dipped a screen the size of a sheet of paper into the vat and with it pulled out a portion of pulp. He handed the screen over to a colleague who in an elegant rolling motion dumped the dripping mat of fibres [...] in the 12th century. After the muslim emirates north of the Mediterranean Sea fell into christian hands again, european scholars, magistrates and merchants quickly discovered the advantages of the new writing [...] Nicolas Louis Robert in 1798. He constructed a long flexible screen of wire mesh which, powered by a hand crank, rotated continuously, not unlike a conveyor belt. While it rotated, pulp was shovelled onto

beginnings until the twentieth century. There are replicas of the equipment used to make paper by hand between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, displays illustrating the mechanisation of production

Territorial System of 26 museums that explain industrialization in Catalonia. The site is furnished with hand-tools, charcoal, metal and equipment. The Ethnographic Museum, a few streets away in Plaça de l’Abat

former railway station preserves a steam locomotive and carriages and includes displays about mining, hand-knitting and rural crafts.

photographs, art works and stamps and medals. The 1880 Mauser-Milovanović rifle and the 1989 Vasić hand grenade are among the weaponry interpreted. A library is also available.

was nationalized in 1945, then became privately owned again in 1993. It still produces high-quality, hand-made glasswares. Tours of the factory take visitors to see the glass-blowers at work in the furnace

lace was particularly important in Nottingham, where the time-consuming process of making lace by hand was mechanised from 1808. The region’s lace-making machines were exported around the world.

equipment is located here, whereby visitors can observe and try stone cutting, working at the forge, using hand querns and the like.

course of industrialization. Until then, paper workers had used pulped rags to make “laid paper” by hand. Rags, along with waste products from cotton and rope factories, were the only fibrous raw materials

new channel - whether it's videos of major attractions such as Extraschicht in the Ruhr District, hands-on highlights like the Czech Dolní Vítkovice industrial complex or first impressions of the industrial

addition to the working machinery, displays in the mill include artefacts relating to milling, such as hand-powered grindstones (quern stones). Typically, mills like New Abbey ground oats, barley, wheat and

of the vast Dinorwig slate quarry. Here you can see slate-splitting demonstrations by traditional hand-craftsmen revealing the skills and artistry of generations of quarry workers. Much of the site still

century. It was opened in 1996 and its collection now totals more than 10,000 objects. It includes a hand-operated press by Hopkinson & Cope of London, Linotype machines, Monotype casters and Heidelberg printing

Louis Robert (1761-1820) in 1798, but there are also displays of equipment used for making paper by hand. Workshops are held which enable visitors to make paper for themselves. Other parts of Malmundarium

models and tickets, and the stationmaster’s office has been reconstructed. Visitors can enjoy rides in hand-propelled carts once used for the maintenance of the permanent way. The museum also includes a small

Formula-1 racing cars, an Apple-1 computer from 1976 and the cloned sheep ‘Dolly’. Visitors enjoy hands-on activities such as launching a hot-air balloon, designing their own bicycle and generating electricity

These codes were first broken in 1941 by the experienced cryptographer John Tiltman (1894-1982) using hand methods, but they subsequently became more complex and increased calculating power was needed to decipher

talents of the colliers who knew how to exploit gravity to their own ends. This museum is all about hands-on activities. All the guides are ex-miners who can give you good solid information about the everyday

and raw materials used for brewing, as well as historic vehicles used for delivering beer, including hand carts and an ice sleigh. There are also collections of posters, bottles and glasses, and a particular

first traces the history of paper and then shows a range of printing equipment. These include early hand-carved wooden printing blocks, Gutenberg’s movable type, and Voirin’s 1823 cylinder press, which is