s like this are one of the reasons why entrepreneurs in the Bergisches Land ("Country of Berg" or "Land of Berg") called their factories ‚Cromford‘, ‚Birmingham‘ or ‚Sheffield‘. Until the mid 19th century

Richard Steiff designed a jointed bear which rapidly proved to be commercially successful. Hermann Berg of New York Toy Co bought 3000 at Leipzig fair in 1903 and the following year the company was awarded

listed buildings and three new buildings on an area of 13,504 sqm in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. The Pfeffer brewery was the first bottom-fermented brewery north of the former city limits of Berlin

cent share of the global marine diesel-engine industry. Engines by foreign companies such as Bamford, Berg and Deutza (from the United Kingdom, France and Germany respectively) are also on display. Volunteers

former German Democratic Republic (DDR). One section features the celebrated Swedish aviator Jerker Berg (1940-2014), who was injured in air accident, and was confined to a wheelchair but nevertheless continued

produced bottles, jars and other mundane domestic items, but from 1852, under the management of Ole-Chr Berg, it embarked on the production of lead crystal and other decorative forms of glass. In the nineteenth

what is known in France as ‘white coal’ (houille blanche) was built at Lancey in 1869 by Aristide Berges (1833-1904). The production of steel in electric furnaces and of aluminium was pioneered in the region