sector and in 1917 founded the Compañía Siderúrgica del Mediterráneo, which after the Spanish Civil War became part of its competitor, Altos Hornos de Vizcaya. In 1971 Altos Hornos del Mediterráneo was [...] working-class neighbourhoods remain. Of the old factory, the General Workshop Warehouse, Blast Furnace No. 2 and the Spare Parts Warehouse have been preserved, which will become the future Museum of Industrial

and the oil was pumped out. The city experienced a rapid boom, which continued until the First World War, when the production facilities were severely damaged. Oil is still being produced in the city today [...] century, the Carpathian foothills of Galicia developed into the third largest petroleum region in the world. Several centuries earlier, manually dug pits had already been laid out to collect the seeping so-called

factory manufactured the brass cases and filled them with the gunpowder propellant. Production during World War Two rose to 97 million cartridges a year. Afterwards, the factory diversified into metal components

1878 when it came under the rule of the Habsburgs, and subsequently belonged to Yugoslavia until the wars of the 1990s. The name ‘Mostar’ means bridge keepers, and there was a wooden bridge across the Neretva [...] re-opened in 2004. The 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

g machinery, numerous photographs, historical drawings as well as technical plans are presented on 2,500 square metres. Mementos and recorded memories of the former metalworkers tell of their hard work [...] from it. An 8-minute film presents the history and the role of iron and steel in building today's world.

of the early twentieth century, the Wurstelprater, was destroyed in the last days of the Second World War but such was its significance to the city that the Ferris Wheel was restored in 1946, and featured [...] merry-go-rounds erected, and gingerbread bakers (Lebzelter) set up their stalls. It was the site of the World Exhibitions of 1873 and 1897. The symbol of the Prater is a 60 m diameter Ferris Wheel (Reisenrad)

production in Finland. The extraction and use of peat for energy production began in Aitoneva during World War II. Finland was lacking sources of energy due to the difficulties in coal import. Aitoneva was selected

location of the only factory that still makes the traditional Wensleydale cheese.Since the Second World War when cheesemakers were obliged to produce a government standard Cheddar-like cheese, it has been

of Portsmouth Harbour. The centrepiece of the museum is HMS Alliance , a submarine of the Second World War. During a 45-minute tour visitors can see the ship’s periscopes, its torpedo store, its galley, [...] a controlled atmosphere. The museum also displays X24, a 16 m long mini submarine of the Second World War, and an even smaller German mini-submarine of the same period, which had a crew of just one man

service, Deutsche Luftschiffahrts – the world’s first airline – began in 1910 and by 1914 it had carried nearly 40,000 people on 1,600 flights. In the First World War around 100 Zeppelins were used in aerial [...] the American Civil War. In Minnesota he met the German-born balloonist John Steiner and made an aerial ascent in a tethered hot-air balloon. Having taking part in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the [...] Zeppelin developed and manufactured the most successful rigid airships of all time and created the world’s first air-transportation business. His original ‘Zeppelin’ was launched in 1900 and his airships

Britain, Russia, Spain and Italy. During the First World War, his factories supplied cartridges, shells and canned meat and coffee. With the end of the war, the factory contracted from 30,000 to only 400 [...] ist in several sectors during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By the time of the First World War he employed some 30,000 people, principally in manufacturing armaments. Weiss came from a family

substantial landowner but both he and his companies suffered severe losses in the years after the First World War, and he did not live to see the subsequent prosperity of Czech industry. [...] banking, having been a founder of the Wiener Bankverein (Vienna union of banks) in 1869. He made a world tour in 1898 to promote the Empire’s exports and was subsequently knighted. He was also a substantial

especially after racial laws were passed in 1937. He was imprisoned at the outbreak of the Second World War and many of his industrial interests were confiscated. In 1942, the Altonescu regime freed him in [...] death in absentia for supporting an unsuccessful anti-fascist coup in 1944. He returned after the war but the new communist regime revoked his citizenship and his Romanian properties were nationalised

Second World War when, as a Jew, his share in the rights for Chanel No 5, reverted to her, but he regained them after 1945. She had a ten-year affair with the British aristocrat Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke [...] with her workforce, who were all summarily dismissed on the outbreak of war in 1939 when she decided to close her shops. During the war she collaborated with the Nazi occupiers, who made use of her many c

Juhlke was one of many millions of East Europeans whose lives were changed utterly by the Second World War. He was born at Tuchola near Bydgoszcz in Poland, the son of a farmer, and expected to train as

bridges. He was the only son of George Stephenson and his wife Frances, who died when Robert was aged 2. After elementary school, he attended Bruce’s Academy in Newcastle upon Tyne and was made a member of [...] 1829. He continued to make innovations at Robert Stephenson & Company, which was recognised as the world’s first locomotive works and grew to employ 1,500 people. After helping his father with the civil

drug antipyrin from 1895 and the sugar substitute saccharine from 1899. During and after the First World War, it advanced its international business due to the isolation of German manufacturers who were its [...] Basel in Switzerland is one of the world’s centres of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Edouard Sandoz created one of the leading companies in the sector in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

machine-tools to manufacture it. The typewriter went into production in 1911. During the First World War, the company made aeronautic equipment. After it, Olivetti brought out the M20 typewriter and opened [...] century for high-quality typewriters and calculating machines found in offices and homes around the world. Camillo Olivetti was an electrical engineer in northern Italy who began the company and designed [...] remained a leader in 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

cotton and linen and later printing wallpaper. As early as 1764 his factory covered an area of nearly 2 ha and ten years later it employed 900 people. He developed mechanization and integrated production [...] brother Frédéric with a canvas-printing factory, also in Corbeil. The disruption of the Napoleonic Wars caused a decline in business and the invasion by Russian and Prussian forces in 1815 resulted in the [...] the factory closing. Oberkampf died soon afterwards. His son Émile restarted it after the war. The printing works continued until 1843 and the spinning and weaving factory until 1894. The name Oberkampf

cultural causes. The Weifert businesses were inherited by his nephew and nationalised after the Second World War. He is commemorated by his portrait on Serbian banknotes.