electric motors drive the counterbalance wheel. The wood-panelled wagons can each carry up to 25 people. The funicular was built as a means of connecting various parts of the rapidly growing city. Originally

labyrinth that vividly illustrates the tangled political and economic situation at the time of the People’s Republic of Poland. One thing is sure. At the end of the tour you will be able to enjoy a freshly

furnaces and rail transport and in the 1980s as the nationalized Metal Works of Ózd it employed 14,000 people. It closed in the 1990s. The museum has developed since 1971 in the magnificent factory school of

was given a purpose-built new home in 2001. An aquarium to show living cod was added in 2013. The people of the nearby Aveiro Lagoon were leaders in the fishing industry and the exploitation of cod stocks

contributions to the development of roller milling technology and electric traction, and employed 6,000 people by 1895. The foundry closed in 1964. The casting hall occupied by the museum. The museum illustrates

a primitive undershot waterwheel. The second building is a corn mill, which made flour for local people until the 1960s. It has a horizontal waterwheel with a direct drive to grindstones on the floor above

occupied a huge proportion of the industrial land along the estuary of Bilbao and employed around 6,000 people. Zubiría remained president of the company until his death 30 years later. He was awarded the title

who doesn´t know already, will be sure to find out about the "Klenkes", a form of greeting used by people in Aachen, by stretching out their little finger. It arose from the work of needle-makers, who used

the main railway station in Chemnitz, which still survives. By the early 1870s he employed 1,000 people. His machines were recognised internationally for their quality. Around three quarters were exported

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

Luftschiffahrts – the world’s first airline – began in 1910 and by 1914 it had carried nearly 40,000 people on 1,600 flights. In the First World War around 100 Zeppelins were used in aerial bombing. Ferdinand

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

Gabriel Maria Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the business people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking

Juan Maria Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking, mining and

employees. Designed by the architect A Nyberg, these were some of the first houses for working-class people to be constructed by the city authority. They had running water, ventilated pantries and kitchen

the Industrial Revolution, as the necessary labour force was now available. However, far too many people sought work in the burgeoning industrial cities, as mechanisation put millions of artisans out of [...] Moreover, those who did find work were paid a pittance, enough only for the cheapest accommodation. People slept five to a bed - and rented it out to strangers while they worked. Others lived in damp cellars [...] multi-storey blocks with up to six backyards, squeezing in more multi-storey blocks. Several thousand people lived in these estates. Hygiene in the working class districts was disastrous. With no sewers, rubbish

The steam centre aims to show how the power of the steam engine changed people’s lives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to convey their beauty and ingenuity. Steam engines were built in

the stables building where an attractive display tells how the railways changed society, liberated people and developed Whitehead from a sleepy hamlet into a stylish Victorian resort. The Edwardian Tea Room

west of England reveals modern machinery doing work which was once performed almost exclusively by people. From the middle of the 18th century onwards, and usually under harsh conditions, generations of

mass-produced in the USSR from 1946, and a Dornier Do 27 utility aircraft, which seated up to six people, which was manufactured from 1955, and was the first aircraft to be mass-produced in Germany after