coal-mining community in Yorkshire, the son of a plumber and grandson on both sides of his family, of miners. He was an enthusiastic collector from an early age, and at the age of 16 determined to follow a
succeed in displaying plants and machinery exactly as they once operated and were used, for example, by miners as part of their everyday lives. "We show that the Industrial Revolution changed the world we live
materials and gave work and bread to the people in the brickworks, lime furnaces, alum plants and mines – not to speak of serious illnesses in the course of their working-lives. All this is recalled in
of the largest energy producers in the socialist federation: More coal mines were built, especially the huge open-cast coal mine in Ekibastuz, natural gas production was expanded, and oil wells sprang
region. Riepl continued to consult on industrial enterprises, including an ironworks at Sobotín and mines in Istria, Dalmatia and Bohemia. His work enabled the exploitation of mineral wealth and the industrial
graduated in law. In 1881 he formed the partnership Aznar y Sota with his cousin Eduardo Aznar to mine iron ore and ship it to steelmakers in Britain. They created mining companies at Setares in Cantabria
her Platz, purchased the Heinrichshütte steelworks near Hattingen and acquired iron ore and coal mines. She continued working into her seventies and handed ownership of the company to her son Karl in 1912
age of 14 he worked as a labourer on a nearby farm. The next year he left home to work with an iron-mine prospector, then progressed to an apprenticeship with an ironmonger and other jobs related to ironworking
architects who designed buildings in the AEG cable-manufacturing and power station complex at 76-78 Wilhelminenstrasse, in Kopenik, Oberschoneweide, and was himself responsible for the nearby factory of the AEG-owned
One of the earliest and most prominent examples of a housing estate for workers is New Lanark in Scotland, an ERIH Anchor Point and Unesco World Heritage Site. Established as early as 1800, the site was
given its own locomotives and drivers. It was kept busy by products and goods for the nearby coal mines until it was forced to close in 1969. One year earlier the DGEG was set up as a private organisation
use until 1900. Meanwhile, Périer decided to build and sell steam engines himself at Chaillot for mines and factories across France. He paid an operating fee to Boulton & Watt under licence for his first
and hydraulic presses for packing cloth and testing chains. He was also a consulting engineer to mines, drainage projects, gasworks and waterworks. After he died in 1826, his own foundry made a cast-iron
the latest technologies of electric power and telephone communications. He also became a partner in mines in the area and the brewery La Austriaca with his uncle and other members of the extended family.
ceramics industry. He was active in the promotion of turnpike roads, and of canals, particularly prominent of the Trent & Mersey Canal that bordered Etruria. Through the Lunar Society of Birmingham he was
(1780-1914). The serial property comprises six components each encompassing relict quarries and mines, archaeological sites related to slate industrial processing, historical settlements, both living
pattern of earlier generations of English ironmasters by vertically integrating his company, acquiring mines from which his furnaces could draw iron ore and coal, and establishing engineering shops where castings
machinery and watercourses. In 1752, he created an ingenious solution to flooding problems at a coal mine in Lancashire, using a tunnel with an inverted syphon and a waterwheel pump. In 1759, he was appointed
independence of Cuba and in favour of trade protectionism to enable the growth of Catalan industry. A prominent statue of him was put up on La Rambla in Barcelona. Güell’s son Eusebi took over the businesses
