Franciscus Quirien den Hollander was a railway manager, notable in the Netherlands as the man who directed the re-building of the railway system after the damage caused to it during the Second World War [...] that showed the potential of railways for linking together the continent’s principal cities. Den Hollander was a mechanical engineer who gave many scholarly papers on locomotives and other aspects of railway [...] companies Baldwin, who built the bogies, and Westinghouse, who provided the electrical components. Den Hollander developed the system of frequent services at regular intervals that has become a characteristic
edition of A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent being a guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland , published in 1863, is a particularly good example [...] Darwin (1809-82) and Hermann Melville (1819-91). His first travel guide, A Handbook for Travellers to Holland, Belgium and the Rhine appeared in 1836 and was followed by guides to Greece, Turkey, Italy, France
The massive hydraulic engineering project started in 1865, cutting through Noord-Holland at its narrowest point and thus connecting the port of Amsterdam westwards with the North Sea at IJmuiden. The
follow the journey from textile or wood fibres to finished paper. A waterwheel is connected to ‘Hollander beaters’ for preparing the pulp. Hand processes are demonstrated of dipping a frame of wire mesh
Saar-Lor-Lux region (Germany, France, Luxemburg) as well as in South Wales (United Kingdom) and North Holland (Netherlands). They also clarify how even smaller industrial sites have changed the geographical
, its torpedo store, its galley, its escape hatches and its crew’s cramped living quarters. The Holland I was the Royal Navy’s first submarine, built to an American design at Barrow-in-Furness in 1901
, and travelled through Denmark to Germany, Carinthia, Hungary, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland and England, before returning to Sweden in 1755 through the Low Countries. He assumed responsible
locomotives and it was making 800 more every year. She built a new administration building at Holländischer Platz, purchased the Heinrichshütte steelworks near Hattingen and acquired iron ore and coal mines
of war materials for Germany and made massive profits even though his businesses in England and Holland were sequestrated. He advocated forced labour of prisoners. After the War, he raised foreign loans
protestant papermakers were expelled from there, Holland took over. There, around 1680, originated an important technical innovation, termed "Hollander beater", which replaced the stamping mills: basically
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foundry in Cornwall, worked in the pumping station "De Cruquius", today a museum. After three years, Holland's largest inland lake had become an expanse of land, but other infrastructure projects were more
agricultural. One of the earliest examples was the polder around the small village of Beemster in North Holland, not far from Amsterdam. There a lake, fed by water from the Zuidersee, had grown so large that it
