smoke became a widespread phenomenon in the British Isles, eventually covering the country from Scotland in the north to Yorkshire and central England. Nevertheless, until the end of the 19th century,

One of the earliest and most prominent examples of a housing estate for workers is New Lanark in Scotland, an ERIH Anchor Point and Unesco World Heritage Site. Established as early as 1800, the site was

new chemical industries. Charles Tennant was born into a farming family in Ayrshire, south-west Scotland. As a boy he was apprenticed to a hand-loom weaver at Kilbarchan, west of Glasgow. This introduced [...] ownership of the company. Tennant was the chief promotor of one of the first public railways in Scotland, the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway (opened 1831), which allowed him to cut the costs of delivering

sulphuric acid, iron production and the invention of the steam engine. He helped to establish central Scotland as a heavy industrial region. Roebuck grew up in the city of Sheffield in northern England, where [...] It continued to be used for two centuries. In 1759 Roebuck started an ironworks near Falkirk in Scotland that was to become one of the most important of the era. He provided a quarter of the capital alongside

including the Rochdale and Lancaster canals in north-west England, the Aberdeen and Crinan canals in Scotland and the Royal Canal of Ireland. His maritime projects included commercial docks and harbours in [...] waters up to 20 m deep, and devised with Robert Stevenson the Bell Rock lighthouse on the east of Scotland, built in 1807-10. He pioneered steam-powered dredging and pile-driving and the use of diving bells

exporting them worldwide. Similar systems were made by other companies, such as Henderson of Aberdeen, Scotland. They became common in mines, quarries and construction projects for minerals and waste. Ropeways

experimental approach to improving practices became influential. His seed-drill was successful in Scotland before it was taken up in his homeland. Future machines for hoeing and seed-drilling developed from

Midlands. In 1910 he became managing director of the Arrol-Johnston Car Company at Paisley in southern Scotland and Dorothée, aged 16, took an apprenticeship in the company’s drawing office. At the outbreak of [...] father as a light, compact car with good storage space. The factory, at Kirkcudbright in southern Scotland, was staffed by female workers and apprentices. Pullinger also headed an engineering college for

coal-gas production and lighting. His father was a millwright and tenant of a corn mill in south-west Scotland. He attended local schools and learned about mechanics by working with his father. At the age of

produce a practical product for public use. Baird grew up at Helensburgh in Scotland and studied at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. He suffered from illness throughout his life and was

The museum’s building in central Edinburgh opened in 1866. It was built around a magnificent central hall of cast-iron columns and balconies. Six science and technology galleries opened in 2016 to exp

familiar face in the ERIH family, now represents the network in Scotland. He is deputy head of industrial heritage at Historic Environment Scotland, which includes a number of sites that hold ERIH membership

The port city in the north-east of Scotland, situated at the mouths of the rivers Dee and Don, is nicknamed Granite City because most of the older buildings in the city centre were built with granite from [...] from the surrounding mountains. In 1969 the first British oil field off the east coast of Scotland was developed - in 2003 more than 120 oil and gas fields were in production. Aberdeen developed into the

The museum is part of National Museums Scotland. It is sited at a military airfield about 30 kilometres east of Edinburgh. The collection was started very early – in 1909 – when the national museum acquired

Mile End Mill in 2016. It is run by volunteers. The town of Paisley was the most important place in Scotland for cotton spinning in the nineteenth century. It increasingly concentrated on making fine thread

on billions of vehicles and bicycles world-wide – the pneumatic tyre. Dunlop grew up on a farm in Scotland and studied to be a vet. In 1867, he set up a veterinary practice in Belfast that over the next

Pretender’ to the throne, Bonnie Prince Charlie). The rebellion ended with the Battle of Culloden in Scotland. Many Jacobite soldiers were executed. Holker and Moss were imprisoned in London but they escaped

Maritime Museum at Irvine and Dumbarton is home to Scotland's seafaring heritage. At two sites in the west of Scotland you can learn about Scotland’s importance to maritime history, including about the

originating from Spain, but also from many other European countries, including Germany, Belgium, Scotland, France, Holland, Hungary, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, there are two unique collections

The Museum of Lead Mining is set in the picturesque village of Wanlockhead, the highest village in Scotland. A visit to the Museum can include a trip down the 18th century lead mine, a drift mine set deep