textile-dyeing workshop at Norrköping. At the age of 18 he began a three-year study tour to see textile industries in Sweden, Germany, Austria and other countries. For a time he managed a dyehouse in Bielitz in
industrial development. He founded or supported an extraordinary number of enterprises in diverse industries across four decades through his leadership of the investment bank Privatbanken. Tietgen was born [...] newly created Privatbanken. Within a few years, Tietgen was leading initiatives to invest in Danish industries. The bank held shares in many of the companies and Tietgen frequently held shares himself and took [...] efficiencies and create virtual monopolies. He did this in the sugar, chicory-coffee and spirits industries among others. In 1869, he joined with other bankers internationally to create the Banque de Paris
Novartis AG. Sandoz was born in Basel when the dye and bleach industries there were evolving rapidly alongside the Swiss textile industries. His father was a cloth merchant. At the age of 19 he took an [...] Basel in Switzerland is one of the world’s centres of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Edouard Sandoz created one of the leading companies in the sector in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
company was one of the biggest textile businesses in Europe. Liebieg also diversified into other industries. He bought an abandoned glassworks in Bihar (now Romania) in 1852 and took expert glassworkers
went on to design several sawmills and develop machines for the textiles, printing and boot-making industries among others. Nevertheless, he was imprisoned for debts and was released only after political
properties were nationalised. He emigrated to the United States, where he turned to the new plastics industries, founding the firm Minigrip to make plastic-bag zips. He died in New York in 1957.
ERIH member LVR Industrial Museum . Other members of the ERIH network, including LWL Museums of Industrieal Heritage , the Brandenburg/Havel Industrial Museum , Ferropolis Ltd , the BZI Berlin Centre for
‘tunnel experience’ and famous rail travellers on the ‘Train of Destinies’. ERIH aricles in 'Industriekultur' (de): Einst Strom und Wärme, heute Wissen. Das Kulturzentrum EC1 in Lódź Gewebte Geschichte
ancient city of Lutsk in north-west Ukraine is an important industrial centre with a wide range of industries, especially mechanical engineering, chemicals and food. The Museum of Science and Technology and
stories of the river and the Juliana Cana (completed 1935), shipping companies, the sand and gravel industries and pleasure boating. The changes in the navigation of the Maas are explored from early times to
for export. The company Eni now produces salt for food production, road gritting and chemicals industries. Guided tours take visitors through the workshops, carpenters’ shop, laboratory and Art Nouveau
In 1952, the factory was redeveloped by the German Democratic Republic as the state company Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde (IWL). It manufactured diesel engines at first but soon specialised in trucks and
potash is an important material for use as a fertilizer and in the chemical, textile and glass industries. Deposits of potash were discovered in the Alsace region at Wittelsheim in 1904. Development of
accused of disloyalty. Prisoners were mainly used in coal and ore mines, the timber and fishing industries, and on large construction sites, such as the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal in [...] especially in the chemical industry. From the 1950s, forced prison labour was used in virtually all industries. Notorious were the open-cast lignite mines, where extremely hard physical labour was required
The museum gives an insight into the living conditions of working people in the new industries of Finland from around 1900 until the 1960s. The forestry and papermaking company Tornator began a factory
Østerbro, where it cares for Denmark's national collections of the post and telecommunications industries, including the country’s largest stamp collection. Through sophisticated interactive exhibitions
Among the region's most striking landmarks is the Oberhausen Gasometer . This unique cultural venue with its spectacular exhibitions reveals its full atmosphere to visitors who let the glass panorama
While the term "Ruhr area" was not coined until the 1930s, industrial pioneers such as Franz Haniel, Mathias Stinnes, Friedrich Krupp and Friedrich Harkort had collieries and blast furnaces popping up
same neighbourhood became the largest inner-city industrial district in the GDR. In 2009, the Industriesalon Schöneweide association came into being here, researching the local industrial history, campaigning [...] creative service providers and a diverse cultural programme. ERIH article in German magazine Industriekultur "Zeugnisse einer beeindruckenden Blütezeit"
