ed ideas a high-quality piece of fabric is woven. Embroidery shows how fabrics were finished with hand embroidery machines.

mining, agriculture and the making of charcoal. The agricultural traditions of the region are shown by hand tools and utensils that were part of daily life, and a threshing machine. Many other objects given

Ottoman rule in the 15th century. As in the other Balkan nations, the scarce arable land fell into the hands of Turkish landowners, who did not concern themselves with modernising agriculture. The successful

as mills and oil presses. After the Second World War, the country once again passed into Russian hands and the government in Moscow launched a comprehensive industrialisation campaign. However, unlike [...] for textiles and electrical appliances were built in the larger cities. Heavy industry, on the other hand, was concentrated east of the Dniester: since 1954, a hydroelectric power plant has been generating

reconverted into a museum which presents the relationship between art and industry as shown by the hand of Eduardo Chillida, one of the most famous sculptors in the Basque Country.

was introduced into Belgian coalmines and, after the First World War, into the pits along the Ruhr. Hand labour underground, which had continued almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, was gradually coming

Gatow was established in 1934 as part of the secret rearmament programme of the Third Reich. It was handed to the British occupying forces after the allied occupation in 1945, and about a third of the flights

visitors are able to see the production of paper by a Fourdrinier-type machine, and by traditional hand methods, which they can try for themselves. Old clothing, which usually contains synthetic fibres

et vous aurez bonne table et bon gîte’. (‘Your journey will be enchanting. You will be led by the hand. Your yearning for the picturesque will be satisfied and you will have good cuisine and good lodging

colliers as closely as if they were one of them. The washrooms, the lamp room, the changing rooms, worn hand rails and well-trodden steps look just as they did on 2nd June 1994 when the pit closed for ever.

used for this purposes in 1985. The museum includes examples of the equipment used to make paper by hand and some early paper-making machines.

Europe at the time remained in operation until 1996. Initially, production was carried out mainly by hand until part of the operation was electrified in the 1950s. Since 2005, cultural and creative industries

history of the Mazetti company in particular. There are demonstrations showing how chocolate is made by hand, and ample opportunities to taste Mazetti products.

samples by hand. There is also a display about workers and entrepreneurs in the industry. In the other building, the museum preserves the wool carding and spinning equipment of the factory, a wooden hand loom

soon the business began an early form of serial production in Luxemburg. In Saarland, on the other hand, Nicolas Villeroy had developed a new process for printing complicated decorations on porcelain. At [...] steelmaking. Most of the coke for the blast furnaces in Luxemburg came from Germany. On the other hand the iron and steel produced here was sent to the Ruhrgebiet for further processing. The dependency

expertise on how to monitor, survey and control the London water supply network. They can also try their hand at steering a robot through pipes too small for human workers in order to find and eliminate any

Derwent. Their business became highly successful, producing far more silk threat than the English hand spinners. It employed around 300 people. John Lombe died only a year later. He may have been poisoned

into a huge complex that employed nearly 2500 workers, many of them women. Its first products were hand-made cigars, but it subsequently made cigarettes, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco and tobacco

expanded with new buildings soon afterwards. It still specialises in making high-quality porcelain by hand. The museum is in a building for firing after decoration and shows the electric ‘muffle’ kiln used

established. But the agricultural sector was underdeveloped and great tracts of land remained in the hands of large landowners even after the formal abolition of serfdom in 1861. The rural population suffered