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"Textile manufacturing": the milestones along the way from fibre to factory. Or "Transport and Communication": retracing the tracks of the industrial revolution. Theme Routes take up specific questions relating

wagons on show. Other exhibition units pay tribute to Manchester’s contribution to computers and communications and emphasise its role in the motor-car and aeronautics industry. All in all this is one of the

Around 1900 electric trams began to get the cities on the move. Electricity speeded up office communication and gradually lit up streets, houses, shop windows and businesses. Domestic appliances arrived

machine at Apsley Mills. With paper available in quantity through mechanisation, the era of mass communication became possible and with it the huge steps forward in science, arts, literature, technology, literacy

the Reverand W.Audrey. Next to the A1 road at Stibbington, Wansford Station sits astride the communications of erastern England. The River Nene is crossed several times by the railway, served in turn by

the railway arrived in 1846-8, the foundries were able to take full advantage of the improved communications to find new customers and markets for their goods. The same pattern of development is repeated

Paper is everywhere, and down through the years it has been one of the most important means of communicating culture. In Düren, a town with an important paper industry, there is a complete museum dedicated

century, it attracted waves of people into the town in search of paid work. But the poor road communications and the difficulty firms experienced in expanding their businesses in the narrow Rur valley resulted

normal conversation. That is why the women who operate the machines use their own sign language to communicate. This special language is also understood by the children, whose tasks include crawling under the

every place on earth can be reached within seconds. That said, less than 100 years ago wireless communication demanded gigantic technical equipment. The clearest example of this is the radio station in Grimeton

The Communications Museum has wide-ranging displays that illustrate most of the ways in which people have exchanged ideas, from body language to the Internet, with the emphasis on people’s experiences [...] subject on which the history of multi-lingual Switzerland is particularly enlightening. Postal communications are represented by a post coach that ran from Meiringen through Grimsel to Gletsch between 1894

in 1870 under the direction of Sir John Pender (1815-96), the pioneer of trans-oceanic cable communications. The installations were extended as new cable were laid, and a new station building was constructed [...] two tunnels each 46 m long, 8 m wide and 7 m high, excavated by Cornish tin miners. Changes in communications technology brought about the closure of the station at the end of 1970, although the training

international significance. The islanders depended for their living on fishing, and improved communications enabling the exchange of information about the movements of shoals and the threat of storms were

Haapsalu is a resort of wooden villas ornamented with carvings ranged around a cathedral and the imposing ruins of a medieval bishop’s castle, situated on the sandy west coast of Estonia. Railway serv

workshop of 1898 is preserved, and a building of 1984 by Claude Vasconi has been transformed into a communications centre for Renault, the only activity that the company continues in the area. The buildings on

18th century to the present. It has several exhibits of particular importance in the history of communications including Christian Sorensen’s typesetting machine of 1855, Maling-Hansen’s typewriter of 1867

and the Netherlands. He was responsible for the creation of a new typeface used in all forms of communication, he introduced destination blinds on buses and concrete bus stop signs with panels for the display

letters and parcels, telegraphs, telephones, radio communications, television and the Internet. The displays illustrate all aspects of communications from Mesopotamian clay tablets to the latest digital [...] The core of the museum of communications in Frankfurt is the part of the collection of the museum established in Berlin by Heinrich von Stephan (1831-97) that was removed to Hesse after the Second World [...] digital technology. A particular theme of the Frankfurt museum is the illustration of communications through works of art, paintings, sculptures and photographs, from the 17th century to the present. There

The museum of communications in Nurnberg shares the premises of the railway museum, and the two comprise the city’s Verkehrsmuseum (Museum of Traffic), although the former is managed by the Museumsstiftung [...] y for museums in Berlin and Frankfurt. The main emphasis in the Nürnberg museum is on postal communications, particularly in Bavaria, and the display of mail coaches and the equipment that went with them