the milestones of European industrial history. What is ERIH ? ERIH is the European Route of Industrial Heritage, a network of the most important industrial heritage sites in Europe. It is the common link [...] link landscapes and sites which have left their mark on European industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South Wales, a key region in the "world's first industrial nation". Both these areas [...] the tracks of the industrial revolution. Theme Routes take up specific questions relating to European industrial history and reveal potential links between radically different industrial monuments all over

United Kingdom (essay "Industrial Revolution", sites of European Theme Routes, biographies) Lorenz Töpperwien , Cologne, Germany (Achor Points, Regional Routes "Ruhrgebiet" and "Industrial Valleys", translations [...] Verantwortungsbereiches des Autors liegen, würde eine Haftungsverpflichtung ausschließlich in dem Fall in Kraft treten, in dem der Autor von den Inhalten Kenntnis hat und es ihm technisch möglich und zumutbar [...] translations English <> German) Matthias Hennies , Cologne, Germany (industrial history of European countries, history of industries, translations German > English) Dr Peter Wakelin , Llangattock Lingoed, Abergavenny

The first modern factory in history was built in Cromford in the Derwent valley, not far from Nottingham. The Derwent is anything but a fast-flowing river. That said it flows quickly enough to be able [...] machine: the water frame. It could spin fine yarn in a way which only hand driven spinning wheels had been able to do until then: but at an unprecedented speed. In 1771 Arkwright built the first water-driven [...] inventions and factories and especially with the people who worked in the factories. The major burden of the Industrial Revolution – here and elsewhere – rested on their shoulders.

caring for their souls. As a consequence of the French Revolution the monastery was closed down in 1796 and its life came to an abrupt end. Only in 1826 did new activities begin to revive life inside the [...] A lovingly designed journey back in time entitled "The Journey in the Balloon" presents highly detailed historical scenes from the history of glass manufacturing in Val Saint Lambert. After their time-journey [...] The company was first quoted on the stock market in 2005, an exclusive boutique has been opened in Brussels and further boutiques are being planned in Paris, New York and Tokyo. If that´s not success,

pioneer of the flax industry in the Industrial Revolution period, and Temple Mill in Leeds is his most impressive memorial. After entering his father’s modest linen business in Leeds he acquired a taste for [...] the adjacent offices of 1843, also in the Egyptian style. In the years after its completion the mill attracted many visitors who marvelled at the efficient ways in which production was organised. Temple [...] that was opened in 1791. In 1793 Marshall entered into partnership with Thomas and Benjamin Benyon of Shrewsbury, where, with Charles Bage, they built the iron-framed Ditherington flax mill in 1796-97, but

and books relating to arts and trades of all kinds’. It opened in 1799 in the buildings of a priory dissolved during the Revolution. In the course of the 19th century it acquired collections from several [...] of technology in France dates from 1794, the time of the French Revolution, when a national conservatory of arts and trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) was created, which was conceived [...] exhibitions held in France. Until the 1880s the Conservatoire was involved with the patent system and acquired many models and drawings submitted by aspirant patentees. The museum’s Industrial Portfolio includes

INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AZERBAIJAN The industrial history of Azerbaijan is largely a history of oil. Iron, copper and other ores also lie in the country's soil, but mining remained co [...] resources and in particular lacks coal and iron ore, the basic ingredients of the classic heavy industries. Only potash, used in making fertilisers and in glass manufacture ... more BELGIUM The industrial age of [...] significant natural resources, its industrial development did not commence until very late. As in other countries ... more DENMARK Not many nations have succeeded in managing the transition to industr

History: The Industrial Revolution in Belgium Industrial Heritage in Belgium WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Belgium World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Belgium? Grand Hornu. Mine and Workers Settlement [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF BELGIUM Listen The industrial age of the European continent began in Belgium, where conditions were similarly good to those in England: coal had been mined in the valleys of [...] also a pioneer in finance and played an important role in the development of the Ruhr region in Germany. The big push began after independence in 1830. Brussels was modernised, and industrial firms settled

List Searching in History: The Industrial Revolution in France HpT: Révolution industrielle en France et dans le Monde (XIXe) WIKIPEDIA: Economy of France World Atlas: The biggest industries in France Noisiel [...] of the century, when industrial car production had also started in France. Panhard and Lévassor started building cars in Paris in 1886. Three years later, Renault opened its doors in nearby Boulogne-Billancourt [...] However, the Royal Foundry of Le Creusot in Burgundy, which the industrialist Eugène Schneider took over in 1836, developed into probably the most famous steelworks in France: he founded an empire with the

James McGuffog, a draper in Stamford, Lincolnshire, before spending time in the retail trade in London and Manchester. He was appointed manager in 1792 of a mill in Manchester in which 500 people were employed [...] of the Industrial Revolution, a successful and philanthropic factory owner, a pioneer of co-operation and a thinker who inspired socialist movements in many countries. He was born in Newtown in mid-Wales [...] at Orbiston in Scotland in 1825-29, Manea Fen in Cambridgeshire in 1838-9, and Harmony Hall, Queenswood, East Tytherley, Hampshire, in 1840-45. Owen withdrew from the New Lanark partnership in 1829, set

tolerances in vertical boring machines. Maritz made solid castings, that were rotated by water-power in horizontal machines, in which the cutters were advanced through gearing by hand wheels. In the early [...] operations in cannon foundries, which have been published, are amongst the most important pictorial records of 18th century industrial operations. Jan Verbruggen played an important role in transmitting [...] to the entrepreneurs of the Industrial Revolution. His 3-story brick house of 1772-3 is preserved at the Woolwich Arsenal, and his guns are displayed in military collections in Europe and North America.

water-powered cotton-spinning mill, in which he had a 20% share, which attracted attention from all over Europe. The Cromford Mill site, which probably began to work in 1774, was powered by the Bonsall Brook [...] The mill was extended, and in 1780 Arkwright bought land for another mill complex powered by the Derwent itself. Masson Mill, as it came to be called, was built in brick, in contrast with the plain local [...] producing increasing amounts of cotton cloth. Arkwright took a close interest in the improvement of spinning machinery. In 1768 he moved to Nottingham, where he formed a partnership to develop the spinning

starting point for a company involved in a wide range of industrial activities that is important in many countries. He was the son of a quarry master at Rebecq-Regnoz in Belgium. Ill-health prevented his [...] Cuillet near Charleroi in 1863, the same year in which he founded Solvay et Cie with his brother. In the 1870s the company became a global operation with the estalishment of plants in France at Dombasle near [...] university, instead of which he worked for an uncle at a gasworks where his interest in chemistry developed as he sought to find uses for the ammonia that was the by-product of gasmaking. In 1861 he developed

father and brother in a workshop established in Liege in 1807, where they manufactured textile machines. In 1815-6 he and his brother set up a successful woollen manufacturing business in Berlin, but returned [...] 1844. He died in Warsaw while returning to Seraing after discussing the prospects for equipping projected railways in Russia. In 1850 the Seraing complex was probably the largest of its kind in Europe, and [...] Petersburg in 1794, but after the death of Empress Catherine II was imprisoned. After escaping to Sweden, he settled in Verviers as a maker of textile machines. His 12-year-old son John joined him in 1802.

brother to the dukedom, after his death in the same year as that of their father. His interests as a young man were in gaming and horse-racing, but during his Grand Tour in 1753-55 he diverted from the usual [...] completed in 1761, was built from Worsley, where it connected with navigable levels through underground coal workings, to Castlefields in Manchester. It was extended to the River Mersey at Runcorn in 1772, [...] when the Manchester Ship Canal was built in 1893. The aqueduct and the coal workings, which were served by a 73 km underground canal system of waterways on which there was an inclined plane of 1795-6, were

consequences of the Industrial Revolution in England, devoted much of his life to supporting and publicising the writings of Karl Marx, and was himself an original thinker whose ideas in the 20th century [...] r, and spent three years in the employment of a merchant in Bremen, before moving to a managerial post with the family concern in Manchester, one of many Germans who worked in the textile cities of northern [...] of the Working Classes in England", which was published in 1845. It reflects the anger and the guilt of a member of a mercantile family at the living conditions that observed in the most deprived areas

to the intellectual background to the Industrial Revolution in Britain. He was born in Burslem, North Staffordshire, in a region where pottery manufacture was already well-established, although the units [...] models on which some of his designs were based. It was probably the largest and was certainly the most logically-designed pottery works of the period, in which workers undertook only limited tasks in the production [...] 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

the two brothers became partners in the Bersham works in 1774, while William had a 1/8 share in John’s ironworks at Snedshill, Shropshire. William left Britain for France in 1777, following a visit to Bersham [...] out his brother’s share in Bersham, but William received ?8000 in compensation. William Wilkinson never became a commanding figure in the British iron industry, but his role in transmitting new technologies [...] William Wilkinson was the principal channel through which British innovations in ironmaking in the 18th century were transferred to continental Europe. He was the son of the pot founder Isaac Wilkinson

of Latin. In early adulthood he worked in textile warehouses, on a farm, and as a seaman on a collier sailing from the Tyne to London, but in his 20s became increasingly involved in politics in a time of [...] of domestic textile workers during the Industrial Revolution. Bamford was born in Middleton 8 km north of Manchester, the son of a muslin weaver, a dissenter in religion, who was also a part-time teacher [...] memoir, Passages in the Life of a Radical, in 1840-1, and the memoirs of his childhood, Early Days, in 1849, but found it difficult to make a living, and was supported by a public subscription in 1846. He wrote

collar which made possible the efficient working of Bramah’s hydraulic press, and married Bramah’s housekeeper, Sarah Tindal, in 1790. In 1798 Maudslay opened his own engineering shop, initially in Wells [...] 1808, for refinements to the lathe in 1806, and for the table engine in 1807. In 1810 he moved to Westminster Bridge Road where he set up Henry Maudslay & Co, which became Maudslay, Field & Co, when he [...] machine tools that made possible the widespread percolation of engineering skills during the Industrial Revolution, and guided the education of many of the leading British engineers of the mid-19th century