company moved in 1897 to the East Hecla Works at Tinsley, and, after expansion during the First World War, employed 13,000 people and had a capital valuation of ?1.9 million by 1918. Hadfield was knighted

containing reservoirs for sprinkler systems. His last mill, Magpie Mill No 2, was completed in Oldham in 1915. After the First World War there was less demand for new cotton mills and Stott turned his attention

the company has continued to innovate in automotive technology in the decades since the Second World War. Bosch was always anxious to spread his company’s operations beyond the frontiers of Germany and

Hall (now Ruskin College), Oxford, in 1900. While on military service in India during the First World War he learned Sanskrit. He was employed at the railway works, principally as a hammerman, between 1892

influence on Lloyd George`s legislation on Old Age Pensions and National Insurance. During the First World War he was Welfare Director of the Ministry of Munitions. He advocated the enforcement of a minimum

built for the Swedish navy, and recognised their potential for road transport. During the First World War he worked on engines for flying boats and for tanks, and in 1915 established his consultancy Engine [...] the Triumph company, diesel engines for Citroen cars and various aero engines. During the Second World War he worked on the Whittle jet engine. His company still operates from the headquarters he established [...] established at Shoreham and is involved in the development of motor vehicles throughout the world. Sir Harry Ricardo is commemorated by an English Heritage plaque on the house where he was born and grew up in

the trains which evacuated children from London to the provinces at the outbreak of the Second World War. He was recruited to the wartime Ministry of Information but his career there was cut short by his

From experience gained in maintaining X-ray apparatus for the combatant armies during the First World War, from 1925 the research staff at Philips, led by Erik de Vries, experimented with television apparatus

express trains along the East Coast Main Line. He joined the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, although ill health prevented him from serving as a pilot. Subsequently he was a director of the

designers of the 20th century. He spent most of his life in Paris and was best-known before the Second World War for his concept cars. He produced ‘La Baleine’ (the whale) on a Buick chassis in 1938, and in 1942

Fokker supplied KLM and other European airlines with the Douglas DC-2 and DC-3 Dakota manufactured under license. After the Second World War the Fokker company was successful with the S-14 military jet trainer [...] in Mecklenburg, where, as Fokker Werke GmbH he had 55 employees. From the outbreak of the First World War the company was taken over by the German government, and produced about 3,000 planes for the country’s [...] His D-VIII, delivered from April 1918, was one of the most effective aircraft to be employed in the war. The destruction of remaining examples was specifically ordered in the Treaty of Versailles. Fokker

of work has always been part of the pattern of industrialisation. In the years after the Second World War many Europeans, particularly from the eastern parts of the continent, found themselves working in [...] Army from Normandy to the Netherlands, where he was wounded, but returned to action and ended the war with his regiment. He was warned by his father not to return to Poland where the Communist government

The life of Arno Wolff, like that of so many European working men, was shaped by the Second World War. He was born in East Prussia. His father served in the Germany army and was killed on the Eastern Front

des Wagons-Lits. Its assets were seized during the Nazi occupation of Belgium during the Second World War but passed to the four British railway companies which were nationalised in 1948. The Cook business [...] excursion on the River Nile in 1869, and in 1872 personally escorted a small party on a 222-day round-the-world tour, crossing the Atlantic to the United States, then the Pacific to Japan, returning to England

way, combining various functions, we were awarded in 2021 with the prestigious title of Best of the World by National Geogrpahic Traveler in the Sustainable Development category. This is a source of great [...] Heritage (ERIH) is co-created by post-industrial sites from 28 European countries. The route includes over 2,300 sites, and the association itself has over 400 members. The most important sites on the ERIH route

colliery , the district's only World Heritage Site, doesn't really need much more to be said about it, considering its reputation as the ‘most beautiful colliery in the world’ and the flagship of an industrial [...] 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 Anchor Point

ERIH Anchor Points National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, World Heritage Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon and National Slate Museum World Heritage Site in Llanberis. A number of five-minute project [...] for Wales, presented previous efforts to implement the regional route "Valleys that changed the World". The potential of ERIH in supporting its members was the subject of the lecture "Industrial heritage [...] Heritage Park in Rhondda (Darren Macey, Managing Director). The book "Coal, Beer and Chartism: The World of Zephaniah and Joan Williams" was the subject of another five-minute lecture, given by Les James

region, is located at the transition of the Pyrenees into the Cantabrian Mountains and has more than 2.2 million inhabitants. Its prosperity owes much to industrialisation, which began in the 1840s with iron [...] d by the Bilbao Maritime Museum and – further downstream in Getxo – by the Puente Colgante , the world's first transporter bridge. Getxo is also home to the mansions of wealthy tycoons, whose history is

previously undetected zinc deposits. Will this be the beginning of a new mining chapter? ERIH article in IK 2.23 (German): "Ein sprödes Metall verändert die Welt. Standorte der Zinkindustrie in Europa" (pdf)

Special highlights this year include giant 3D mappings, a skywalk tour, a light show featuring works by world-famous artists such as Gustav Klimt and Hundertwasser, and various music acts set against a spectacular