Fokker supplied KLM and other European airlines with the Douglas DC-2 and DC-3 Dakota manufactured under license. After the Second WorldWar 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 WorldWar 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
the largest Citroën collection in the world. It extends from the Type ‘A’s after the First WorldWar to recent vehicles and includes many examples of the influential 2CV and DS ranges. The cars are arranged
Saint-Martin-d'Aubigny. Due to competition from other building materials and the start of the Second WorldWar, the brickworks closed in 1939. It was saved from demolition and conservation began for it to open [...] sheds and the large circular kiln inside a cover building with a tall chimney. A brickworks was opened 2km away at Périers in 1872. When the clay there ran out, the processes were gradually relocated between
The Valentin memorial preserves the remains of a concrete bunker from the Second WorldWar for building submarines on the river Weser near Bremen. In just twenty months – from summer 1943 to spring 1945 [...] Atlantic convoys. Up to 10,000 civilian forced labourers worked on the construction. Approximately 2,000 died as a result of the physically strenuous work, inadequate care and inhumane living conditions
Franco-Prussian War in 1870. He then went to study at the polytechnic in Zurich, and subsequently to the Societe Alsacienne des Constructions Mecaniques at Mulhouse, which after the war was incorporated [...] articulated steam locomotives. After French forces briefly occupied Mulhouse early in the First WorldWar, he organised an ambulance unit in the French army. He was taken prison, but when the German company [...] 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
translated melodiously for the world market as “Saxon Lace”, “Plauen Lace” and “Dentelles de Saxe”. Embroidery had its heyday in the Belle Époque, the forty years before WorldWar I, but there are still around [...] As early as 1810, commercial hand embroidery in Plauen was well-known, and in 1828 more than 2,000 people were employed in whitework embroidery. The industrialization of the craft proceeded just as quickly
kingdom of Prussia. When the area became part of Poland under the Treaty of Versaille after the First WorldWar, his family moved to Berlin, where his father, Magnus Freiherr von Braun (1877-1972) held cabinet [...] 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 [...] work under inhumane working and living conditions, tens of thousands of them met their death. As the war neared its end von Braun came under increasing suspicion from the government, particularly from Heinrich
than 2% of the German work force were employed in the military sector. In fact, most historians agree now that it was not the big armament companies who finally triggered the outbreak of WorldWar I. The [...] were used rather reluctantly and displayed their full potential only in WorldWar II. Whereas in the first two "industrialised" wars most military innovations had come from civilian sources, now the picture [...] armaments industries have evolved from the small worlds of bronze und iron casting into a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary economic sector. In the Second WorldWar, particularly in Germany, a rather unique measure
Samson died in 1887. The company reached its peak by 1900, when it employed 2,000 people. However, following the First WorldWar, the dissolution of the Zollverein and then the Depression caused it to decline [...] and absorbed by France. His brother Samson was born there in 1811. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars, in 1815, Luxembourg became an independent duchy. In 1828 the brothers had a workshop at Pafendal
containing reservoirs for sprinkler systems. His last mill, Magpie Mill No 2, was completed in Oldham in 1915. After the First WorldWar there was less demand for new cotton mills and Stott turned his attention
shells for the French armed forces during the First WorldWar, and in 1919 established his own car making company in Paris. By 1930 he was the world’s fourth largest car manufacturer. He established dealer [...] 1956. The archetypal car for rural Frenchman, the 2CV was planned to launched at the Paris Motor Show in 1939, but the intervention of the Second WorldWar meant that it did not appear in public until 1948
and Telfunken to set up the first trans-Atlantic telegraph station. In the approach to the First WorldWar the company was the subject of anti-German and anti-Jewish hostility and was forced to close. Weiller [...] Alsace, Weiller was sent away when the region was absorbed by Germany following the Franco-Prussian War. He was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and Oxford University in England, where he read [...] Le Havre, where he could import copper and export his products easily. By 1898 the factory employed 2,000 workers. In 1901 the company was enlarged as the Tréfileries et Laminoirs du Havre (TLH) but a crash
Second WorldWar when, as a Jew, his share in the rights for Chanel No 5, reverted to her, but he regained them after 1945. She had a ten-year affair with the British aristocrat Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke [...] with her workforce, who were all summarily dismissed on the outbreak of war in 1939 when she decided to close her shops. During the war she collaborated with the Nazi occupiers, who made use of her many c
only limited tasks in the production of complex ceramic wares. Wedgwood showed imagination and skill in marketing. He arranged displays of his ware in London under the patronage of Queen Charlotte, and exported [...] and in 1771-2 sent a succession of parcels of his products to members of the royal houses of Germany. In the 1770s and 80s he published catalogues in French, Dutch and German. His awareness of the importance [...] manufacturer in Europe. He made many notable contributions to the means of producing high-quality ceramic wares, and, in a broader sense, to the intellectual background to the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
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 [...] his company, which, with 20,200 employees was claimed to be the largest industrial concern in the world. Krupp gained a reputation as a benign employer. The company`s workers settlements, particularly Altenhof [...] to control the concern in the 20th century. Alfried Krupp (1907-67) was charged but not tried with war crimes for his use of slave labour during the Third Reich, but regained control of the company in 1953
class formed and the first signs of urbanisation appeared in the mining centres. During the First WorldWar and the following turmoil, the still agrarian, backward country suffered severely from hunger and [...] catastrophic earthquake in 1988 and the wars with neighbouring Azerbaijan have further aggravated the dramatic economic crisis. Related Links WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Armenia World Atlas: The biggest industries in [...] 1956 by the highly respected mathematician Sergei Mergelian. The innovative computer families "Rasdan-2" and "Nairi" were developed there in the 1960s. The Museum of Science and Technology in Yerevan documents
cotton and linen and later printing wallpaper. As early as 1764 his factory covered an area of nearly 2 ha and ten years later it employed 900 people. He developed mechanization and integrated production [...] brother Frédéric with a canvas-printing factory, also in Corbeil. The disruption of the Napoleonic Wars caused a decline in business and the invasion by Russian and Prussian forces in 1815 resulted in the [...] the factory closing. Oberkampf died soon afterwards. His son Émile restarted it after the war. The printing works continued until 1843 and the spinning and weaving factory until 1894. The name Oberkampf
sector and in 1917 founded the Compañía Siderúrgica del Mediterráneo, which after the Spanish Civil War became part of its competitor, Altos Hornos de Vizcaya. In 1971 Altos Hornos del Mediterráneo was [...] working-class neighbourhoods remain. Of the old factory, the General Workshop Warehouse, Blast Furnace No. 2 and the Spare Parts Warehouse have been preserved, which will become the future Museum of Industrial
the neoclassical architect Denis Antoine on the Quai de Conti. It is part of the Banks of the Seine World Heritage site. The 177-metre building that faces the quay contained the offices, while courtyards [...] still made. A museum explains the process of making coins and medals and their significance. Around 2,000 pieces are on show from collections of 170,000 objects. Beautifully designed exhibitions give visitors
