Ignaz Schustala (Czech: Ignác Šustala) began a small business making horse-drawn buggies and carriages in the mid-19th century at Kopřivnice (now in the eastern Czech Republic). His workshops expanded

printed designs. He bought fabric from weavers in Augsburg and had it printed in Hamburg and then hand-coloured in Augsburg. In 1759 he opened his own printing works but continued to put out the work of painting [...] and from a growing textile sector in Augsburg that benefitted from his skilled workforce. Schüle handed management to his sons in 1792 and then returned ten years later but the business closed in 1808

districts. The Foundation addresses this development with research on the industrial history of Silesia, hands-on protection of the tangible industrial heritage and education on the economic factors underlying

guides demonstrate the intricate processes of weaving. The mill contains 26 restored jacquard handlooms. Exhibitions and room sets illustrate life in Paradise Mill in the 1930s.

Imperialism (Deyna Parvanova) L'histoire de la traite négrière en France Den danske kolonisering og slavehandel (Fatalink. J. Jensen, M. Arrouas) Den økonomiske udvikling, kolonier og landboreformer (danmar [...] Remembrance - A Guide to Sites, Museums and Memory (Unesco) Mitteleuropa und der transatlantische Sklavenhandel: eine lange Geschichte (WerkstattGeschichte; Klaus Weber) Zucker - zentrales Leitprodukt der

the coal mines. Also at this time, the Habsburgs developed Trieste into a major trading port. As handling volumes increased, more and more merchants settled there and established an exchange, insurance

solid briquettes are all part of the exciting guided tour. The Museum of Printing Arts , on the other hand, revives several centuries of printing and media history with some 100 fully functional machines.

The life of Margarete Steiff is an heroic story of triumph over handicaps. It is also a significant part of the industrial history of Europe, of the growing tendency in the closing years of the 19th century

For more than 30 years she ran and developed the ironworks and the ironworks village with a firm hand and sometimes questionable methods, earning her the nickname 'Her Grace'. In addition to the ironworks

in the city and explore how it relates to us and our lives today. The camp adopts an explicitly hands-on approach. In addition to the exciting insights into industrial heritage, the agenda includes work

The Katowice College of Individual Interdisciplinary Studies lets students individually design their curriculum. To do this, they choose one (or more) leading study programme, which can be expanded to

professionals and volunteers - people who experienced life in these industrial communities at first hand. Effective methods are needed to transfer and share knowledge with new staff and volunteers entering

mass-produced, industry as a whole expanded only slowly. Many high-value goods were still made by hand, as there was no shortage of labour; entrepreneurs could pay low wages, particularly as many people

was born into a farming family in Ayrshire, south-west Scotland. As a boy he was apprenticed to a hand-loom weaver at Kilbarchan, west of Glasgow. This introduced him to methods of bleaching and the limits [...] mainly by one of his partners, Charles Macintosh (1766-1843). The powder was far safer to make and handle than the previous chlorine, which was processed with sulphuric acid. With four partners, in 1799

spindles were used to imitate the hands of the spinning women. Experienced workers were necessary to operate the machines, but nonetheless productivity was much higher than by hand spinning. Since the threads [...] the weavers no longer had to push the shuttles through the warp threads over the spinning frame by hand. Nevertheless Kay’s invention remained an isolated step forward on the long road to power looms. The [...] take a bundle of extremely thin short fibres, the so-called shear wool, and pull out the fibres by hand, before stretching and twisting them. In the 1730s two inventors by the name of Lewis Paul and John

on the west coast of Sardinia runs right through an old metalliferous vein. Visitors experience first-hand how metal ores were mined here around the middle of the 19th century and marvel at the blossom-white

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS Listen Industrialisation came late: on the one hand, because the Netherlands had only small deposits of the key raw materials coal and iron ore, and on the [...] sugar cane, coffee and indigo, which were easy to market. The indigenous population, on the other hand, suffered from hunger because this left less land for rice fields. Around the middle of the 19th century

institution in France, created in the year 864 as a royal mint. Coins were made initially with hand-stamps, then from the 17th century with screw presses. The present ‘Hôtel des Monnaies’ was constructed

advertising prints, toy theatre sheets, product labels and wallpaper. Today the workshop still uses hand-operated presses to produce original images. Historical equipment for stencilling, printing and paper-cutting

the method of sowing seeds at suitable depth and in equally spaced rows instead of throwing them by hand over the soil. His seed-drill machine had several parallel plough blades with boxes and spouts to