complete with sounds and illuminations. Finally, the exhibition in the visitor centre puts the whole experience in the context of regional mining history. After that it is high time to take a walk along the

hierarchy at the pit and the close intermeshing of the various working processes. Visitors can experience a typical day in the life of a collier, enter the director´s office (once the brain centre of the

a mountain? You knock it off. That’s the answer you’d get from a Welshman. The Welsh speak from experience. In North Wales they knocked off mountains en masse – in the form of hundreds of slate quarries

up in the early industrial era. A trip in the so-called “Kaiser’s wagon” promises a very special experience. This is the wagon in which Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife took their places for an official preview [...] hundred years ago. If you leave the overhead railway at the 'Werther Brücke' stop, you will reach the experience museum 'Schwebodrom' after a short walk. In three sections, it presents the history of mobility

families. In two old pithead houses belonging to the former Lewis Merthyr pit, visitors can now experience multimedia shows recounting the dramatic history of the region, its mining disasters, the rebellions

explains the work and social background, the outside site is a place where visitors can get direct experiences. Right next to the forge is the old lime works, and the huge lime furnaces can still be seen on

‘Bolt Tower’. The former engine room U6 with its large machinery still in place invites children to experience the technical evolution from the steam era until today as an interactive journey resembling the

radio operators and the rest of the on-board crew perform? Exploring the museum makes it easy to experience the enthusiasm of the early pioneers. It starts with a big screen showing original footage of

hear and smell 19th Century textile machines working and meet skilled Millworkers with years of experience of working in the cotton industry. 4. The Great Iron Waterwheel and two Steam Engines Quarry Bank

engineers to gain an international reputation. He trained as a stone mason in Edinburgh and gained experience on contracts in London and Portsmouth before moving to Shrewsbury to refurbish the medieval castle

in St Petersburg owned by the government. In the early 1850s the young Nobel studied and gained experience of industry in France, Italy, Germany and the United States. He began to develop nitroglycerine

company in partnership with Richard Peacock (1820-89), and Henry Robertson (1816-88), a Scot who had experience in building railways, and had acquired interests in ironworks in the Wrexham area of North Wales

enlarge his understanding of engineering, working on the gas engine of J J Lenoir in Paris, gaining experience in a locomotive works at Strasburg, and at the factory of Joseph Whitworth (1803-87) in Manchester

Christopher Polhem was a polymath whose understanding of the natural world was based on experience gained in many other countries, and who influenced the technological development of industry throughout

to become one of Europe’s principal producers of radio receivers, making a million by 1932. From experience gained in maintaining X-ray apparatus for the combatant armies during the First World War, from

Embrach, Switzerland, and served his apprenticeship at a foundry in Zurich before gaining working experience in France, Germany, Italy and Austria. He moved to Pest in 1841where he was involved with the

as a maker of mathematical instruments in Glasgow, making a visit to London to gain professional experience in 1755-6. He gained the acquaintance of the celebrated Dr Joseph Black (1728-99) of Glasgow University

and produced few cannon. Ignace de Wendel, an artilleryman, and a member of a family with long experience in ironmaking, took direction of the project, and diagnosed that coke-blast iron was needed to

legacy was his influence on a generation of British mechanical engineers. Amongst those who gained experience in his workshop were William Muir (1805-88), James Nasmyth (1808-90), Richard Roberts (1789-1864)

was apprenticed to a shoemaker. About 1832 he left home, ‘on what was called the tramp’, seeking experience in his trade in other towns. He travelled to London by stage coach, then to Margate by steamer