Union annexed the country in 1921 and started an extensive programme of industrialization. The use of water power began in 1927 with the hydroelectric plant in Avchala, near Tbilisi; the plant on the Rioni

attached, by admitting steam at atmospheric pressure into a cylinder. The steam was then condensed by a water jet within the cylinder, allowing the piston to be forced into the cylinder by atmospheric pressure

the laboratory in Noordoostpolder was an open-air laboratory. Because of its low-lying situation, water could be guided into and out of small-scale models without pumps. The aim of the studies may either [...] Mosses, plants and trees are slowly covering over the sites that were once so valuable. You can hear water flow everywhere and special plants and animals can be found along the river banks. In fall, there

ironworks where they were forged. The raw materials to produce iron were: iron ore, charcoal and river water. On the other hand, in the mills flour was obtained by grinding wheat and corn grain. Visitors can [...] bellows that keep the fire going, powered by hydraulic energy. The highly original and effective water tanks at different heights also stand out.

Niš municipality with their demands. The municipality committed to build a channel providing enough water to operate the watermill. Siemens Schuckert Werke from Vienna submitted the best electrical works

route 'Tesla Ways'. The idea of professor Đorđe Stanojević (1858-1921) regarding the Đetinja River water utilisation was accepted by the management of the Užice Weaving Mill Joint Stock Company. Stanojević

mountains. CFF Vişeu de Sus runs the narrow gauge railways for forestry in the Valea Vaserului (Vaser or water valley). The line was constructed in 1933 and has been operating ever since. It goes from a yard on

entrepreneurs introduced miners and technology from Cornwall, especially Cornish steam engines to pump water and raise minerals. The distinctive beam-engine houses and chimneys are still part of the landscape

The Salt Museumis located in an old salt works within the Natural Park of Salinas, where salt water has been evaporated for centuries to make salt. The small museum that shows with original equipment and

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is one of Britain’s most atmospheric industrial heritage sites. It was a water-powered works for making steel scythes – essential tools for cutting crops by hand. The site was used

in the late nineteenth century. New mills were built in rural areas with good supplies of wood and water to make pulp. The Vääräkosken factory was founded in 1898 by Gustaf A. Lönnqvist. The handsome buildings

as the stables, llagar (cider mill), or the carpentry workshop, or the fountain with its cattle watering area and washbasin. The school takes us back to the past, bringing to mind the ambience and rec

Processing Plant' Quarry. Kryvyi Rih (UA) Stará Čistírna Old Waste Water Treatment Plant. Prague (CZ) Stará Čistírna Old Waste Water Treatment Plant. Prague (CZ) Völklingen Ironworks WHS. Völklingen (D) [...] Sunlight (GB) 'South Mining and Processing Plant' Quarry. Kryvyi Rih (UA) Stará Čistírna Old Waste Water Treatment Plant. Prague (CZ) Völklingen Iron Works World Heritage Site. Völklingen (D) Walcownia Zink

demolished in 1980, was situated. From the historic site only the dam remained, behind which the water collected at high tide and again flowed out at low tide and thus drove the mill. The mill building

cod-fishing fleet of Spain and one of the biggest in Europe. With the decline of cod fishing in Canadian waters and the general crisis in the fishing sector in the last quarter of the 20th century the fishing

industrial warehouses … Another part of this landscape is the network of canals once used to supply the water needed for the generation of energy and used in the manufacturing process in the Ajuria and Urigoitia

of trains. In 1902, the Schöneweide railway depot was built, including administrative buildings, a water tower and a roundhouse for the service of the frequently used steam locomotives. The plant was in

y transferred it to the US Air Force. From 1948 to 49, the Soviet Union cut West Berlin off from water and land supply routes, forcing the Allies to implement an airlift to bridge the supply bottlenecks

are situated in the middle of a green idyll on the shore of Teufelssee lake. Before the central water supply was introduced in 1852, Berlin was served by around 5600 wells. In 1872, the Grunewald waterworks [...] former waterworks can also be explored on guided tours. Eventually the infocenter WASSERLEBEN provides water experiments for everyone.

you can visit the only reasonably complete water-powered beam pumping machine in Britain: Wanlockhead Beam Engine, which was built in about 1870 to pump water from the Straitsteps lead mine beneath it.