most surprising: in terms of per-capita income, the Danes were just as prosperous before the Industrial Revolution! Perhaps this also explains Denmark’s extraordinary development path. As far back as the early [...] for 60% of Danish exports, and industrial products only 10%. Processing of agricultural products led to the establishment of a specialised agricultural technology industry. The breakthrough was the invention [...] not until the 1950s that more Danes were employed in industry than in agriculture. Related Links ERIH Link List 1001 Stories of Denmark: Theme "Industry. From Mills to Computers" WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Denmark

following the start of the Industrial Revolution. There is a great deal of European common ground waiting to be discovered. For a start, the living and working conditions of the industrial age were more or less [...] states that formed the heart of the Industrial Revolution, is to implement the master plan developed during ERIH I. The underlying objectives are to protect Europe’s industrial heritage sites and use their [...] (now dissolved) German Society for Industrial Culture (DGfI) proposed to implement a pan-European network that would help to support the establishment of industrial heritage as a tourism brand. The network

The Industrial Revolution History Discussion: The History of the Industrial Revolution La diffusion de la révolution industrielle en Europe continentale European History Online: Industrialization as an [...] THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN EUROPE Listen The industrial revolution in Europe didn't happen overnight but only spread over the continent very gradually. One of the triggers was the unusually high growth [...] cater for the growing railway industry. Slowly but surely the focus of employment began to switch from the agrarian sector to industrial production. The industrial revolution in Europe had very different

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Gudbrandsdalen. Industrial buildings include a corn mill, a dyehouse and fulling mill, a tannery, a brass foundry and a posting station, but Maihaugen is chiefly important to the historian of industry for what [...] cooking facilities in many farmsteads illustrate vividly how goods were manufactured before the Industrial Revolution.

material culture of peasant society in a prosperous agricultural region in the period before the Industrial Revolution. The museum project was launched in 1960 and the site was opened to the public in the early

In his youth James Walker worked with some of the outstanding civil engineers of the Industrial Revolution. In his adult years worked on many important projects in Britain and in Germany, and his contributions

and eighteenth centuries, displays illustrating the mechanisation of production during the Industrial Revolution, and some of the machines used to make paper in the vicinity in the twentieth century. There

French Revolution, but was acquired by the municipality for cultural purposes in 1985. The first paper mill in the region was established on the bank of the River Warchenne in 1726, and the industry was developed [...] the Papeterie du Pont de Warche, was established in 1909 to manufacture high-grade stationery. The industry has since declined but one mill remains in production, although in foreign ownership. The museum

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 was extensively used in South East [...] 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 at

There was heavy industry in Elsecar from the early 18th century. Elsecar and the adjacent villages were packed with collieries, ironworks, and other industrial concerns, playing a critical role in the [...] last worked in 1928. The Newcomen Beam Engine is one of the most important inventions of the industrial revolution and a breakthrough in the creation of mechanical power from steam. [...] cut into the site in the 1790s and a railway with vast sidings created in the 1840s. Elsecar’s industrial story continued long into the 20th century. The buildings which are now Elsecar Heritage Centre

technology prior to the Industrial Revolution: the Bologna-type silk-throwing machines. Not a single of them has survived, but a half-size reconstruction in the Museum of Industrial Heritage keeps them i [...] well as a tortellini machine or products made by the cutting-edge packaging industry. The range of exhibits shows that industrial heritage in Bologna is well-rooted in history while still being relevant today [...] further floors, the museum captures the panorama of a city which has successfully advanced several industries, including the manufacture of clothing and machine tools. Of particular importance was the engineering

Ukraine before the Communist revolution, the other showing life in Soviet times, illustrating both the changes that came with the modernisation of agriculture and industry, and the cherishing of old traditions

its textiles when ancient privileges relating to manufacturing were abolished during the French Revolution in 1791. At the same time new technologies for textile production were introduced through which [...] prospered, its population increasing from 8,000 in 1800 to 124,000 a century later. The textile industry specialised in furnishing fabrics and continued to prosper, exporting to most parts of the world [...] in 2008, and gained its present name in 2009. Its displays illustrate every aspect of the textile industry in Flanders. Workshop sessions in which visitors can gain experience in weaving are a special feature

a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992, and has undergone extensive restoration since the ‘velvet revolution’. The area has a long tradition of mining, of gold and silver, but particularly of graphite, the [...] new companies, and by the 1870s about a thousand people were mining graphite in the region. The industry contracted in the 20th century, and the last mine to work in the area is now a museum, where visitors

facilities provide a lively image of the regional iron industry. The blast furnace at Grossouvre also fell victim to the decline of the industry towards the end of the 19th century. However you can still [...] classic example of the early development of industrial transport routes. Grossouvre is an ideal starting and information point for all these different industrial monuments. [...] Loire Val d'Abois were once known all over the world. The area manufactured weapons for the French Revolution, pipelines for Madrid and Paris, and components for building the Eiffel Tower. Visitors can find

associated with L T C Rolt (1910-74), biographer of several of the leading engineers of the Industrial Revolution period, whose voyage of 1939 described in the book Narrow Boat began at Banbury, and who was

with ore and coal mining trought the Roman Empire, Spanish domination and the era of the Industrial Revolution until the last mines closed at the end of the 20th century. Former mines and their remains

existing society is the history of class struggles’ have shaped the vocabulary of many accounts of industrial development, even those written by writers with philosophies directly opposed to Marxism. Karl [...] particularly through the First International, formed in 1864. His analysis of economic history, that industrial capitalism had created a proletariat, whose members could only live by selling their labour, has [...] historians would still regarded it as stimulating, but his vision of a future in which communist revolution would be followed by the withering away of the state has materialised neither in those states that

technological and economic changes in 18th century Britain that have been described as the Industrial Revolution. He was born in Greenock, the son of James Watt (1698-1782), a prosperous merchant and prominent [...] making the Boulton & Watt Collection in Birmingham one of the most important archives of the Industrial Revolution. Watt retained throughout his life interests in geology, mineralogy and chemistry, and was