resulted in the adoption of their ‘standard’ gauge of 1,435mm. He was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Exhibition in 1855 and honoured in Belgium and Norway among other countries.
age of 19 he took an apprenticeship with a seller of raw silk in Basel. After six years he went to Paris to work at an aniline dye factory, learning about the new chemical alternatives to natural pigments
Trades in Paris. By 1786, the company supplied 20,000 private houses as well as numerous public fountains. However, it suffered from rising costs and falling share prices and the city of Paris took back [...] Jacques-Constantin Périer was born in 1742 into a family of merchants in Paris. He was self-taught in mechanics and saw early on the potential of steam power for water supply and other functions. In 1777-8 [...] brother Auguste Charles Périer founded a pioneering joint-stock company, the ‘Compagnie des eaux de Paris’, which won the right to supply water to private homes, public fountains and fire hydrants in the
Mulhouse and, two years later, working as a colourist in Paris. In 1760 he opened a workshop for printing cotton fabric in Jouy-en-Josas, south-west of Paris, with partners from France and Switzerland and members [...] weaving factory until 1894. The name Oberkampf is preserved in the Rue Oberkampf and metro station in Paris.
was 17 he was taken by the Duke to be a gardener at his house in Paris. After 6 years there he took a post at great Tuileries garden in Paris. He was responsible for the orangery, where trees were grown in [...] found other uses for his material, including rockeries, pools and pavilions. He showed these at the Paris Exposition universelle of 1867 and applied for a series of patents for garden pots, pipes, reservoirs [...] bois’). By 1869 he owned large workshops. After the interruptions of the Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune, in 1873 he patented a design for bridges. In 1878, his vision for the material extended beyond
several Swiss lines. Over 20 passenger coaches are maintained; one by Chevalier, Chailus and Son in Paris for the Lausanne-Bercher railway dates from as early as 1865. There are also many examples of goods
acquired in poor condition, such as the Renault pickup dating from 1914 that Lundkvist brought from Paris and restored himself. An additional store contains vehicles that are still awaiting restoration.
Monnaie de Paris is the oldest continuing institution in France, created in the year 864 as a royal mint. Coins were made initially with hand-stamps, then from the 17th century with screw presses. The
, the Grand Palais is part of the 'Banks of the Seine' World Heritage site. It was built for the Paris world’s fair of 1900: the Exposition Universelle. Following an architectural competition, the building [...] The interiors were an exercise in Art Nouveau. The exposition site covered 112 hectares in central Paris and included specialist exhibitions, national pavilions and the Eiffel Tower. The Grand Palais was
of a thousand chimneys’. Cavrois specialised in high-quality fabrics for the fashion industry of Paris. When he built his house he departed from traditional bourgeois villa architecture and chose the French
sixfold between 1711 and 1831. In London, it increased by about 130% between 1800 and 1850, and in Paris - where industrialisation began later - it doubled. Nowhere was prepared for the onslaught, and slums
The Sewer Museum in Paris offers visitors the chance to discover ‘the city below the city’. Tours have been offered since the mid-19 th century of the sewers of the French capital. Parisian sanitation
years, a 300-ton barge would bring charcoal to fuel the kilns and take away the products, mainly to Paris. A large workshop built of timber with a tile roof has long benches beneath windows for working on
Cité de la Mer in 2002. It was built on the harbourside in 1933 for rail passengers arriving from Paris to board directly onto transatlantic liners. It also provided offices for shipping companies and a
photographs and examples of costumes made from silk and fabrics designed for the fashion houses of Paris. Part of the museum is devoted to the history of the Charlieu corporation of weavers, which is now
heritage of the car makers DS, Peugeot and Citroën. It is situated near Le Bourget airport north of Paris in a modern building of 6,500 m² – appropriately on the Boulevard André Citroën, which is named after
Since the Middle Ages, the zinc ore calamine has been processed into brass together with copper. In 1837, the Société Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies de la Vieille Montagne, or VM, emerged in Kelmis, B
c institute for map surveyors in Bavaria. He helped to establish similar institutions in Berlin, Paris, London and Vienna. In 1819 Senefelder wrote his book ' Vollständiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey'
Stockach and Engen and 1700-km away at Bucharest in Romania. At the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, Schiesser was awarded the Grand Prix for Innovation for its patented special products, including
