artefacts, machinery, reconstructed interiors and informative displays. The museum was established in the 1980s under the German Democratic Republic and has continued to be developed. It explores the themes of

the largest European producers of aluminium foil. By the 1930s, industry was already generating most of Armenia's economic output. From the 1950s onwards, electrical engineering became the speciality of Armenian [...] Mergelian. The innovative computer families "Rasdan-2" and "Nairi" were developed there in the 1960s. The Museum of Science and Technology in Yerevan documents these pioneering achievements. In order to [...] the Armenian economy, the Soviet leadership had a number of new thermal power plants built in the 1960s, but they still relied on oil and gas imported from abroad. As Lake Sevan was increasingly losing water

War in the Women’s Royal Naval Service. She married Bernard Ashley in 1949. Between 1945 and 1952 she worked as a secretary at the London office of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, and gained [...] in 1958. In 1961 they re-established the business at The Old Railway House, Carno, a crossing keeper’s cottage in mid-Wales, from which materials were distributed to women workers who made them up in their [...] the whole world dressed as milk maids’, and a Birmingham housewife who set up home in the early 1970s using Laura Ashley products, recalled that ‘We did the whole place in English country’. The company

type-setting machines used from the late 19th century until the end of hot metal printing in the 1980s. The museum holds the Swiss Historical Paper Collection made by Dr W F Tschudin, author of the standard [...] converted to make paper in 1453, continued to do so until 1955, and was adapted as a museum in the 1970s. Its displays provide a comprehensive picture of the development of paper making and printing. There

Les Gueules Noires - the black faces: That’s the way the Walloons called their coal buddies. Italians, Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, Russians, Turks and of course Belgians labored in teams to feed the insatiable [...] insatiable blast furnaces around Liege with coal. At the closing in 1980 Blegny mine was the oldest and last remaining mine in the region. Who descends here by cage, is able to follow almost the entire history

software, magazines and tutorials. Among the computers are awe-inspiring supercomputers from the 1980s and 1990s, the Cray-2 (of which only 29 were built) and the IBM Blue Gene. The Swiss computer industry

51,000 tonnes of crude steel. By 1967, eight more furnaces of the same type had been built, and in 1980 two more modern electric furnaces went into operation. By now, the Brandenburg steel and rolling mill [...] brings to life the history of the Brennabor works, Germany's largest automobile factory in the early 1920s. Theatre performances, concerts, events and performances of all kinds take place in the events hall

the tilt hammer. Osemund is ideally suited to making wire. Not for nothing was this one of the region’s major industrial activities. Demand for iron and steel began to rise at the start of the 19th century [...] only shut down in 1972. The Lüdenscheid Municipal Museum has maintained an outside site here since 1980. The fully-operative equipment and machines provide a living picture of blacksmiths’ techniques from

lion’s share of Bulgaria’s exports. As the country could not compete with western economies, plants and products were never modernised. Though the availability of consumer goods improved in the 1960s and [...] and 1970s, there was no money available for the maintenance of housing or transportation infrastructure. Corrections in economic policy failed to materially improve matters. In the 1980s, the government [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF BULGARIA Listen Dramatic political upheavals defined Bulgaria’s economic history and for many years impeted the path to industrialisation. Although a textile factory was founded

other parts of Europe, even large-scale and well-equipped collieries ceased to be viable from the 1980s. Winterslag pit, 4 km north-west of the city of Genk, was the first of the Limburg mines to open,

the late 1960s. As the nature of electronics production changed the company had less need for a traditional factory and parts were let to tenants, particularly to artists from the early 1980s. A rehabilitation [...] complex extends over 5 ha, and was reckoned to be the largest factory in Finland. From the early 1960s Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy became more concerned with electronics rather than traditional cable-manufacture

industrial museum in the mid-1980s. It was one of the last of a succession of conventional indoor industrial museums developed in large towns and cities in the United Kingdom from the 1960s. The museum was initially

high-quality products made for Oso underwear and Fred Perry sportswear. The factory closed in the late 1980s. In 2010, work began to create a new museum as part of Mataró Museum with MNACTEC, the Museums of [...] explain the history of the industry since the eighteenth century. The second floor shows the museum’s rich textile and clothing collections.

outstanding innovations made by the Junghans company, including a radio-controlled table clock of the 1980s, a radio-controlled watch of 1990 and a solar-powered watch of 1995, as well as alarm clocks in great [...] (1808-94). The other four floors of the factory display cars, particularly models built between 1945 and 1980. The arrangement is broadly chronological with the earliest models on the third floor, the cars made

1903 and 1906, when some 400 kilograms of gold were extracted. The mine remained active until the 1980s and opened to visitors in 2017. The accessible tunnels measure approximately 1.6 km. Guided tours [...] Joseph Herbet, the former mine captain, who took many superb photographs through which the landscape’s transformation can be appreciated. The approach to the mine is through a striking modern building that

garage, a wartime assembly factory and a fruit and vegetable cannery that finally closed in 1980. In the mid-1980´s the heart of the factory between the river and Minstergate was cleared for redevelopment [...] of engine as well, including the even larger Road Engines, Ploughing Engines and decorated Showman´s Engines, used for powering Fairground equipment. Many traction engines still exist, 403 from Charles [...] . This high rate of preservation reflects the value placed on the engines by their owners. Burrell´s were not the largest manufacturer but produced high class engines of stylish appearance and unique

section was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1977, but was rebuilt in 1980-83, although a further closure was necessary in the 1990s after a further earthquake. The tower is 22 m high, and has four floors [...] The prominent water tower in Chişinău accommodates the city’s museum founded in 1979. The tower was designed by Alexander Bernadazzi (1831-1907), a Russian architect of Swiss-Italian origins, who is best

recovered as a centre of coal-mining, and now has a population of about 7,000. The mines closed in the 1980s but the landscape is rich in monuments of mining history. La Chaine des Terrils is an organisation

in the 1980s. The Cordouan lighthouse is of extraordinary technical historical importance; therefore it has been listed as a 'Monument historique' since 1862. In 2021, it was inscribed on UNESCO’s World

the onset of foreign competition in the 1860s many craftsmen in the city turned to making bicycles, and from bicycles to motor cycles and then, from the 1880s to motor cars. During and after the Second [...] Coventry was the centre of motor manufacturing in England until the late twentieth century. The city’s principal occupations in 1800 were the making of ribbons, which generate a substantial trade in the [...] making small numbers of cars almost on a cottage industry basis. The Museum of Transport opened in 1980 as a satellite building accommodating the growing collection of vehicles in the Herbert Art Gallery