“Clean and tidy and ready to be fired up once more”. That may be so. But blast… more ERIH PRESENTS over 2,400 sites from all European countries AMONG THEM OVER 100 ANCHOR POINTS Industrial History of 51 countries
verändern, zu ergänzen, zu löschen oder die Veröffentlichung zeitweise oder endgültig einzustellen. 2. Verweise und Links Bei direkten oder indirekten Verweisen auf fremde Webseiten ("Hyperlinks"), die
fully ready as a museum in 2000. The total floor area of the museum centre is approximately 14,000 m2, half of which is devoted to exhibition facilities and premises open to the public. Vapriikki is housed
survive. Together with Styal Village it represents an unrivalled example of an early factory colony. 2. An Extensive Archive A varied collection of objects, pictures and ocuments provide evidence about the
the year in which he displayed at the Great Exhibition in London a flawless 907 steel ingot, and a 2.7 kg cannon. He followed the pattern of earlier generations of English ironmasters by vertically integrating
companies with rails, locomotives, wagons and constructional ironwork. Cockerill built La Belge, a 2-2-2 steam locomotive, the first to be constructed in continental Europe, and the works had completed 100
with two low-pressure cylinders driving the forward axle. His most celebrated locomotives were the 4-4-2s (Atlantics) built for the Chemin de Fer du Nord from 1890, three of which were supplied to the Great
on the railway from Caen to Saint-Lo, opened in 1893, a wrought-iron viaduct on granite pillars, 364.2 m long and 62.5 m high. The line closed in 1860, and the iron spans were removed, leaving only the five
Caribbean. In 1770 he fulfilled the first of many orders for the Empress Catherine of Europe, and in 1771-2 sent a succession of parcels of his products to members of the royal houses of Germany. In the 1770s
in England and France. From 1919 he built one of the first purpose-designed passenger planes, the F-2, which could carry four passenger in a cabin at 160 kph. KLM, the Dutch airline founded in 1919 by Albert [...] established the Atlantic Aircraft Co in 1924, and in due course became an American citizen. A Fokker T-2 made the first non-stop transcontinental flight between New York and San Diego in 1922.He designed and [...] States from 1933. During the 1930s 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
produced sugar refining machinery, but focussed increasingly on locomotives. In 1840 he completed a 4-2-2 locomotive that competed successfully with one made by Robert Stephenson in England, which stimulated
rocket and jet propulsion research centre at Peenemunde in East Prussia, where he developed the A4/V2 rocket from drawings published by the American, Robert H Goddard (1882-1945). Series production of the [...] colleagues to Oberammagau in the Bavarian Alps, where the group surrendered to United States forces on 2 May 1945. He was quickly transported to the United States under Operation Paperclip, and was subsequently
the board of the company agreed that the line should be built to the broad gauge of 7 ft 0 ? inches (2.14 m). The main line of the Great Western Railway was completed in 1841. It was memorably recorded in
the main frames were placed in line beneath the smokebox of a locomotive. He produced the class 310 2-6-4 tender engine in 1911 that came to symbolise the Austrian express passenger locomotive, and is generally [...] generally reckoned to be one of the outstanding locomotives produced in Europe. He also designed a 2-8-0 freight locomotive of which nearly a thousand examples were built, as well as passenger stock for
The brickworks were founded in 1926 by the Tsalapatas brothers and cover a total area of 22,000m2 (236,806ft2, or roughly 5,44 acres). The factory used to produce a wide variety of bricks and tiles and, at [...] down in 1978. In 2004 a Rooftile and Brickwork Museum in the factory's main facilities (5,000m2, or 53,820 ft2) was created. It is a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank
opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles, historic machinery and
collections but its most interesting exhibit is the building in which it is housed. The arsenal is a 2-storey brick structure with a miniature octagonal tower, which formally abutted the city walls. An arsenal
