played by the women in the community. And then it is time to go underground: complete with helmet, miners lamp, and a local collier. After that a simulated ride through a tunnel on a modern pit railway

Russian steam locomotive which was set to work on a railway with cast-iron track that served a copper mine. He received little encouragement from his employers and the locomotive was eventually replaced by

the wage, children for even less. Children were in demand mainly for their size and agility: in the mines they had to pull coal-laden wagons through the lowest tunnels on all fours, in the spinning mills [...] from noise, dirt and pollutants: Tiny cotton flakes in the air in spinning mills, mineral dusts in mines, toxic chemicals in ironworks and chemical plants. Workplace accidents were common. Many men were [...] called for industrial action. In the 1810s, handloom weavers in Glasgow, spinners in Manchester and miners in Northumberland went on strike. In 1824 they succeeded in overturning the ban on coalitions, which

colliery museum erected on the site is devoted to the accident. Surrounding this section are the miners’ changing rooms, washrooms and pithead equipment that give visitors a good idea of the region whose

becoming a close confidant of the Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck (1815-98). He had interests in coal mines and ironworks in Silesia, in the mining and smelting of zinc at Lipine, and in the Niederrheinhütte

airfield was built here, followed by the first international aircraft exhibition one year later. Other prominent examples are the Zeppelin Museum in Neu-Isenburg and Frankfurt Airport. As an artistic highlight

for the exhibition area in circular thickener I of the "Portal of Industrial Heritage" at Zollverein Mine World Heritage Site in Essen. It complements the multimedia information offered by the "Portal of

area by high walls. The mining company not only dictated everyday working conditions but also the miners´ private lives in the neighbouring housing settlement. Since 1983 visitors have been allowed inside

to practical problems in transforming designs into products for mass markets. He worked for many prominent international companies including Fiat, IBM and Philips, and in the course of his career made some

Sir Titus Salt was one of the most eminent entrepreneurs in Victorian Britain, and left a lasting legacy of buildings. He was born at Morley, Yorkshire, the son of a woolstapler who traded in Bradford

Borken, guided tours below and above ground provide an insight into the everyday working lives of miners and power station workers who began using Hesse's largest lignite deposit to generate electrical

course, the two Anchor Points of the Regional Route, the Asturian Railway Museum in Gijón and the Sotón Mine in San Martín del Rey. The latter welcomes visitors with an exciting tour leading to 556 metres below

Industrial Culture (bzi). This year, the Forum will be hybrid: face-to-face at the HTW Berlin, Campus Wilhelminenhof, and as a digital conference via Zoom. Thanks to the support of ERIH, online guests will be able

could be exploited: in 1712, the ironmonger Thomas Newcomen installed the first steam engine in a mine to pump water out of the shafts. This made it possible to reach coal at greater depths – but at the [...] g company. While Newcomen's original steam engine was used for a long time to raise water in the mines - an example of the not always rapid course of industrialisation - Watt's perfected model also conquered [...] is evidence of investment from the proceeds of the slave trade in the nearby northern English coal mines and ironworks, as well as in railway construction and the Welsh slate industry. There were also profits

year Samuelson erected two blast furnaces at South Bank, Middlesborough, and subsequently acquired mines that supplied the furnaces with ore and coal. He sold the South Banks work in 1863 and immediately [...] where by 1870 there were 8 furnaces. In the 1870s he acquired collieries at Hedleyhope and iron ore mines at Spawood. Samuelson contributed substantially to the development of blast furnace technology, by

museum of classical artworks housed in one of the papermill buildings, as marked by the tracks of the mine carts here preserved. The industrial history of the site is illustrated in the didactic panels along

Eduardo Aznar founded the Compañía Minera de Sierra Menera. A 204 km railway line was built to link the mines of Ojos Negros, Teruel, with the new port infrastructures for exporting iron ore to other European

hall-shaped church with adjacent cemetery hosting cenotaphs of the city’s toy traders. Numerous prominent buildings and mansions evoke Sonneberg’s international status as town of toys. Sonneberg is still

Europe, known particularly in its early years for its large gas engines. He acquired coal and iron ore mines to supply the company’s furnaces, and when the First World War broke out had interests in the Netherlands

spent a spell working in Moravia during the Napolonic Wars and on his return to Silesia established mines for zinc ore at Brzozowice and zinc smelters at Nowa Helena and Szarlej, after which, in 1823 he built