locomotive and ten cars. The exhibits tell the story of the development of narrow-gauge railways in the region [...] rescued. Around the museum is the open-air village museum, which preserves over 20 buildings, among them a forge house of the 1930s, a carpenter’s workshop, a house filled with examples of traditional weaving

The city of Naoussa was called the Manchester of the Balkans in the second half of the 19th century as the first city of northern Greece to industrialise. Its cotton spinning and weaving mills sold products [...] products across the Ottoman Empire and beyond. The Industrial Heritage Centre is housed in a former woollen factory built in 1907. Under the name ERIA it produced fabric for army uniforms until 1933. The [...] and the boiler room and the 36-m chimney survive. The exhibition History Threads presents the history of the city's textile industry. Spinning and weaving machines are displayed alongside social material

quantities at the beginning of the 20th century are nowhere near as high as they were at that time. The Oil and Gas Industry Museum keeps alive the memory of the heyday of oil production. Various models [...] process of oil production. On display are production instruments and industrial equipment as well as examples of products and raw materials, household items, a paraffin primus stove and collections of paraffin [...] dramatically with the invention of the paraffin lamp. More than 4,000 shafts were dug in the area around Borysƚaw alone, 70 km southwest of Lviv (Lviv) in what is now Ukraine. Industrial production began around

impressive industrial buildings have a water-power canal between them. The chain shop is 90m long. A museum displays large-scale models, images and original artefacts to explain the site, the needs of the navy

This brick warehouse is one of the prestigious museums in the Ironbridge World Heritage site. It was built in 1840 by the Coalbrookdale company to store iron products ready for shipment down the River [...] public showpiece for the iron company in the Gothic Revival style. The museum is increasingly affected by floods and a scale model of the Severn Gorge has been removed for safekeeping. Following conservation [...] naturally navigable river was a vital trade route, connecting the Shropshire coalfield to the Atlantic port of Bristol and the national canal system. Iron goods were carried from the ironworks to the warehouse