lies in the fact that it unites many different traditions within a single idea. The Regional Routes link landscapes and sites which have left their mark on European industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet

Montagne (Altenberg) near Aachen. During the first decade of the eighteenth century he developed links with Shropshire. He established a copper smelter and a brass works in Coalbrookdale and in 1708 leased

horse-powered factory, although it may not have operated until 1772. From 1770 he developed financial links with Jedediah Strutt (1726-97) and Samuel Need. On 1 August 1771 he leased premises at Cromford, where [...] Cromford. They were also in France and Bohemia before 1790. Arkwright was involved with the canal that linked Cromford to the inland waterways network, and was well-acquainted with intellectuals of the Industrial

career began in 1790 when he was appointed surveyor to the proposed Kennet and Avon Canal, which was to link London with Bristol by a new waterway some 90 km long. Numerous canal projects followed, including

responsible for a network of waterways that became the arteries of Britain’s industrial regions and linked its principal navigable rivers – the Severn, the Trent, the Mersey and the Thames. Brindley was from

General from 1862 for 20 years. In 1845 he was asked to undertake studies for the proposed canal to link the Mediterranean and the Red Sea through Suez and came to the crucial conclusion that the two seas

well into the 20th century. The most celebrated was Das Kapital, published in 1867. He maintained links with revolutionaries in many countries, particularly through the First International, formed in 1864

the purpose. He built a new commercial harbour at Gutuevsky Island in St Petersburg and a railway to link his factories to the docks. Connected to this, he began a major project for the 30-km Morskoy ship

by rail. He was born in Liège to a wealthy family who had interests in railways and banking, and links to the Belgian royal house. As a young man he travelled in the United States and was impressed with

Dudley, in 1712. He had regularly purchased iron from forges in the nearby Stour Valley, and had other links with the West Midlands through his Baptist faith. There is a working replica of the engine in the

harbours in Scotland, and was largely responsible for the engineering of the Caledonian Canal, which linked the east and west coasts of Scotland. In 1808-10 he paid two visits to Sweden to give advice on the [...] Canal. He was engineer from 1815 to the Holyhead Road Commission, and greatly improved the principal link between London and Dublin, which included numerous bridges, among them the innovatory suspension bridge

United States and China, and had outlets in 37 countries by 2009. He designed for films, and had links with pop music through Eric Clapton (b 1945) and through designing costumes for Lady Gaga. He also [...] United States and China, and had outlets in 37 countries by 2009. He designed for films, and had links with pop music through Eric Clapton (b 1945) and through designing costumes for Lady Gaga. He also

pioneer George Stephenson. In 1834 he was appointed as the engineer of the Ludwig Railway for 6 km to link the important commercial centres of Nuremberg and Fürth in Bavaria. Completed the following year,

In 1833 he became involved in the project for what came to be called the Great Western Railway, linking Bristol with London, and from an office in London assisted the passage of the legislation authorising

museum at the latter. William Wilkinson met his brother at Namur in 1782. John Wilkinson had many links with the continental Europe, and supplied steam engine cylinders and cast-iron pipes for the Paris

opened in stages from 1827 to 1832. Eventually, it extended for 129 km from České Budějovice to Linz, linking the rivers Vltava and Danube, and climbed 540 m. It was the first long-distance railway in Austria

including lines laid in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean by the Italian government from 1887, and the link between Spain and the Balearic Islands laid in 1888. In 1896 he opened a purpose-built plant at La

Europe as the inspiration behind the system of fast trains that showed the potential of railways for linking together the continent’s principal cities. Den Hollander was a mechanical engineer who gave many [...] Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy, and later of Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain. There were also formal links with the Austrian and Danish systems. The first TEE trains were diesel multiple units built in Amsterdam [...] for international rail travel and the network of fast, comfortable, high-capacity trains that now links European cities has grown from he seeds he planted in the 1950s.

to examine railways in the United States. On his return he began to plan the Sudbahn, the route linking Vienna to Graz and Ljubljana (Leibach) and ultimately to Trieste, the Empire’s principal port. He

and one of the founders of the National Gallery of Ireland. A bridge in Belfast completed in 1995 linking the railways to the north with the line south towards the Irish Republic was named after him, and