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, three years before she died. The company later

history of the Solingen cutlery industry in a more living manner. You would not believe how many hands scissors had to pass through before they were ready for sale. The amount to which the factory affected

visitors can see every machine working. They can observe hand-setting of traditional lead typefaces, and the operation of typesetting machines and hand and powered presses. The craft of bookbinding is demonstrated

kilns were restored and opened to the public in 1995. Visitors can see how the kilns were loaded by hand or conveyor lift and how the burnt lime was taken out at the bottom. The building between them was

‘engine’ and its shorter form ‘gin’. Hargreaves could not read and write and worked as a domestic hand-loom weaver with his own spinning wheel and loom in his cottage. At this time, demand for thread was

seventh "Days of Industrial Heritage on the Waterfront" for guided tours and demonstrations, visits and hands-on activities to showcase their facilities and tell their stories, with water always playing a major [...] Buxtehude, are located some 100 kilometres from the coast. The Curslack field drainage mill, on the other hand, stands for hundreds of wind-powered versions of its kind that once existed in the marshlands and

expression of the latest state of technology; yet it has already taken on a museum function. On the other hand the housing settlement that looks like an open air museum is still a part of everyday life. The rise

r Emil Jenzer and a library and archive. A working studio helps visitors to learn with their own hands.

266 men died, including 3 rescuers and one man on surface killed by a secondary explosion. Only a handful of men escaped and only eleven bodies were recovered. So fierce was the fire that firefighting had

prominent place among the creations of local goldsmiths; it is produced by hand in small-scale, family-run workshops, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. The Filigree Route allows you to

1828 the brothers had a workshop at Pafendal, on the east side of the city. Apparently, this had only hand-looms for weaving woollen cloth, but in 1835 they established a woollen factory nearby at Schläifmille

special exhibitions by leading glass artists. But the focus is on experiencing the industry first-hand. Visitors begin in the glass-making workshop, where they can watch glassblowers and even try to blow

them in the traditional kilns, before painting and glazing begins. Creative visitors can try their hand at the pottery wheel. Everything is just as it was here. The soot-black walls of the building, the

"AEG". On the one hand, changes in commercial law contributed to this, which increasingly made it possible for banks and citizens to finance investments by buying shares. On the other hand, far-sighted reforms

is also a major milestone on the long journey to conserving the railway heritage and making it a hands-on experience. An early indication that this was imperative is the DB Museum in Nuremberg, Germany

Roger Münch. But the German Newspaper Museum offers more than simply texts to read, but plenty of hands-on activities and things to look at. The Premonstratensian abbey at Wadgassen used to contain a large [...] from the printing press to the mass production line. A section entitled "Our Newspaper Today: Take a Hand and Learn A Lot" invites visitors to take part in a sort of basketball game where they have throw

techniques, spring mattresses, filigree jewellery and even a wire chain tanga. There are plenty of hands-on activities too. Visitors can try their skills on historic wire-drawing and rolling machines. In

almost everything to do with the history of tool making in Germany and central Europe from a stone-age hand axe to computer-controlled machines. The star exhibits are the world’s first production furnace for [...] the industrialisation of tool making. Which stages in technological progress marked the path from hand-forged files to mechanical file cutting? What did this mean for the workers concerned? How are precision

in the German Damask and Terry Museum is probably the only functional hand-draw damask loom as well as the last surviving terry hand loom in Germany.

the boat is particularly impressive. You get the impression that you are holding the rudder in your hand yourself. This can only be beaten by a trip on the Oscar Huber, the last remaining steam barge on