charging platform. Here, where the blast furnace was once charged with coke and ore, you can get the best view of the mill and the surrounding industrial landscape of the Saar valley. The many different artistic
the ironworks ceased operations in 1950. Today Strömfors Ironworks is considered one of Finland's best preserved ironworks villages. Among the surviving buildings is the brick building of a water-powered
Noisiel is one of the best-preserved industrial communities in Europe. At its centre is a chocolate factory of 1872 designed for Emile Justin Menier (1812-81) by the engineer Jules Logre and the architect
village attached to the mill is used by the company as holiday accommodation. Verla is one of the best-preserved company villages in Europe and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
bridges at Chaumont in the 19th arrondisement of Paris in 1867 and at Bry-sur-Marne in 1893-4. His best-known and most spectacular achievements were the wrought-iron frame for the Statue of Liberty, whose
Joseph Wedgwood was, in his lifetime, the best-known pottery manufacturer in Europe. He made many notable contributions to the means of producing high-quality ceramic wares, and, in a broader sense, to
prize at the Thuringia Industrial Exhibition in 1861, where his exhibits were said to be amongst the best scientific instruments made in Germany. He produced his thousandth microscope in 1866. He co-operated
Oskar von Miller was a talented Bavarian electrical engineer who is best known as the founder of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He was a member of a wealthy family and was admitted in 1875 to the Bavarian
Eusebi Guell was a Catalan textile entrepreneur, best known as a patron of the architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) and as the creator of a workers’ colony in the tradition established in Britain by Robert
Robert Bosch is best-known in the history of technology for his role in the development of the spark plug, and in business history as the founder of what has become a global electronics group. He was born
London, and the terminus building at London Bridge station of 1841-44, both of which remain. He was best-known as the designer of apartments for the working class. In 1835 he built the Sailors` Home in Well
Frank Pick was the manager who created what was probably Europe`s best urban passenger transport network of the first half of the 20th century. The son of a Congregationalist draper from Spalding, Lincolnshire [...] commissioned posters from leading artists and attractive but hard-wearing upholstery fabrics from the best textile designers. In 1913-16 Edward Johnson (1872-1944) designed for him the typeface that, in a
which was followed in 1833 by tables of the levels and lengths of inland waterways. Bradshaw became best known as a publisher of information about railway services. He was one of several British writers
Éttorre Bugatti is best known as the builder of some of Europe’s most prestigious performance cars, but his interests extended to other forms of engineering, and he succeeded in managing a business of
Thomas Russell Crampton is best-known as the designer of a distinctive type of steam locomotive that was more popular in continental Europe than in his native England, but he was also a distinguished civil
Alderney, and in Hamburg in 1845. He was consultant engineer for the construction of one of London’s best known landmarks, the tower of the Houses of Parliament universally known as ‘Big Ben’. His most important
some of their workpeople. Abraham Darby III (1750-89) Abraham Darby III, son of Abraham Darby II, is best known as the builder of the Iron Bridge, whose erection he supervised as a young man in his twenties
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