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Regional Routes link landscapes and sites which have left their mark on European industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South Wales, a key region in the "world's first industrial nation"
The Völklinger Hütte (ironworks) in Germany’s Saarland, which was shut down in 1986, can be justifiably described as an industrial dinosaur. It extends over an area of 600,000 square metres and exemplifies
Dahlhausen was opened in 1977 and since then has grown continually. It is generally acknowledged to be Germany’s largest private collection of historical railway vehicles.
gallery and the furnace pond. The Luisenhütte is the oldest remaining complete blast furnace site in Germany. This was what an industrial plant looked like before the Ruhrgebiet stepped in to create an industrial
industrial heart of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century. This was aided by the construction of Germany's first passenger railway, which ran between Nuremberg and Fürth from 1835, and the development of [...] and pencil industries, as well as the production of bicycles and motorcycles, were also leading in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Museum of Industrial Culture, housed in a former screw factory
also a pioneer in finance and played an important role in the development of the Ruhr region in Germany. The big push began after independence in 1830. Brussels was modernised, and industrial firms settled
Siemens was the imaginative founder of an electrical company that came to be the largest in Germany, and that from its beginnings was an international concern. Born at Lenthe near Hanover, he trained as
Holyhead and the Lancaster and Carlisle. From the early 1840s he contracted for lines in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. He was responsible for two particularly spectacular railways through
machines operated by water-power and subsequently by steam engines. His methods were carried to Germany by Johann Brugelman, and to the United States by Samuel Slater (1768-1835) who for a time worked
the estalishment of plants in France at Dombasle near Nancy and at Tavaux in France Comte, and in Germany, Russia and the United States. The process was introduced to Great Britain in 1874 at Northwich by
was due largely to his son, Alfred Krupp. When the building of main line railways was proposed in Germany he adapted his works to roll rails and to build locomotives, rolling stock and structural ironwork
Societe Alsacienne des Constructions Mecaniques at Mulhouse, which after the war was incorporated in Germany. From an early stage in his career he was interested in applying the principle of compounding to [...] locomotive practice. De Glehn designed locomotives that were built in Alsace and employed on railways in Germany, France and Switzerland, and collaborated in the 1890s with Anatole Mallet, the pioneer of articulated
showed the potential for artificial waterways to stimulate economic growth, and the canals built in Germany, France, Belgium and elsewhere in subsequent decades were directly inspired by the precedents he
Berlin. His first experiments with an engine were in Paris in 1885, and he was granted a patent in Germany in 1892. In 1893 he published papers explaining the principles of the engine, and on 10 August 1893
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 in 1859-60, after it had first been prepared [...] mid-1860s Nobel began to create a multinational company, with factories at Krummel near Hamburg in Germany, opened in 1865, at Hurum in Norway, established in the same year, in Scotland, for which the site
taking advantage of a travel grant in 1834 to study in England. He declined offers of employment in Germany and settled in Manchester, working in the drawing office of the mechanical engineers Sharp, Roberts
studies in Great Britain and the United States and at the Technische Hochschule, Charlottenberg in Germany. He moved to the United States in 1889, where his first major innovation was Velox photographic paper [...] the General Bakelite Co in the United States in 1909, and sold it to Union Carbide in 1939. In Germany he collaborated with a company that treated railway sleepers with tar and had phenol as by-product
Europe that was financed by the various Swedish trade associations, and travelled through Denmark to Germany, Carinthia, Hungary, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland and England, before returning to Sweden
