advice from the military engineer Francisco Antonio Elorza. Asturias had a rich coalfield, iron-ore mines at Langreo and Laviana and the newly built Langreo railway (opened in 1853) to the coast at Gijón
region in transition. With the completion of Central Shaft XII in 1932, one of the most efficient coal mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not long after its demise in 1986, today's ERIH
1818, Brunel had patented a tunnelling ‘shield’. This was a reinforced shield of cast iron in which miners would dig forwards in separate compartments. The shield was driven forward by jacks and the tunnel
and Roebuck gave up his partnership in 1768. In the 1760s Roebuck took a lease on estates with coal mines and a salt works at Kinneil, about 10 km east of Carron, though he could raise enough capital to develop
organised the movement of plant and research staff from Peenemunde to the area around the potash mines at Bleicherode in the spring of 1945. He moved with colleagues to Oberammagau in the Bavarian Alps
founder Isaac Wilkinson (1695-1784) and the younger brother of John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the most prominent ironmaster of the British Industrial Revolution. Both William and John Wilkinson grew up in Cumbria
By 1870, 1,350 employees produced an annual output of 10,000 tons of pig iron. Coal and iron ore mines were acquired in several regions. After the introduction of the Thomas process, Stumm-Halbert began
interests of the Thyssen Corporation were taken over in 1970, the year after the Mannesmann coal mines became part of Ruhrkohle AG. From 1990 Mannesmann diversified into telecommunications, which made
the aid of his cousin, Percy Carlyle Gilchrist (1851-1935), who had studied at the Royal School of Mines, and was chemist at the Blaenavon Ironworks in South Wales. Edward Martin, the manager of the Blaenavon
where most of the raw materials were worked as well. In the Basque province of Vizcaya however, mines and steel works proliferated, stimulated by Britain’s insatiable demand for iron. On their return [...] The government subsidised exports and supported the expansion of the labour-intensive Asturian coal mines and Basque steel works. The INI attempted to keep the shipbuilding industry competitive by merging
systematic exploitation of raw materials began on Java and Sumatra: private investments flowed into tin mines, oil fields and rubber plantations. After the controversial "cultivation system" was abolished in [...] significant coal deposits began in Limburg, the southernmost province. Over the next thirty years, 12 mines erected their winding towers there and a densely populated industrial region developed around the
1775, he and Watt created their formal partnership to design and install steam engines, typically at mines and blast furnaces. The parts were made by others under their supervision and they took a royalty
John Blenkinsop to make a more reliable locomotive. In 1815, he invented a safety lamp for use in mines (the same year Humphry Davy invented one). He then began to design complete railways. He built the
Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1825. Robert left the country in 1824 to establish gold and silver mines in Colombia, South America. On his return journey in 1827 he met the locomotive pioneer Richard Trevithick
for better conditions. For a few years she was a leading figure in the ‘New Unionism’, playing a prominent role in the organisation of unskilled female workers. She sought public office and was top of the
current debates and practices. Topics include the transformation of factories, social housing, mills, mines, ports, railways and power plants, as well as broader cultural, social and economic perspectives on
Revolution. He was born in Greenock, the son of James Watt (1698-1782), a prosperous merchant and prominent citizen of the Scottish port. He had a talent for mathematics, and trained as a maker of mathematical
represented Boulton and Watt in Cornwall, where they provided numerous steam engines for tin and copper mines. He erected engines, maintained them and improved their performance. He helped frequently with projects
Creusot and redeveloped them along with their Paris operation under the title Société Anonyme des Mines, Forges et Fonderies du Creusot et de Charenton. The French company went bankrupt in the financial
