David Hockney painted Salts Mill in warm ochre tones. Today both the painter and the place are world-famous. Hockney was born in the Northern industrial city of Bradford. And Salts Mill, an old textile [...] art galleries and other artistic venues. The largest attraction is an exhibition of the work of David Hockney. In 2001 Saltaire Village was inscribed into the United Nations list of World Cultural Heritage

first collection of specimens and artefacts related to forest industries was established by Henry David Wilchens (1763-1832). The museum occupies premises in the Estaházy palace alongside those of the Central

Spain: a replica of the three-wheeled Bonet designed in 1897 (the first car made in Catalunya), a David made in Barcelona in 1907, a Kapi made in Barcelona in 1954 and a Goggomobil made at Bilbao in 1964

leather on a large scale, and, after the establishment of the Neorion Yard by the British engineer David Smith in 1861, building iron ships. The museum: Built in 1888, the building first housed a lead shot

Waterford. It developed as an industrial community from 1825 when property in the vicinity was bought by David Malcolmson (1765-1844) a Quaker, descended from Scots who migrated to Ireland in the 17th century [...] Mayfield Foundry was established within the complex. At its peak the mill employed up to 2,000 people. David Malcolmson built some houses for his workpeople from 1825, and more were added in the 1830s, but the

number of factories increasing from 15 in 1827 to more than 30 by 1850. The American manufacturer David Haviland settled in Limoges about 1840 and began to export porcelain in large quantities to the United

extensive marshalling yards and its locomotive depot was one of the largest in England. A local brewer, David Dulley, was responsible for the opening of a public bath house in 1892, and this building now houses

(1732-1818), who once spoke of ‘converting Sutherlandshire into Lancashire’. A partnership that included David Dale (1739-1806), the founder of New Lanark and George Macintosh (1739-1807), the Glasgow dyer, built

statistical data on which those who shaped social policy were to draw for many years. In 1907 he met David Lloyd George (1863-1945), then President of the Board of Trade, and had a considerable influence on

ironworks was the subject in 1930 of the film Enthusiasm: the Symphony of Donbass, by Dziga Vertov (David Kaufmann) (1896-1954). Some of the letters home written by early Welsh settlers have survived and

mid-nineteenth century and ran them and other businesses for six decades. Knud Graah’s older brother David moved from Denmark to the city of Christiana (now called Oslo), where Knud joined him in 1833, at

First World War, after the establishment in 1915 of the Ministry of Munitions under the direction of David Lloyd George (1863-1945), the British government built some 240 ‘National Factories’ for the manufacture

the ‘Jones Goods’, one of the first class of 4-6-0s to be built in the United Kingdom, designed by David Jones (1834-1906) and built by Sharp Stewart & Co of Glasgow for the Highland Railway in 1894, and

Lanark, on the River Clyde in Scotland, that had been built by Richard Arkwright in partnership with David Dale (1739-1806), whose daughter became Owen’s wife. Owen managed the mills from the first day of

1793, Murray was put in charge of it and made improvements to its operation. In 1795, Murray and David Wood set up their own engineering works for manufacturing textile equipment and steam engines, with

Neuve Chapelle in the early summer of 1915. In consequence a coalition government was formed in which David Lloyd George (1863-1945) directed a new Ministry of Munitions which built ‘National Factories’ in

with plaster copies of works of art and architecture that include Trajan’s Column, Michaelangelo’s David and the Portico de la Gloria from the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, and collections from Japan

Cook had competitors in the organisation of excursions in the 1850s, including Henry R Marcus and David Lewis, but his skills and ambition enabled him to create a brand that remains powerful in the twenty-first

first quarter of the century, particularly thanks to the initiative of Bohemian entrepreneur Johann David Starck. By contrast, machine-tool manufacturing in the Pilsen region was launched by the investment