great popularity nowadays. The Theme Route "Brewing of Beer" has been developed together with the ERIH Anchor Point Pilsner Urquell Brewery and Museum in Pilsen (CZ). Related Links Franz G. Meussdoerffer:

ON THE HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION Listen The final phase of industrialisation witnessed a revolution in communications: circulation figures for newspapers reached hitherto unknown heights, people were a

ON THE HISTORY OF WORKERS' HOUSING Listen Industrialisation opened up unimagined possibilities for architects and engineers with the continuously improved materials of iron and concrete. At the same t

ON THE HISTORY OF WAR WEAPONS PRODUCTION Listen The origins of gun powder can be traced to China. There the oldest recipe for mixing charcoal, salpeter and sulphur dates from the year 1044. In the Far

ON THE HISTORY OF IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTION Listen Two steps are needed to make iron and steel – the key materials of the industrial era - from iron ore. First, the ore has to be smelted in the blast

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES Listen It was only around the end of the 19th century, with the second wave of industrialisation, that exposed mining tips and soot-ridden workshops, endles

ON THE HISTORY OF MINING Listen Coal from European and American collieries was the universal fuel during the Industrial Revolution. Nonetheless technical inventions in mining played a relatively insig

ON THE HISTORY OF PAPERMAKING Listen It all began in China. Comparatively early, the Chinese empire started to build up a large bureaucracy. This was probably why in the 2nd century BC the process of

ON THE HISTORY OF PRODUCTION AND MANUFACTURING Listen Domestic handmade textile production was typical for the pre-industrial age. The father sat at the loom and the women of the family were responsib

ON THE HISTORY OF SALT EXTRACTION Listen For thousands of years salt has been a very important material: it was not just used for seasoning, but was needed much more as a preservative. Before ice boxe

ON THE HISTORY OF THE SERVICE AND LEISURE INDUSTRY Listen The Industrial Revolution resulted in more and more smokestacks shooting out of the ground and a huge increase in factories, coal mines and st

ON THE HISTORY OF TEXTILES PRODUCTION Listen The eighteenth century cotton mills in Britain with their rows of spinning frames and thousands of rattling bobbins heralded the coming of the Industrial R

ON THE HISTORY OF TRANSPORT Listen During the early years of the Industrial Revolution there was a radical change in transportation. The arrival of pounding steamships and steam locomotives gave a hug

ON THE HISTORY OF WATER MANAGEMENT Listen No European country has as close a relationship to water than the Netherlands. For this reason water construction technology developed here first. At the star

state-of-the-art production methods. This European theme route was developed in cooperation with the ERIH Anchor Point Hendrichs Drop Forge LVR Industrial Museum in Solingen (D). Sites of the Theme Route

INDUSTRIAL STORIES TO LISTEN TO

Downloads ERIH Industrial Heritage Barometer 2022/23 - Questions and results ERIH Industrial Heritage Barometer 2020/21 - Questions and results ERIH Industrial Heritage Barometer 2019 - Results ERIH Industrial [...] "ERIH INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE BAROMETER" ERIH'S SURVEY OF EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE SITES Listen Since 2018, ERIH, in cooperation with the Statistics and Surveys Department of the Regionalverband Ruhr, [...] submitted to ERIH and made available for response in a Europe-wide online survey. The data and responses from the survey, summarised in the 'ERIH Industrial Heritage Barometer', help ERIH to engage with

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF LIECHTENSTEIN Listen For centuries, this tiny Alpine country, founded in 1719, was considered the poor relation of Europe: situated in the Rhine valley, with Austria to th

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF ALBANIA Listen Albania’s economic history is characterised by a fundamental contradiction: the country has valuable natural resources, fertile soil and enormous hydroelect

to a flourishing service economy without the intermediate step of industrialisation. Related Links ERIH Link List WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Andorra World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Andorra? Encamp