Enjoy sound and light shows as they show how the area developed to become the home of the Industrial Revolution and see how Singing Cavern, the awe inspiring cavern became a fitting backdrop for early music

tell the story of mortars from antiquity to the present day, with particular emphasis on the Industrial Revolution in the Basque country and the first cement factories in the region. The development of Portland [...] explained, and visitors have access through digital technology to an array of data relating to the industry. One section details the history of the Rezola company and its workers, and another analyses the

how raw wool and cotton was transformed into yarn. See the Revolution gallery telling the story of Lancashire´s role in the industrial revolution. Watch the mighty waterwheel powering the stocks as they [...] they thump the wet woollen cloth. Discover famous inventors and international textile industry treasures including an Arkwright Water Frame from the 1780’s. A changing programme of exhibitions, events and

The Chiozza starch factory is a real unique first industrial revolution factory fully equipped with the original machinery. More than 30 old machines powered by a steam machine are preserved. The factory [...] bankrupt. In February 2014 a voluntary association was founded to save the factory as an important industrial heritage site, to open it to the public and to set up a small museum.

Thole, who migrated from Bremen to marry the master of the mill, portrays the period of the Industrial Revolution. Henrich Storch, describes the difficulties faced by a small-scale clothmaster at the time

was not strictly devoted to mining and its first temporary exhibition was devoted to the Cuban revolution. In 1966 the museum moved to its current location in a building of 1920 that was the first headquarters [...] headquarters of the SAR Patrosani company, and concentrated on interpreting the coal mining industry of the Jiu valley that dates from the 1840s. There are displays of miners’ tools, machines used underground

imported from India. Samuel Unwin (1712-99) and Jedediah Strutt (1726-97), leading figures in Industrial Revolution in East Midlands, were both concerned with development of frames. By the 1830s some frames [...] Framework knitting was a characteristic industry of the English East Midlands. The knitting frame was invented in 1589 by the Rev William Lee of Calverton. It was at first a simple machine, but was steadily [...] up in workshops, but it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that the hosiery industry became factory-based. By 1851 there were knitters in 220 parishes in the East Midlands, with 4,000

important part in the mining heritage of Cornwall. It was of course slate that roofed the industrial revolution and the finely laminated, dark blue slate from Carnglaze was extensively used in South East [...] further afield. Find out about the miners’ ingenuity and skills, and how slate roofed the Industrial Revolution. You will go on a self-guided underground tour to learn how the mine was worked, ending at

its textiles when ancient privileges relating to manufacturing were abolished during the French Revolution in 1791. At the same time new technologies for textile production were introduced through which [...] prospered, its population increasing from 8,000 in 1800 to 124,000 a century later. The textile industry specialised in furnishing fabrics and continued to prosper, exporting to most parts of the world [...] in 2008, and gained its present name in 2009. Its displays illustrate every aspect of the textile industry in Flanders. Workshop sessions in which visitors can gain experience in weaving are a special feature

Gudbrandsdalen. Industrial buildings include a corn mill, a dyehouse and fulling mill, a tannery, a brass foundry and a posting station, but Maihaugen is chiefly important to the historian of industry for what [...] cooking facilities in many farmsteads illustrate vividly how goods were manufactured before the Industrial Revolution.

material culture of peasant society in a prosperous agricultural region in the period before the Industrial Revolution. The museum project was launched in 1960 and the site was opened to the public in the early

than you imagined. See, from the enormous range of Garrett products over 200 years, how the Industrial revolution forever changed the way people lived. Hear too, the other side of the social story and of

The river Navigations opened up eastern England for the first time to the influence of the Industrial Revolution. For the first time, large shipments of coal and pig iron penetrated inland to Heybridge and [...] This is a walk with a difference. For 14 miles you can follow this industrial age canalised river, meandering gracefully through quiet countryside. The Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation opened in 1797

associated with L T C Rolt (1910-74), biographer of several of the leading engineers of the Industrial Revolution period, whose voyage of 1939 described in the book Narrow Boat began at Banbury, and who was

The local borough of Tameside takes its name from the River Tame which helped power the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago. During this period a complex network of canals was constructed which linked [...] used to live. Discover what life was like down the mines, or on the farm. Explore local crafts and industries and marvel at our historic machines. You can even drive a model canal boat, or play schoolyard [...] Tameside with the rest of the country, bringing in supplies of raw material to feed the developing industries and thriving local towns. The area of Portland Basin is at the hub of Tameside´s canal network

a heartland of the Agrarian Revolution in the 18th century. Arrive when the Smithy or the huge engines are at work and you can be transported back to East Anglia´s industrial past. East Anglian firms such

Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95) was a leading figure in Britain’s Industrial Revolution, a successful entrepreneur in the ceramics industry, a promoter of canals, and a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham

Outside the gates of Seraing, which is dominated by the huge industrial plant belonging the Cockerill-Sambre concern, lies a truly splendid building on the right bank of the River Maas: the former Cistercian [...] grow orchards and raise cattle, as well as caring for their souls. As a consequence of the French Revolution the monastery was closed down in 1796 and its life came to an abrupt end. Only in 1826 did new

in 2003 and tells the story of the birth of mining in the Ruhr valley at the start of the industrial revolution. [...] Witten was one of the first deep-pit mines on the Ruhr – a good enough reason for the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture to erect one of its eight sites here. Visitors can walk along a 100 metre gallery and thereby [...] which shows the primitive way coal was mined immediately after the Second World War when the whole industry had to start again from nothing and there was a drastic demand for coal. By that time the Nightingale

Originally a limestone quarry, iron ore was discovered here in the 19th century and led to the industrial revolution in Kleinenbremen. From 1883 until the 1960s, iron ore was mined here in several shifts, first