The National Museum of Technology in Warsaw dates in its present form from 1955, although it has links with earlier collections. It is located in the Palace of Culture, the Soviet-style building that dominates

design of Peter Behrens. Offices are arranged around a large hall, and the spacious stair well is linked to the old main entrance to the site by an imposing bridge. The building is an outstanding example

ons of metal-working and every August a smithy day is held to honour blacksmiths. The museum has links with Phänomenta, an interactive science and technology centre which is located nearby.

built waterworks, railways and telegraph systems all over Europe, but throughout his life he retained links with his native town, the resort of Broadstairs on the coast of Kent, and financed and built its gas

remaining factories from this time now houses the museum. Spinning engines, looms and steam engines are linked with interactive presentations to show how industrialisation affected the lives of the people in

one-year training course in weaving, and a hub for the development of new products. The centre maintains links with similar textile projects across Europe, and with the textile departments of several universities

Bremen, Munich and Karlsruhe. An unusual feature of the network in Timisoara was its use from 1916 as a link carrying freight wagons between 10 factories and the railway system at Timisoara Est station. The

What is the link between a certain Lady Victoria, black diamonds and a place called Newtongrange in Scotland? It’s simple? For Lady Victoria is the name of the old colliery in Newtongrange and when the

Valley Railway operates almost throughout the year with a huge variety of historic steam trains. It links mediaeval Bridgnorth –in the shadow of Pisa-like leaning tower – with Kidderminster, a former car

reserve extended its transport and storage facilities to the municipality of Ormaiztegi, where it was linked to the Madrid-Irún railway line, looking for profitability in European markets. This rich iron ore

also steam boat passenger services. The canal’s museum is at Ørje, alongside the three locks that link the lakes Rødenessjøen and Øymarksjøen. It is located in a former pulp mill, Ørje Brug, and includes

businesses and private individuals. Each one of them tells a true personal story that is closely linked to the identity of those who have made footwear their actual way of life. The museum and its current

markets with the aim of promoting a productive, prosperous society, reached its zenith. Related Links ERIH Link List WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Sweden World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Sweden Ski [...] to Malmo in the south and Gothenburg in the west opened in 1864. By the start of the 20th century links had been constructed to the north, including the ore railway from Luleå to Narvik in Norway, which

the dependence on foreign capital, before Black Friday 1929 triggered a new crisis. Related Links ERIH Link List WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Poland World Atlas: The biggest industries in Poland? Chorzow. Königshütte [...] the city developed into a major industrial centre. This was further driven by the railways that linked Warsaw first with Vienna and then with St Petersburg and Moscow. The most important factor, however

between 1723 and 1743 under the management of Jan Gottfried Borlach, provides access for visitors, and links a succession of chambers created by the extraction of salt. There are several underground churches

The museum at Ballenberg lies 6 km east of the town of Brienz with which it is linked by a regular bus service. It is a typical open air museum following the pattern set by Artur Hazelius at Skansen, Stockholm

quantities in the 1830s. Deventer, on the River Ijssel was once a member of the Hanseatic League, and has links through the Hansesteden with other Dutch Hanseatic cities, Kampen, Doesburg, Hasselt, Hatten, Kampen

mining around Hrastnik in the Sava region of central Slovenia began in 1804 and was stimulated by a link to the Austrian Südbahn (southern railway) in 1849. Glass making in Hrastnik began in 1860 but the

1864. It stands on the Eider river with which the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, or Kiel Canal, the ship way linking the North Sea with the Baltic, built between 1910 and 1913, follows a parallel course. The completion

A dozen neatly arranged copper cauldrons, linked to tall distillation columns by curved pipes, the whole framed by smoothly jointed brick walls and permeated by the characteristic mix of sweet and dry