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

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

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

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

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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

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

, 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

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

clogs, row and rows of cheese blocks. Zaanse Schans could come straight out of a picture book of Holland in the 17th and 18th century. Time seems to have stopped still here. The rhythm of work is determined

This museum in the north of Holland forms a twin milestone in Dutch industrial history. On the one hand it displays a huge number of original steam engines used in shipping and industry, most of which

Spain, but also from many other European countries, including Germany, Belgium, Scotland, France, Holland, Hungary, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, there are two unique collections to be discovered

already in the 17th century biscuit was produced as food for crew on the many ships that sailed from Holland. By baking the product twice, all water is distracted from it. As a result of it, the product stays

papermaker, Nicola Milano. It is located in a mill that retains its waterwheel, and exhibits include a Hollander first used there in 1745. There is an extensive library and the museum has many international links

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

activities take place in and around the vicinity of the museum in the Province of Limburg in the east of Holland. Visitors can experience life-like scenarios on 27 different working and residential sites and explore

port guarding the entrance to the Zuyder Zee (now the Ijsselmeer) at the northern tip of the North Holland peninsula. The waters of Den Helder were the assembly point for Dutch fleets trading to distant parts

built from 1879 at Veenwouden in Friesland, a boatbuilder’s workshop of 1885 from Marken in North Holland, with its attendant slip on which vessels could be drawn from or lowered into the water, together