Chain Forge Museum. Fröndenberg (D) Chain Forge Museum. Fröndenberg (D) Cromford Mills WHS. Cromford (GB) Cromford Mills WHS. Cromford (GB) Culture Brewery. Berlin (D) Culture Brewery. Berlin (D) Dolni [...] Līgatne Culture and Tourism Center. Dance at Historic Paper Mill. Līgatne (LV) Līgatne Culture and Tourism Center. Dance at Historic Paper Mill. Līgatne (LV) Margarethenhütte Electrical Porcelain Museum [...] Völklingen (D) Völklingen Ironworks WHS. Völklingen (D) Walcownia Zink Rolling Mill. Katowice (PL) Walcownia Zink Rolling Mill. Katowice (PL) Westphalian Salt Experience. Bad Sassendorf (D) Westphalian Salt

Užice got electric lighting, while the weaving mill was the first industrial facility in Serbia to use electricity to operate its machines. The weaving mill grew to be a large textile factory. Some 400 [...] regarding the Đetinja River water utilisation was accepted by the management of the Užice Weaving Mill Joint Stock Company. Stanojević was responsible for the introduction of the first electric lighting

Many of the participating monuments are mostly not accessible to the public and open exclusively on this weekend. Among the highlights is the electrically operated Bergedorf rotary crane, recalling th

south of the border. The silk museum was established in 1953 in a seventeenth century lakeside reeling mill and has some claim to have been the first museum of industrial archaeology in Italy. It was established

heart of Pagoeta Natural Park, next to the Iturraran homestead, the Agorregi Ironworks and flour mills, plus the infrastructure of reservoirs, dams and canals. This faithfully reproduces the 18th century [...] raw materials to produce iron were: iron ore, charcoal and river water. On the other hand, in the mills flour was obtained by grinding wheat and corn grain. Visitors can watch the enormous hammer working

landscape resulted from the iron smelting activities of Ajuria & Urigoitia, one of the first steel mills in the country. Visitors have the chance to see the state’s first electric induction furnace and the

cars are normally on display including the first Alfa Romeo, a 24 hp car of 1910, winners of the Mille Miglia, and Grand Prix cars that were driven by Juan Fangio (1911-96). Interactive systems enable

in use until 1952. It was then preserved in order to retain a water-powered Pochwerk , or stamping mill, of the kind depicted in Georgius Agricola’s De re metallica . The building was opened as a museum [...] 1994. A new reception building was completed in 1999. Visitors are able to see the restored stamping mill and associated ore dressing plant, and to go more than 200 m. into the enlarged show tunnel, which [...] established in 1993-94 includes vehicles from underground railways, drilling rigs, flotation trays, ball mills and other heavy equipment used at the mine and the dressing plant. The museum is the starting point

are still in working order and are used for show demonstrations. The exhibition in the old rolling mill deals with 150 years of iron and steel on the Rhine and Ruhr. It’s obvious that technology played

river Kymijoki. It was built as a mill for manufacturing cardboard in 1872. It became a museum in 1997. The most important exhibit is the original continuous board mill, the first in Finland, which was [...] apartments at Reunalinja 7 have been furnished to show living conditions at different periods and the mill’s technical drawing office is displayed at Pasilantie 1.

waterwheels in Europe at the time. They were used to drive all sorts of machinery ranging from paper mills, oil mills and sawmills to forging hammers. Later on, huge high-power wheels - some made of iron – supplied [...] engines. Windmills dominated the flat lands of northwest Europe. In the 18th century around a thousand mills were standing alongside the banks of the River Zaan, near the trading centre of Amsterdam. They were [...] areas. Around the middle of the 18th century people a small wind wheel began to be added to the mills: this enabled the blades to turn automatically in the direction of the wind. At the end of the century

constructed in 1892/3 on instructions from August Thyssen who wanted to supply water to his rolling mills. In 1912 ownership passed to the newly created Rhineland-Westphalian Waterworks Company (RWW). Until

Brook, a tributary of the River Derwent. The mill was extended, and in 1780 Arkwright bought land for another mill complex powered by the Derwent itself. Masson Mill, as it came to be called, was built in brick [...] built a five-storey, water-powered cotton-spinning mill, in which he had a 20% share, which attracted attention from all over Europe. The Cromford Mill site, which probably began to work in 1774, was powered [...] brick, in contrast with the plain local stone of Cromford Mill, and, with Venetian and Diocletian windows and a cupola housing a bell, had the appearance of a country house. Arkwright built terraced houses

firing it in a kiln at a high temperature. The material from the kiln was mixed with gypsum and then milled again. He developed his invention by experimenting with the older ‘hydraulic cement’, which was made

workers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and a jetty from which slate was exported at Black Mill Bay. The centre is the venue for an annual slate festival.

modern paper industry. The setting is provided by the unique ambience of the former Steyrermühl paper mill, hosting several museums and exhibitions side by side. Visitors are free to collect hands-on experiences

as well as energy-intensive operations such as an aluminium smelter, a tube factory and a rolling mill. The importance of Azerbaijani oil started to decline in the 1950s as new fields were discovered in

heritage. The Ballyana Museum is located in the former production hall of the Bally ribbon weaving mill. Here visitors can get an authentic grasp of an industrial labourer’s working day in the past. The

plastics of the first half of the twentieth century. The museum at Williton, located in a former water mill, has the largest collection of vintage plastic artefacts in Britain, including telephones, radios

Gunpowder mills were established in 1794 on the banks of the River Lee at Ballincollig, 8 km west of Cork, by Charles Henry Leslie and John Travers. The company became one of the largest industrial enterprises [...] works closed in 1903 but the extensive remains of canals, water-power systems, twelve incorporating mills and other structures are displayed in the 52 ha Ballincollig Country Park.