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

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

mining in the province of Bizkaia, thus transforming this sub-region into a European centre of heavy industry. A typical example is the blast furnace No. 1 of Altos Hornos de Vizcaya in Sestao, its setting [...] the Bilbao Maritime Museum and – further downstream in Getxo – by the Puente Colgante , the world's first transporter bridge. Getxo is also home to the mansions of wealthy tycoons, whose history is revealed [...] salt shovel and learn about salt harvesting. In Álava, industrialisation only gained momentum in the first half of the 20th century, the focus being on the oil, chemical, automotive and electrical industries

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

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.

vehicles still relied on horsepower, even for long distances. At Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry , located in the world's oldest surviving passenger station of 1830, the railway already entered [...] the Talyllyn Railway in Wales, which has been in operation since 1951 and claims to be the world's first museum railway. Thus, it is also a major milestone on the long journey to conserving the railway heritage

A key role is played by Freiberg, a major mining centre in the region and the first free mining town in Germany following early traces of silver in 1168. It is also home to the Bergakademie (Mining Academy) [...] Castle , which explores, with its passementerie workshop, a very particular branch of the textile industry. Another castle, Wildeck Castle in Zschopau, has a motorbike exhibition in honour of the Dane Jørgen

exciting impressions and experiences. A large part of this is due to the dedicated staff, for the first time including a geologist this year. Finally, Tim Schönwetter from the Geowelt Fortuna board emphasised [...] in the long term. On our way to becoming an information and documentation centre for Hesse's iron industry, however, a lot of money will still be needed, e.g. for what is truly a gem, the historicist engine

importance. Founded in 1784 by a young textile merchant Samuel Greg, Quarry Bank Mill was one of the first generation of waterpowered cotton spinning mills. Styal was chosen for a number of reasons, not least [...] 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 Mill and Styal Estate now offers

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 [...] (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 [...] 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

were some of the first products to be made here. The citizens of Altena had been working in the iron trade since the Middle Ages and it was no accident that one of them was the first to draw wire around [...] turnover. Altena and the neighbouring town of Iserlohn have remained important centres of the wire industry to the present day. The German Wire Museum exists since 1965. It was originally housed in a part

Portugal’s first museum of the paper industry is in the community of Santa Maria da Feira, south of Oporto. People in the region were engaged in the making of paper from the early eighteenth century, but

backdrop of a 19th century group of buildings: Ludwik Geyer's "White Factory", one of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an open air museum setting with a

exciting museum. Here visitors can find out more about the past history of the local textile industry at first hand. In the offices they can eavesdrop on the clerks. Later they can travel alongside the bales

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

the craft proceeded just as quickly. The first hand embroidery machines in the Vogtland still came from the Alsace and Switzerland, but Theodor Bickel was the first person to successfully produce machine [...] machine-embroidered tulle lace with satin stitches. In 1883, the first shuttle embroidery machines were set up in Plauen, which enabled the production of real tulle lace. Salesmanship was also not lacking. The [...] around 40 mostly small companies operating in the Vogtland. The history of the Vogtland textile industry, and Plauen lace in particular, has been presented in the 'Factory of Threads' since the end of

cotton textiles, communications, the local leather industry and the craft of processing fish skins to make fine-quality book covers and handbags. On the first floor are displays of shipbuilding, flour milling [...] The museum presents the history of industry, technology and everyday life in Schleswig-Holstein. Elmshorn became an important industrial centre in the nineteenth century, especially for the food industries

A wooden vat and two rollers inside a seamless wire: this is what the world's first paper machine looks like. Visitors to the Laakirchen Museum of Papermaking and Print can see its replica in action. The [...] trip exploring the history of paper production - from the forerunners of paper to the modern paper industry. The setting is provided by the unique ambience of the former Steyrermühl paper mill, hosting several

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

The town of Forssa was born from textile industry. The Swedish Axel Wahren (1814-1885) founded the Forssa cotton spinning mill on the edge of the Kuhala rapids in 1847. It was soon followed by a weaving [...] weaving mill, a yarn dyeing plant, and in 1861 Finland's first and for 60 years the only fabric printing plant. Initially, pattern designs and printing rolls were imported from other parts of Europe. The own [...] Forssa. During the 1950s and 1990s, hundreds of thousands of different patterns were produced. As the industry gradually waned, the factory properties were converted to other uses and the extensive archives