Johnson company in 1910. The three 16.8 m high charcoal-fuelled blast furnaces are preserved in the condition in which they were rebuilt between 1910 and 1916, together with the ropeway system which fed them

The original buildings date back to 1728 but over the years changes in ownership and economic conditions made improvements and extensions unavoidable. Despite all attempts at modernisation the works were

controversy over the treatment of the walls and eventually a small part was left in its original condition. It was closed again between 2007 and 2010 for a complete renewal of its track and signalling, and

the workers, the back-breaking work which they had to endure, and their poverty-stricken living conditions are also strongly featured. Whereas the exhibition indoors explains the work and social background

works was in an uninhabited area close to supplies of iron ore. He built a village with good living conditions to attract a workforce, including gardens, free firewood and free medicine. He also established

his workforce and developing talented individuals. His company was also known for good working conditions, including free medical care. His wife Hilda Simonsson, whom he married in 1878, took a close interest

Frederick Simmons bought the right to make the Phoenix and to use the Daimler name in Great Britain, on condition that Gottlieb Daimler returned to the company. Struggles with board members continued until Daimler`s

the 1960s. Expert guides take visitors below ground, where they can get a vivid idea of working conditions and also appreciate how paving stone was quarried. There is a special surprise at the end of the

tools and a replica of a simple wooden quarryman´s hut tell of the hard lives and arduous working conditions endured by the men, women, and children working in the quarries. Groups who have booked in advance

noise of the chopping machines and jackhammers. It is now possible for visitors to experience these conditions at first hand in the "Röhrigschacht" demonstration mine that was opened in 1991 in the suburb of

and Germany. After the European revolutions of 1848 he decided to look towards the more stable conditions in Russia and Poland where his uncle had a factory at Ozorków, 20 kilometres from Łodz. When his

who set out here, in the context of "Manchester capitalism", his vision for more decent working conditions. The factory gates closed in 1968. Thanks to major redevelopment, however, New Lanark is once again

as a pioneer of early industrial mass production. Some of the museums focus on the hard working conditions of glassblowers, smelters, glass cutters, gilders and painters. In addition, basket weavers and

the gallery of the glass centre visitors can look down on glass blowers at work in hellishly hot conditions. After this they have the opportunity to purchase Christmas tree globes, glass tops or other objects

works have been in progress, aiming first at rescuing the monument and securing the emergency condition of building structures, and then, the premises have been brought back to life and occasionally used

of the smallest of its kind in the Lausitz at first produced briquettes under the most primitive conditions. To give but one example: the first time a lighting dynamo was used was in 1896. This generated

built his magnificent palace along the lines of the palace of Versailles? Where and under what conditions did the people live who built and equipped the feudal palace? A tour of the museum grounds becomes

proved the importance of sewage disposal and clean water supply in his 1842 Report on The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain . At the time, Hamburg extracted water from the same

detail, based on his reading in social history, and on scientific observation of working and living conditions in industrial areas. For the industrial historian the two most important of more than 30 novels

August 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo. He was imprisoned, then made to work under slave labour conditions as a weaver, and at one time weighed only 45 kilos. After about four years he was transferred to