or the 6 kV switching station, today housing an exhibition on the electrification of the mining industry. Down in the mine, visitors will be witnessing, among other things, spacious passages with brick

Emil Skoda was one of the engineers who laid the foundations for the prosperity of heavy industry in the Czech lands in the early twentieth century. He was born, the son of a physician who was active in

The logging of trees in the forests is one of the old industries of the Slovak mountains. The construction of narrow gauge railways (most are 76 cm) that could go into the mountains helped to increase

museum has developed since 1971 in the magnificent factory school of 1895. Much of it is devoted to industrial heritage. As well as equipment, documents and photographs, it is rich in models, many of them made [...] and culture, crafts, the history of the school and other subjects. Outside are exhibited large industrial objects including a railway locomotive from 1898, rolling mills, a pillar-drill and a stationary

living cod was added in 2013. The people of the nearby Aveiro Lagoon were leaders in the fishing industry and the exploitation of cod stocks off Newfoundland and Greenland. The museum preserves a selection

stimulated the growth of many industries, corn mills, oil mills, the manufacture of iron tools and above all of paper making. Such was the prosperity of these industries that the population of Mesnay between [...] manufacture cartons have been preserved and some are demonstrated. From the late nineteenth century industry in the area was dominated by the company Hétier Père et Fils (Hétier & Son) established in 1888

high-tech: tim, the young Augsburg Textile and Industrial Museum, which opened in January 2010, connects the rapid development of the local textile industry with an exciting trip into the history of fashion

international scene of industrial heritage, as well as in the expanding field of industrial tourism. The Republic of Genova and then the city of Genova has had merchant, banking, and industrial primacy on the [...] the II World War - for the establishement of important industries such as Piaggio and Ansaldo. Genova is traditionally an industrial city: its industry is characterized by the presence of large companies [...] knowldge of industrial heritage and culture in Genova and Liguria. The organization’s goal is to activate and promote projects able to enhance studies in the field, and knowledge of industrial architecture

only post-industrial settlement in Europe that has been 95% preserved. Żyrardów, Poland’s former flax capital, delights visitors with the richness unexpected in such a small town of its industrial sites.

Tomás de Zubiría e Ybarra (later Count Zubiría) was one of the leading industrial entrepreneurs in Spain in the early twentieth century and president of the country’s largest company, the steel conglomerate [...] other steel companies, La Vizcaya and La Iberia. Together, they occupied a huge proportion of the industrial land along the estuary of Bilbao and employed around 6,000 people. Zubiría remained president of

families? The "Portal of Industrial Heritage" translates this history to the entire Ruhr district: multimedia stations effectively showcase 18 former flagships of large-scale industry - all under one roof

social history, and on scientific observation of working and living conditions in industrial areas. For the industrial historian the two most important of more than 30 novels are Germinal of 1885, which [...] Zola depict with startling clarity the inhuman and oppressive aspects of working class life in industrial Europe in the nineteenth century. Zola was born in Paris, the son of a naturalized Italian engineer

Most of the steam locomotives in the collection were built before 1939 either for shunting at industrial premises, many of them for sugar factories, or for working freight trains on main lines. One of

production in Stolberg, has made the town well-known around the world: the needle and haberdashery industry. The Zinkhütter Hof Museum looks back from today´s modern production methods to the old days of

It is one of the landmarks in the history of the mighty steel industry, which provided employment and livelihoods for many generations of residents of Katowice up until not so long ago. The Zinc Rolling

machine-tools at Chemnitz in Saxony in the 1840s. He is seen as the father of Germany’s machine-tool industry, which grew to lead the world. Zimmermann was brought up at the city of Pápa in Austria-Hungary [...] He arrived eventually at Chemnitz in Saxony, which was already an important centre for the cotton industry and the manufacture of textile machinery. In 1841 he took a job at the Hauboldsche textile machine [...] Zimmerman decided, at the age of 28, to enter this field himself. He visited Britain to see the industry in person and buy examples of the equipment. Soon afterwards he began making lathes, drills, saws

Stromversorgung durch das 1919 gebaute Wärmekraftwerk zunächst nur der Kohlebrikettfabrik und anderen Industrie- und Verwaltungseinrichtungen des Minero Siderurgica de Ponferrada (MSP). Dieser Konzern wird in

Fahrgestelle eines der ältesten Automobilhersteller der Welt. Dass es neben Kohle und Stahl noch andere Industrie- und Gewerbezweige gab, belegen zwei weitere ERIH-Standorte. Das Schieferbergwerk Flaschar ist eines

Auch wenn der Begriff „Ruhrgebiet“ erst in den 1930er Jahren entsteht, lassen Industriepioniere wie Franz Haniel, Mathias Stinnes, Friedrich Krupp und Friedrich Harkort bereits seit der Mitte des 19.

Flugzeuge zeigen. Demgegenüber schlägt der zweite Ankerpunkt eines der dunkelsten Kapitel deutscher (Industrie-)Geschichte auf: das nationalsozialistische System der Zwangsarbeit, basierend auf massenhafter