building designed in 1907 by the architect Barry Parker. You can visit Barry Parker’s office, filled with hand-made Arts and Crafts furniture and enjoy the temporary exhibitions programme, which explores the social

economic miracle. In the summer months, a water playground is set up in the outdoor area. At around 20 hands-on stations spread throughout the grounds, young and old can learn about technical interrelationships

The museum is attached to a workshop that continues to make pocket knives by hand – Navallas de Taramundi. The Quintana family has made knives in the region for seven generations, since around 1700. They

in Kleinenbremen. From 1883 until the 1960s, iron ore was mined here in several shifts, first by hand and then with large machines. The mine workings were also expanded during the Second World War for

loom by springs. It ran on a board between boxes at each end, controlled by a chord in the weaver’s hand. The invention doubled the speed of weaving. It also made it possible to weave broad cloth with one

of cards recorded a particular pattern and they could be changed to make a different one. This made hand-weaving much faster and more accurate. In 1805 Napoleon declared Jacquard’s invention the property

and include notable works of art by local smiths as well as 94 different types of nail. Displays of hand forging can be arranged for visiting groups at Vigenjc Vice, a timber and brick smithy used from the

centre of linen manufactures. William Coulson (1739-1801) established a damask weaving factory, using hand looms, in Lisburn in 1764; his company split in two in 1830s under his sons. Both branches continued

cooperated with the Meisenthal glassworks of Mathieu Burgun. And between 1885 and 1894 Gallé’s right-hand man, the head of the painting workshop, Désiré Christian worked exclusively on Emile Gallé’s designs

guns and pistols which looked alike, but in the final assembly every single part had to be fitted by hand. Now gun makers from North America, like Samuel Colt, developed high-precision machine tools, which

and the factory office. The subject is introduced with a video and panels and there is a display of hand tools, loom shuttles and other small objects.

lithography for cans and labels. The second floor is set out as a traditional printing works with hand-compositing of metal type as well as typesetting machines. Printing and bookbinding are demonstrated

railway museum in Europe, and visitors can enjoy many experiences, riding on a horse tram, operating a hand-driven permanent way inspection trolley, driving one of the 12 operational steam locomotives on a

Empire, manufacturing table wares, light fittings and containers such as bottles and jars. By 1900 hand-blowing had been abandoned in the manufacture of many products and replaced by the use of machines

can see flour being milled every Sunday when the site is open. There is a car park, tea shop, second-hand bookshop, toilets and baby-changing facilities during opening times. Houghton mill is also an excellent

being delivered to brewers. Some vehicles used in association with old methods of picking hops by hand are displayed, together with examples of the machines developed for use in harvesting. The museum

development of papermaking technology and watermarks. Craftsmen in a modern workshop make paper by hand that is offered for sale to visitors.

museum is a complete production line for making dynamite, from a period when the process was largely hand-operated. There are many photographs of the factory when it was working, and a model of a nearby sulphuric

drew off the water and horses raised it to the surface by turning a capstan. Prayer and work went hand-in-hand in the reconstructed St Barbara Chapel and the neighbouring smithy, the remains of which have

silver in the eastern Alps. The Habsburg emperors on several occasions took the mine into their own hands. The mine became increasingly difficult to work, and after ventures between 1783 and 1885 seeking