industrialist in several sectors during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By the time of the First World War he employed some 30,000 people, principally in manufacturing armaments. Weiss came from [...] take over his father’s grain-trading company. In 1883, he and his brother Berthold established the first canning factory in Hungary with large buildings on Lövölde Square. It produced canned meat under the [...] Two years later he opened a textile factory at Ružomberok (now in Slovakia). By 1890, the arms industry was the most important branch of Weiss’s activities. He opened a subsidiary in Berlin to produce

studying minerals. He drew the first geological map of Bohemia. By 1824 he began consulting for governments and entrepreneurs. He was influential in the revival of the iron industry at Erzberg, west of Graz [...] Rudolph Ironworks at Ostrava, financed by Archbishop Rudolf of Olomouc, with the first coke-fired blast furnaces and first puddling furnaces in the Habsburg monarchy. This later became the Vitkovice steelworks [...] steelworks. Riepl showed exceptional insight into the potential for railways. In 1829 he proposed the first modern railway of the Habsburg monarchy in the visionary form of a complete network of 2,200 km from

locomotive, steam engines, machine tools and equipment for the textile industry. His ‘Salamanca’ of 1812 has been called the first commercially successful locomotive. He was born in north-east England in [...] at Leeds. Murray patented inventions for spinning wet flax that were a breakthrough for the linen industry. When Marshall installed a Boulton and Watt steam engine at his factory in 1793, Murray was put

in 1800. His father was a teacher but Carl Heinrich trained as a merchant. After the death of his first wife, Knorr met Amalie Henriette Caroline Seyffardt on a visit to Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, [...] produced some of the earliest commercial dried soups, laying the foundation for the convenience food industry. Knorr died in Heilbronn in 1875, shortly after launching his dried soup line. His sons continued

also operated foundries to support his engineering works. Honegger was drawn to liberal politics and first became mayor of Rüti at the age of 24. He was elected later to the Zürich Grand Council. He helped [...] which served his factory at Rüti. He set up a factory health insurance fund for workers in 1834, the first in Switzerland. He also supported the establishment of pension funds and the construction of workers’ [...] schools and churches. Honegger contributing significantly to the mechanization of the Swiss textile industry as well as to the growth of mechanical engineering in the country. Examples of Rüti looms are in

IBM Blue Gene. The Swiss computer industry is well represented, for example by the Lilith workstation created at the Zurich Polytechnic School, for which one of the first mice was developed at the Lausanne

Forced labour was first used on a significant scale during the First World War, when the German Reich employed nearly three million prisoners of war and civilians from abroad in industry and agriculture [...] prisoners of war from West and East, and concentration camp inmates were forced to work in German industry and agriculture. In August 1944, the civilian labour force alone amounted to 6 million people, a [...] women. After unsuccessful recruitment attempts, labour was conscripted in all occupied countries: First in the Czech Republic and Poland, then in Western Europe, with Russians and Poles eventually forming

inevitable side effect of the industrial boom. From about the middle of the 18th century, the chemical industry also played its part in the increasing destruction of the environment. The mass production of the [...] deposited in landfills, from where water-soluble elements leached into the groundwater. London's first sewers emptied into the Thames just behind the city, so that floods pushed the filth back into the [...] but the fact that the wind simply carried the pollution further away was largely ignored. In the first half of the 20th century, wars and economic crises hampered research into environmental degradation

paper industry. In 1689, Creutz was granted the privilege of building an ironworks by a mining college. At the turn of the 20th century, wood processing developed alongside iron production, first in the

industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South Wales, a key region in the "world's first industrial nation". Both these areas comprise a number of less significant industrial monuments - [...] most important industrial regions in Europe. more Regional Routes in Italy Minett Tour The steel industry shaped the landscape, factories and blast furnaces rose, and workers formed an unfamiliar kind of

of Naoussa was called the Manchester of the Balkans in the second half of the 19th century as the first city of northern Greece to industrialise. Its cotton spinning and weaving mills sold products across [...] 36-m chimney survive. The exhibition History Threads presents the history of the city's textile industry. Spinning and weaving machines are displayed alongside social material that ensures a focus on people

t Cosulich family. Together with the local shipbuilding industry, that family is at the centre of the MuCa - Museum of the Shipbuilding Industry . It is housed in a grand Viennese Art Nouveau building [...] Factory. Museum of Energy in Ponferrada, Spain, symbolises a new, promising technology: light as first application in the history of industrial power generation. Built in 1919, the thermal power station [...] than 2000 years of iron ore mining in Hesse. Today, the former Fortuna red ironstone mine is Hesse's first ERIH Anchor Point. Highlights such as the rope ride in the pit cage to a depth of 150 metres, the

the plastics industry. Local farming families traditionally made hair-combs from wood or bone as a winter occupation. This craft grew into an export industry in the 19th century and the first steam-powered [...] currently based in the Aragon Cultural Centre, preserves 16,000 objects and tells the story of local industry, the manufacture of combs and the technology of plastics. In Rue René Nicod, 1km away, is a model

frames and the history of the workers in this labour-intensive industry. The important topic of vocational training is also explored, from the first industrial college in the 19th century to the National Optical [...] clock parts using water-powered hammers on the River Bienne meant it was well prepared for the new industry. Since the late 19th century the area has produced glasses on a large scale. In a beautiful new

Jean Loiseau founded the first earthenware factory here. He used local clay and firewood and traded from the port of the River Sarthe. Others followed him into the ceramics industry. They focused on earthenware

First and foremost is the "Iron Heart of the Republic": the vast industrial complex and ERIH Anchor Point Dolní Vítkovice in Ostrava, the third largest city in the country, which in turn constitutes the [...] al cultural and educational hub is a dynamic process that is still ongoing. As early as 1836 - a first in the Habsburg Empire, to which the region belonged at the time - the blast furnaces of Dolni Vitkovice [...] a pioneering achievement: Following its extensive expansion and conversion in 1912-15, it was the first fully electrified mine in the Ostrava mining district. This was thanks to a brand new engine room

regions in the world. Oil, and later gas, was first extracted here in the 19th century. However, it was not until after the Second World War that the oil industry really took off, including in the town of [...] of Ivanić-Grad in western Moslavina. In 1949, the first of seven oil fields was discovered here, and the town and its surrounding area became known as "Little Kuwait" due to the number of pumps used. In

of the first multinational corporations and the largest zinc producer worldwide. The fascinating story of this rise is recounted in the Vieille Montagne Museum . Other centres of the zinc industry and zinc [...] The Sala silver mine , an ERIH site in Sweden, possibly represents the future of the European zinc industry. Although mining in Sweden's once richest source of silver, which was found in galena ore mixed

preferably an ERIH site – which they present to their fellow students during their stay in Berlin. The first week of the Summer School focuses on acquiring knowledge about industrial heritage in its broadest [...] Behrens-Ufer areal in the south-east of Berlin. A group of students developed a concept for “Sounds of Industry: Industrial Heritage x Club Culture” and two individual students engaged themselves in the topics

Anchor Point and World Heritage Site Grand Hornu . In Italy, the MuCa - Museum of the Shipbuilding Industry , also an ERIH Anchor Point, is worth a visit, as is Nikiszowiec in Poland, a suburb of Katowice [...] one of the most remarkable working-class estates in Europe. Not to forget the Ruhr area with its first workers' settlement Eisenheim in Oberhausen, the Margarethenhöhe in Essen and many more examples.