dominated by coal mines, iron furnaces, and glassworks, where the outstanding monuments to the industrial past are four hydraulic lifts on the Canal du Centre, at Houdeng-Goegnies, Houdeng-Aimeries, B

only slate mine and as such, played an important part in the mining heritage of Cornwall. It was of course slate that roofed the industrial revolution and the finely laminated, dark blue slate from Carnglaze [...] Cornwall and further afield. Find out about the miners’ ingenuity and skills, and how slate roofed the Industrial Revolution. You will go on a self-guided underground tour to learn how the mine was worked, ending

his patent with important results for the textile industry worldwide. Cartwright was born in the east midlands of England, near Nottingham. He studied at Oxford University and became a clergyman in his home [...] of £10,000 by the British government in recognition of his achievements for industry. He retired to a farm in south-east England where he died aged 80. Although he proved that weaving by machine was possible [...] The Church of England clergyman, poet and inventor Edmond Cartwright started a revolution in the mechanisation of textile weaving. While his own machines were ineffective, other inventors developed his

Churnet, and the complex stands alongside the Caldon Canal, opened in 1777. Flints from other parts of England were delivered by canal boats, which also took ground flint powder to The Potteries. The complex [...] powder. The mills worked until 1963 and a trust for their preservation, now the Cheddleton Flint Mill Heritage Trust, was formed in 1967.

transfer to the Springfield Basin. The river Navigations opened up eastern England for the first time to the influence of the Industrial Revolution. For the first time, large shipments of coal and pig iron [...] This is a walk with a difference. For 14 miles you can follow this industrial age canalised river, meandering gracefully through quiet countryside. The Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation opened in 1797 [...] customers and markets for their goods. The same pattern of development is repeated elsewhere in eastern England, at Colchester, Ipswich, Norwich, Peterborough and Bedford where eighteenth century foundries developed

stretching over more than six square kilometres. This is what the future of industrial heritage looks like. In the Chemical Industry Estate in Marl, on the northern edge of the Ruhrgebiet, it is already part [...] relocation of chemical firms, thereby giving a fresh impulse to industry in the Ruhrgebiet. It’s working. Anyone who visits the Chemical Industry Estate in Marl will come away with a completely new idea of [...] connections and harbour, the nearby airport in Düsseldorf and of course power stations. For the chemical industry needs power more than anything else. This used to be delivered in the shape of coal from the local

ON THE HISTORY OF THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY Listen The emergence of the chemical industry was triggered by the mechanisation of English textile production in the second half of the 18th century. The output [...] bleaching powder available - practical for industrial use, but extremely harmful to health in production. Since its discovery in 1709, coke has been used in the iron industry for its high calorific value - and [...] also used. In the second half of the 19th century, during the "second industrial revolution", chemistry became the leading industrial sector alongside electrical engineering. One reason for this was that

Demidow dynasty of industrialists. From 1820 Yefim was chief mechanical engineer for the various industrial complexes in the area. Mirom, his son, was his apprentice and eventually his successor. In 1810 [...] Tagil region. From 1820 he built about 20 steam engines of various kinds. He spent some time in England in the 1820s, and on his return, in 1833-34, he and his son built the first Russian steam locomotive

centuries its people have been closely concerned with shipping but the unique feature of its industrial heritage is its role since classical times in cultivating the mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus and processing [...] (Mastic villages) lie in the southern part of the island. Research projects into the history of the industry took place in 2007-08, and in 2009 it was decided to build a museum on a site given by the Chios

In February 2014 a voluntary association was founded to save the factory as an important industrial heritage site, to open it to the public and to set up a small museum. [...] The Chiozza starch factory is a real unique first industrial revolution factory fully equipped with the original machinery. More than 30 old machines powered by a steam machine are preserved. The factory

sand until 1988. The copper industry of the Churnet Valley was once of great importance and the limestone quarries at Cauldon Low were some of the most productive in England. The preservation body, Churnet [...] The Churnet Valley Railway is a heritage line on part of the former North Staffordshire Railway that was opened in 1849 and lost its passenger services in 1965, although it remained open for freight trains [...] notable for its use of S160 type 2-8-0 locomotives which were built in the United States, sent to England in 1942-44 and used on railways in Britain until they were shipped to the Continent after the D-Day

mining landscape, with the objective of building upon the past, and using the monuments of past industry as opportunities for future development not as problems to be obliterated. It is based in the buildings [...] luge. La Chaine des Terrils organisations expeditions across the tips to study ecology and mining heritage, and coach tours of the mining landscape across a wider area are operated from the tourist office

Coldharbour Mill, 12 km east of Tiverton, is one of the outstanding monuments of the textile industry of the West of England. The elegant mill in the classical style was built in 1799 by the Quaker entrepreneur

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for export. The company Eni now produces salt for food production, road gritting and chemicals industries. Guided tours take visitors through the workshops, carpenters’ shop, laboratory and Art Nouveau [...] National Trust, with the aim of protecting and enhancing the Italian historical, artistic and landscape heritage. A 7-km journey by land-train passes between the mountains of salt and the salt lagoons colonised

Bunmahon, where there are displays illustrating the area’s geology and mining heritage. The principal monument of past industry is a Cornish engine house of the mid-nineteenth century, which was part of a

printed resources covers Cornish history, geography, industries, customs and highlights Cornwall’s mining heritage. It offers anyone interested in the industrial history of Cornwall an opportunity to study mining [...] buildings now contributes to the regeneration of the town which suffered from the loss of the mining industry.

In 1784, Henry Cort invented one of the most important iron-making processes of the Industrial Revolution. This was a new method of transforming cast iron into the more versatile and valuable material [...] making it possible to have much larger, integrated ironworks. Cort was born in Lancaster, northern England, in 1740 or 1741. By the age of around 16 he was working as a naval agent – someone who gave out

Coventry was the centre of motor manufacturing in England until the late twentieth century. The city’s principal occupations in 1800 were the making of ribbons, which generate a substantial trade in the [...] cycles and then, from the 1880s to motor cars. During and after the Second World War the engineering industry in Coventry also encompassed the manufacture of machine tools, tractors and aircraft. Several of [...] included many names that are now almost forgotten, making small numbers of cars almost on a cottage industry basis. The Museum of Transport opened in 1980 as a satellite building accommodating the growing

on a tour of Europe during which he studied cotton manufacturing in France, Germany and England. While in England he worked for a spell at Platt Brothers, Oldham near Manchester, then the world’s largest [...] Benigno Crespi was principally responsible for the building of Crespi d’Adda the most spectacular industrial community in Italy. The cotton mills at Crespi d’Adda, established by his father in 1878, were