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the start of a new era. This had a lot to do with inventions and factories and especially with the people who worked in the factories. The major burden of the Industrial Revolution – here and elsewhere –

steel mill. Bulldozers had been ordered onto the site to demolish it and then sent back again. Some people considered it to be a filthy eyesore, whilst others claimed it was an outstanding industrial monument

oxidised with the aid of fire. The fire refined the raw materials and gave work and bread to the people in the brickworks, lime furnaces, alum plants and mines – not to speak of serious illnesses in the [...] the old lime works, and the huge lime furnaces can still be seen on the road leading to the works. People still work here. During the week lorries transport heavy loads of material from the nearby quarries

mechanical production began to take over at the start of the 19th century, it attracted waves of people into the town in search of paid work. But the poor road communications and the difficulty firms

production including locomotives, turbines and damask cloths of linen, and employed thousands of people. The textile production ended in the 1970s, and industrial use of the last buildings by the rapids

10 million bricks, 30,000 square metres housing area and courtyard, 495 workers' flats for 1,748 people, running water on all floors, a nursery with 50 cots, a theatre for an audience of 1,000, a school

the air', 'giants of the skies': ever since the invention of airships they have sparked people's imagination. People are also the main focus of the Zeppelin Museum at Friedrichshafen. Who was this Count

presentation tells of the development of the industry in the town from the perspective of various people involved in the silk industry. The story of silk comes to an end as we consider how silk is used

the neighbouring arcade building. Information about the history of regional iron production and the people who shaped it can be found in the Krupp'sche Halle, which is also adjacent.

simultaneously raises two small bellows that emit air through two lip pipes: "Cuckoo!" For 300 years the people in the German Black Forest delivered handmade cuckoo clocks all over the world. That said, masses

and even a complete sheet-rolling mill from the middle of the 19th century. The museum tells of the people who came here from all over Europe to earn a living under harsh, and sometimes perilous, working

history of industrialisation in Nuremberg from 1800 to the present day. It tells the story of how people's working and everyday lives have changed from the invention of the steam engine to the present day

trade in London and Manchester. He was appointed manager in 1792 of a mill in Manchester in which 500 people were employed, and became a partner in the Chorlton Twist Co, which in 1799 acquired the mills at

the Americas, where it was grown and harvested under inhumane conditions on plantations by enslaved people who had either been forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade

d canal system of waterways on which there was an inclined plane of 1795-6, were visited by many people from overseas, amongst them Jean Jacques Rousseau. The Bridgewater Canal was not the first in Europe

branch of his brother’s company Siemens & Halske in London, which subsequently employed more than 2000 people in a factory built in 1866 at Charlton, in the south of the city, which made telegraphic equipment

powdered antimony. He also made trackwork for railways, and castings for bridges, and employed 371 people at the time of his death. The company continued under the direction of Andras Mechwart (1834-1907)

‘Knopf im Ohr’ (button in ear) was introduced in 1904. By 1907 the factory was employing some 400 people, together with 1800 women outworkers. Margarete Steiff died on 9 April 1909, but the company continued

Carl Zeiss, by origin a maker of lenses, was one of the leaders of the photographic industry in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, and in the twentieth century the successors to the company he foun