technology of what was once Europe's largest coal mine. What was it like when the rhythm of gigantic machines and conveyor belts determined the lives of 5,000 miners and their families? The "Portal of Industrial
around the life of Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railwayman who by chance secures employment in a coal mine called Le Voreux (the voracious beast), and La Bete Humaine (the beast in man) of 1890, a tale of [...] of tortured love, which focuses on the life of a railway engine driver. Zola visited coal mines in the course of writing the first, and made several footplate journeys while researching the background for
family business with his father and his older brother Juan Maria . The family invested in iron-ore mines and in 1846 built a blast furnace at a forge they acquired at Guriezo in Cantabria. After their father
and Valencia to consolidate cooperation. The family invested in iron-ore mines in Triano and Somorrostro, which they leased to mine operators. In 1846 they built a blast furnace at Guriezo in Cantabria After [...] blast furnaces fuelled by coal. To further integrate their operation they made contracts to lease mines and a railway concession with international companies in which they took shares: Orconera and Fra
then, in May 1946, to the Oakdale Training Centre at Blackwood in South Wales, where he trained as a miner. He met his Welsh wife at Ma’s Café at Blackwood, one of many similar coffee houses in the Coalfield [...] been set up by the Italians who settled in the Coalfield two generations earlier. Like most Polish miners he encountered some initial hostility, but soon became an accepted member of the community. He qualified
the remarkably genuine sound of crackling fire and bursting rock. The Rammelsberg Museum and Visitor Mine near Goslar stages 1,000 years of mining history; from the age-old method of mining ore by laying [...] and zinc ores. All this is accompanied by vivid sound effects of everyday working conditions. The mine was inscribed as a World Cultural Heritage site in 1992 – along with the former Imperial Town of Goslar
the wage, children for even less. Children were in demand mainly for their size and agility: in the mines they had to pull coal-laden wagons through the lowest tunnels on all fours, in the spinning mills [...] from noise, dirt and pollutants: Tiny cotton flakes in the air in spinning mills, mineral dusts in mines, toxic chemicals in ironworks and chemical plants. Workplace accidents were common. Many men were [...] called for industrial action. In the 1810s, handloom weavers in Glasgow, spinners in Manchester and miners in Northumberland went on strike. In 1824 they succeeded in overturning the ban on coalitions, which
as a coal miner and worked for three years at the Concordia Mine, Oberhausen. Three years later he joined a German company, Schachtbau Thyssen, that specialised in sinking shafts for coal mines, and which [...] provided in Nissen Huts, in whichfour men shared each room. The company gradually recruited more Welsh miners, and the Germans began to integrate with local communities. In 1956 he began to work on a contract [...] contract at Brynlliw Colliery at Grovesend near Gorseinon. He lodged with an elderly widow of a miner who filled a tin bath with water prior to his return from his first day’s work, and was surprised to learn
founder Isaac Wilkinson (1695-1784) and the younger brother of John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the most prominent ironmaster of the British Industrial Revolution. Both William and John Wilkinson grew up in Cumbria
being put up in the restored conservatory. In the house itself, open for tours, there are displays of miners banners from many of the local closed pits.
further coal mine at Petit-Rosselle. De Wendel was administrator of the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est and he negotiated for branches to connect the new works to the company’s coal mines and coke works
institute for mine exploration at Glogovica. In 1903 he became the owner of mining rights at Bor in the east of the country. After spending so much on exploration he could develop the mine only by creating [...] one fifth of the shares himself. The mine at Bor became the largest copper producer in Europe and continues to operate today. Weifert went on to explore gold mines successfully and operate a porcelain [...] began to be interested in mining, at first because he wanted coal for his breweries. He opened a coal mine at Kostolac, about 50 km east along the Danube. This attracted him to other mining opportunities and
bankruptcy in 1849. (The cobalt works and mines operated until 1893 and became a museum in 1971.) In 1835 Benecke and Wegner had purchased the Hassel iron ore mine and blast furnace in southern Norway, which [...] 1776, this was among the world’s largest producers of cobalt blue pigment. It consisted of cobalt mines, calcining kilns, a works to process the dyestuffs and a glassworks. Cobalt blue was exported widely
ceramics industry. He was active in the promotion of turnpike roads, and of canals, particularly prominent of the Trent & Mersey Canal that bordered Etruria. Through the Lunar Society of Birmingham he was
Revolution. He was born in Greenock, the son of James Watt (1698-1782), a prosperous merchant and prominent citizen of the Scottish port. He had a talent for mathematics, and trained as a maker of mathematical
could be exploited: in 1712, the ironmonger Thomas Newcomen installed the first steam engine in a mine to pump water out of the shafts. This made it possible to reach coal at greater depths – but at the [...] g company. While Newcomen's original steam engine was used for a long time to raise water in the mines - an example of the not always rapid course of industrialisation - Watt's perfected model also conquered [...] is evidence of investment from the proceeds of the slave trade in the nearby northern English coal mines and ironworks, as well as in railway construction and the Welsh slate industry. There were also profits
which opened in 1884 and ran from the booming coal mines in the Donez Basin via Yekaterinoslav (later Dnipropetrovsk, today Dnipro) to the iron-ore mines of Kryvyj Rih. In the 1860s and 70s, an enormous [...] enormous industrial landscape took shape in this region, termed “Donbass” for short, as ever more coal mines, iron works and settlements were established. The heart of this region was the city of Donezk, which
and to Sweden, Poland and the Baltic states. The Finnish lift (elevator) manufacture Kone uses the mines for testing and is in the process of installing Finland's fastest elevator as part of the visitor
engines for draining mines while staying near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He returned to Sweden in 1726 and the following year erected the country’s first steam engine at the celebrated iron ore mine at Dannemora. It [...] It was unsuccessful, but the engine house still stands and is the focus of visits to the mine and to nearby Österby Bruk. Having returned to Sweden Triewald gave public lectures modelled on those of D
