tradition and innovation go hand in hand is demonstrated by tours of operating plants in a variety of industries, ranging from state-of-the-art paper machines in Diemelstadt-Wrexen and a large crushing plant [...] structures and wind turbine applications of the Peikko Group in Waldeck-Höringhausen. The Days of Industrial Heritage for children and young people feature a very special programme called "Blue Sunday Junior"

'head' of a world-class industrial ensemble" epitomises industrial culture as heart and soul of the region. A film documentary retraces the history of this extraordinary industrial site, with its striking [...] Another priority in the Rhine-Main region is aviation. In 1908, Germany's first airfield was built here, followed by the first international aircraft exhibition one year later. Other prominent examples [...] Neu-Isenburg and Frankfurt Airport. As an artistic highlight of the Days of Industrial Culture, various artists will transform the industrial heritage into "sound art". Programme brochure

Joint Stock Company. Stanojević was responsible for the introduction of the first electric lighting and construction of the first hydroelectric power plants in Serbia. He selected and ordered the equipment [...] St. Ilija’s Day, 2 August 1900, Užice got electric lighting, while the weaving mill was the first industrial facility in Serbia to use electricity to operate its machines. The weaving mill grew to be a

coincidence. This is where company records are stored that bear witness to almost 100 years of industrial production in various sectors (railway, agriculture, aviation, food machinery). They tell the story [...] Second World War, producing mainly sugar, locomotives and dockside cranes. Today, the 26-hectare industrial site, which ceased operations in 2008, is the focus of an innovative urban regeneration programme

cities", "Industrial landmark Peter Behrens Building", "Adler Works: concentration camp - factory - historical site", "Frankfurt Main Cemetery - Walking in the footsteps of famous figures in industry, politics [...] pervades all events: industrial heritage is an integral part of regional and local identity. A prime example of this is the programme "The Opels, the Opelers and the Opel: Car - Industry - Culture in Rüsselsheim" [...] traces they have left in the image of the town to this day. Programme of the Rhine-Mine Days of Industrial Heritage

At the end of the 19th century, Berlin became an industrial centre. Apart from an increase of the number of factories there was a significant rise in population with more people moving back and forth in [...] underground electric tunnel railway to transport people and material between the two locations. In the First World War, the tunnel was used for ammunition production, and in the Second World War, the employees

1953 in a seventeenth century lakeside reeling mill and has some claim to have been the first museum of industrial archaeology in Italy. It was established by the Swiss silk manufacturers, the Abegg family

buildings in the city centre were built with granite from the surrounding mountains. In 1969 the first British oil field off the east coast of Scotland was developed - in 2003 more than 120 oil and gas [...] ng, fishing and port history. It is also the only museum in the UK dedicated to the oil and gas industry. The highlight of the exhibition is the true-to-scale and detailed reproduction of the Murchison

the world’s first Industrial nation. And as water continued to cascade through the centuries, the industries continued to flow through time, and Aberdulais established its place as an industrial centre. Discover [...] harness an ice age landscape and breath-taking waterfalls, to shape the industries that changed the world….Aberdulais – An Industrial Revolution, powered by water since 1584!

Automobili Torino, usually abbreviated to FIAT. He became managing director of the company when its first plant opened the following year, during which 35 men produced 24 cars. Within six years Fiat was making [...] represented 4 per cent of Italian gross national product, and it employed 3.1 per cent of the nation’s industrial workforce.

ON THE INDUSTRIALISATION OF AGRICULTURE Listen The Industrial Revolution was preceded by the first steps in a long-term 'agricultural revolution' that began in Britain in the 18th century and continued [...] Briton John Fowler was the first to use a steam engine to pull a plough instead of a team of animals. Towards the end of the 19th century, George Stockton Berry developed the first self-propelled combine harvester [...] as it had been in industry. Liebig's discovery, published in 1840, that the minerals nitrogen, potassium salt and phosphorus are essential for plant growth made it possible for the first time to produce

of Kihniö around 100 km north of Tampere, houses the only museum which exhibits the history of industrial-scale peat production in Finland. The extraction and use of peat for energy production began in [...] vicinity of the railroad network. Many processes and procedures used in the production of peat were first tested here. This also includes some not so successful methods, including the use of heavy Russian [...] of exhibits on the production and use of peat, as well as the history and development of the peat industry. The environmental management of peatlands is also addressed. Outside the museum, around sixty machines

The industrial landscape resulted from the iron smelting activities of Ajuria & Urigoitia, one of the first steel mills in the country. Visitors have the chance to see the state’s first electric induction [...] induction furnace and the first blast furnace of Euskadi. Situated at the entrance to the Aizkorri-Aratz Natural Park they form one of the most beautiful industrial landscapes of the Basque country with dams [...] dams, forests, industrial warehouses … Another part of this landscape is the network of canals once used to supply the water needed for the generation of energy and used in the manufacturing process in the

Soviet Union’s economic model. Landholdings and businesses were nationalised, heavy industry was massively expanded. The first train went into service between Durrës and Pequin in 1947, and a rail network emerged [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF ALBANIA Listen Albania’s economic history is characterised by a fundamental contradiction: the country has valuable natural resources, fertile soil and enormous hydroelectric [...] extremely low. Following World War I, Italian companies began extracting petroleum; beyond that, industry consisted of a handful of factories for producing foods and processing cotton, tobacco and wood

(or tourist) industry, hotels, wayside inns, motorway service stations, are readily recognised as part of the industrial heritage. One of the most significant innovations in the industry in the twentieth [...] in Altena in 1903. He first put forward his vision of youth hostels in 1907, and opened the first of them in Burg Altena in 1912. After serving in the German army during the First World War he founded the [...] proliferation of youth hostels providing inexpensive accommodation for young people on their travels. The first such hostel was established in the twelfth century Burg Altena (Altena Castle) which towers above

museum, which opened in 2007, occupies a new building in the centre of Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne. The first floor traces the discovery of aluminium and its manufacturing process, from the crushing of the ore [...] to the finished product. The second floor explores the evolution of working conditions and the industry’s impact on health and the environment. The collection includes art, toys, household appliances and

Tampere is the principal industrial city in Finland which prospered in the nineteenth century with the growth of the textile industry. Amuri is a working class district in the city which in 1900 had a [...] decided that it would be more appropriate to create a museum within a block of existing houses, the first section of which opened in 1975. Three courtyards portray social life in Tampere in three distinct

political role for the first time. His son Pau Xavier founded Andorra’s first, albeit short-lived, museum in Ordino in 1903. Tobacco farming emerged as a further important industry at the end of the 17th [...] government came from the family. Andorra tentatively began to open up in the first half of the 20th century, when the first roads to Spain and France were constructed. Even today, the country is entirely [...] financial institutions opened their doors, and the construction of the first ski lift in 1957 signalled the arrival of a booming new industry: tourism. Fuelled by a virtually complete exemption from customs

develop awareness of seafood and to show the significance of the canning industry in Galicia. The museum has four main sections. The first portrays the pioneering era, the preservation of sardines from the late [...] ANFACO’s Research and Technical Department in 1949, and features a reconstruction of the department’s first laboratory. The final section is a range of facilities including an auditorium and reception rooms

This industrial museum occupies a huge complex of red-brick buildings that cross to an island over rapids on the river Kymijoki. It was built as a mill for manufacturing cardboard in 1872. It became a [...] a museum in 1997. The most important exhibit is the original continuous board mill, the first in Finland, which was made by Heinrich Füllner in Lower Silesia and continued in operation until 1978. The machine