principal source of tin from classical times and an important source of copper during the Industrial Revolution period, and the ores of many other metals have been extracted from its mines. The two steam [...] two are managed as one site. The adjacent Industrial Discovery Centre, with a captivating audio-visual presentation, provides an overview of Cornwall’s industrial heritage. There are few better places in [...] road between Camborne and Redruth, are amongst the most impressive monuments of the Cornish mining industry. The East Pool mine was worked for copper from the early eighteenth century until 1784, and was

and astonishingly sharp picture of what life was once like in Wales and how the motor of industrial revolution has made Wales what it is today. [...] state-of-the-art computer technology. This is all about Wales and how to recount its unique and complex industrial history in as exciting and up-to-date manner as possible. And it works! For the main actors are [...] your life put at risk as a collier, and shortly afterwards bask in the fairy-tale wealth of an industrial tycoon. In this way you are able to endure noise and filth, experience repression and working-class

in the 1960s. It connects two canals built in the Central Lowlands of Scotland during the Industrial Revolution period, the 56 km Forth & Clyde canal built between 1768 and 1790 that linked the River Clyde

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

Netherlands. The trail incorporates 43 towns and villages, and 340 large pit heaps from the Industrial Revolution period or later, as well as numerous smaller tips. The trail incorporates the tracks that [...] 60 nationalities who have worked in the mines along its route. It incorporates several conserved industrial heritage sites including the Route du Feu at Blegny, the Bois du Cazier Mine at Marcinelle, le

world’s first Industrial nation. And as water continued to cascade through the centuries, the industries continued to flow through time, and Aberdulais established its place as an industrial centre. Discover [...] an ice age landscape and breath-taking waterfalls, to shape the industries that changed the world….Aberdulais – An Industrial Revolution, powered by water since 1584!

the museum holds. They show the incredible progress in technology and innovation during the Industrial Revolution, and encapsulate the lives of the people who lived and worked here including the story of [...] century. Despite closure in 1919 the nearby furnaces remains still exist as one of the most important industrial archaeological sites in Britain. Merthyr Tydfil’s important position as an Iron Town during the

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

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

in Essex and during the Industrial Revolution people across the county utilised a mixture of wells and surface streams to get the water they needed for domestic and industrial uses. Water companies were [...] preservation of machinery, equipment and tools which have shaped our industrial and social environments. The Industrial Revolution has never really stopped, its pace has quickened over the years. The Museum [...] presenting working examples of machinery, equipment and tools which have been used to develop the industrial and social conditions we enjoy today. The second aim of the Museum is to provide any opportunity

The Industrial Revolution transformed popular entertainment. Nothing displays this more clearly than the development of mechanical rides at fairs from the mid-nineteenth century. Fairground rides across

Barrow-in-Furness was one of the few wholly new towns that grew up during Britain’s Industrial Revolution. In the early nineteenth century it was a hamlet in the parish of Dalton with a tiny population [...] and co-owner of the Furness Railway. The museum, which originated in 1907, tells the story of the industrial and urban growth of Barrow, and of the Furness Railway, but also looks back to prehistory, and

phenomenon. But the difficulty of moving goods was a real problem in the late 1700s in the Midlands’industrial heartland. The great canal engineer, James Brindley, was commisioned in 1769 to build a canal between [...] with the Galton Bridge - the largest single span iron bridge the world had seen. The transport revolution can be seen in microcosm in the valley - at one point the Titford canal is carried over Telford´s [...] aircraft fly en route to Birmingham International airport. The Galton Valley forms part of the 'Revolution Walk' (looked after by the Canal & River Trust) which can be explored on foot, by bicycle or by

concerned with the industrial history of Europe. It was founded, as the South Kensington Museum, in the year after the Great Exhibition of 1851 with a mission to improve the quality of the industrial arts – designs [...] ocean liners and cameras, and ceramics from the principal designers and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution period and after. The ceramics collection totals 75,000 artefacts. The glass collection includes [...] includes many pieces made in Venice from the fifteenth century, as well as examples from the Industrial Revolution period. The large collection of decorative iron and steel includes cast-iron firebacks of

A particularly fine example of the asynchrony of the industrial revolution can be seen with the King Frederick Augustus Tower, built in 1854 on Löbau Hill. It is the only surviving cast-iron lookout tower

salt depicted by Georgius Agricola that were widely practiced in northern Europe before the Industrial Revolution. The island museum service has a seaweed farm, with a mill constructed from timbers of wrecked

agricultural revolution. Reminders of appalling rural poverty jostle uneasily alongside steam and diesel engines. Working class poverty was a major problem in the Norfolk of the Industrial Revolution. Protectionist [...] The vast ´House of Industry´ at Gressenhall was built in 1775 to provide a home and work to the rural poor who were otherwise unable to obtain work. In 1834, it became known as the Mitford and Launditch [...] new Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 was designed to force more people to seek work. The House of Industry was reconstructed as a Union Workhouse to ensure that conditions inside were a detriment to those

The French Revolution was followed by the Industrial Revolution: in 1790 three merchants from Strasbourg arrived at Sarreguemines in Lorraine in order to exploit water, fire and earth for their own purposes

particularly on Catherton Common. Two coke-fuelled blast furnaces were built during the Industrial Revolution period on the shoulders of the hill at Cornbrook and Knowbury, and a forge at Knowbury worked [...] km east of Ludlow, provides vivid evidence of an eighteenth century squatting community in which industry developed on a considerable scale. On the Clee Hills, which rise to almost 550 m above sea level

son of a Wuppertal textile manufacturer, visited Manchester during the early years of the industrial revolution he was shocked by the working conditions in the factories. In 1848 he and Karl Marx published [...] published the “Communist Manifesto” and very soon they were known all over the world as the pioneers of revolution. Shortly before, in 1837, Friedrich Engels senior had opened the Ermen & Engels cotton mill in [...] grounds to accuse him of a greed for profits. Nonetheless his firm was to become the scene of a revolution. In this case: electricity. For very soon Engelskirchen and the surrounding locality was making