in 1846 and from Vienna to Ödenburg in 1847. From 1841 to 1853 he was operations director of the Vienna to Gloggnitz railway. In 1856 he became director of the western line from Vienna, the Kaiserin El [...] of the steam-operated Vienna-Gloggnitz Railway, which opened in 1841. In the following years he constructed other locomotive railways, from Mödling to Laxenburg in 1845, from Vienna to Bruck an der Leitha [...] craftspeople; his father was a master painter-decorator. He studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna. He began work under his former tutor, the railway pioneer Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner , on the

industrial chemist. He was born in Vienna where he father was director of the imperial printing office, and, after military service studied at the University of Vienna from 1878. In 1880 he went to Heidelberg [...] he was a student of Robert Bunsen (1811-89), and was granted his doctorate in 1882. He returned to Vienna where he worked largely on rare earth elements and succeeded in developing several new products for

Vienna’s Arbeitsgruppe des Verbandes der Eisenbahn freude (Working Group of the Association of Friends of Railways, or VEF) was formed in 1969, and formally organised from 1972. The association opened [...] opened a Museum of the Vienna Tramways at Ottakring station in 1972 after six years of collecting, but space was limited and in 1986 the collections were moved to the Erdberg station near the Stadium Bridge [...] restoration of historic buildings but re-opened from 13 September 2014. The museum is concerned with Vienna’s tramways, underground railways and buses, and their history is portrayed in 15 chronologically arranged

and in Vienna – where the Rothschilds founded the merchant bank "Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe" in 1855 – the manufacturing of rail cars and locomotives flourished in particular. The Vienna International [...] decisive role: starting in the mid-1850s, the Kaiser Ferdinand Northern Railroad provided services from Vienna to Prague via Brünn, with a branch to Galicia. The Südbahn, or "Southern Line", ran via Laibach to [...] first mountain railway, formed one section of this. The development of the polytechnic schools in Vienna and Prague into technical universities as early as 1815 proved to be a farsighted act. The indus

structural use of iron and steel. An example is displayed in the Technical Museum in Vienna. He remained in Vienna after resigning his post in 1882 and was buried in the city’s Döbling cemetery. [...] r. In 1837 he went to Austria where his first task was to plan the workshops of the railway from Vienna to Raaber, a private concern built in 1840-46, which was later known as the Ostbahn and extended

The collection of rolling stock at Schwechat, 12 km south-east of Vienna, is modest in size in comparison with those of the great national railway museums, but it represents a particularly interesting [...] the political exigencies of the Danube valley during the 20th century. The main line railway from Vienna to the present day Slovakian city of Bratislava [German: Pressburg] follows the north bank of the [...] that would be called an ‘interurban’ route in the United States. At either end of the line, 12 km in Vienna and 7 km in Bratislava shared the tracks of city tramways. The new section extended 50 km across

The technical museum in Vienna holds many artefacts of significance to the industrial history of Europe. It was formally established in 1908, with Dr Ludwig Erhard as its director, as part of the jubilee [...] 1795, with several nineteenth-century steam engines, including one of 1856 made by Vincenz Prick of Vienna. There is a particularly important collection of early electricity-generating equipment, including [...] collections of machine tools and sewing machines, and of early bicycles and motor cars made in Styria and Vienna. The building department includes models of early Garden City style developments, and there is also

hammer mill, is devoted to the history of water supply and to the achievements in constructing the Vienna spring water pipeline which was of significant importance for the water supply of city. Since 1910 [...] capital with 217,000 cubic meters drinking water daily. The SpringWater Museum documents how the second Vienna spring water line was built and illustrates the city’s water supply. Interactive multimedia displays

The municipality in Vienna in the period between the end of the Habsburg Empire in 1918 and the anschluss of 1938 expended much energy in the provision of housing for the city’s working class, and many [...] four arched passageways and crowned with six towers. Like all the large community buildings of Red Vienna, the Karl-Marx-Hof also had a whole range of infrastructure and community facilities, such as a mother's [...] set up in the rooms of Laundromat No. 2, whose permanent exhibition presents the history of "Red Vienna" from 1919 to 1934/45, municipal housing and subsequent facilities, educational and cultural work

Guntramsdorf is a small town with about 9000 inhabitants, south-west of Vienna on the edge of the Vienna Woods. The Museum Walzengravieranstalt (Museum of Engraving) opened in 1989 on the premises that

Strasshof lies 25 km east of Vienna and between 1908 and 1951 was the site of a large marshalling yard around which grew up a community of railwaymen living in houses in the Garden City style. The railway [...] railway museum, a branch of the Technical Museum in Vienna, occupies an 8.5 ha site that includes the buildings of a railway depot. It holds a collection of more than 50 locomotives as well as many passenger

The Museum was established in 2001 by the Association of Warsaw-Vienna Railway Enthusiasts. The exhibits include: devices and elements of the railway equipment, lamps and uniforms. There is also a collection

finally to Vienna. When he was 18 he ran away to the United States, where he spent two years working as a waiter, a musician, a language teacher and a canal boatman. When finally he returned to Vienna he studied [...] in the fields of art, architecture and music – he was particularly known for his support for the Vienna Secession movement. Among his eight children were the famous Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein

the Austrian Sudbahn. Karl Golsdorf was born at Semmering, studied at the Technical University of Vienna, and spent some time working for general engineering companies before becoming chief mechanical engineer [...] freight locomotive of which nearly a thousand examples were built, as well as passenger stock for the Vienna Stadtbahn, powerful rack locomotives for the Erzbergbahn and narrow gauge locomotives for mountain

the principal outlet to the sea of the Habsburg Empire. In 1857 the city gained a direct link to Vienna with the completion of the Sudbahn (southern railway) over the Semmering Pass, whose terminus was [...] includes 11 steam locomotives made by several Italian companies, and by works in Wiener Neustadt, Vienna-Floridsdorf, Berlin and Budapest, as well as diesel and electric locomotives and several railcars

from Greece, and its varied wares were sold to department stores in Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg, Paris, London and Vienna. It was also well-known for black glaze wares whose manufacture was introduced

employed more than a thousand people. Their porcelain was skilfully marked through outlets in Paris, Vienna and Budapest. Čžjžek left the porcelain company in 1875 after disagreements with his relations. He [...] European railway. Čžjžek was involved in banking, having been a founder of the Wiener Bankverein (Vienna union of banks) in 1869. He made a world tour in 1898 to promote the Empire’s exports and was su

was established in 1976 and now occupies a striking building designed by Delugan Meissl (b 1959) of Vienna which was formally opened on 31 January 2009. It displays more than 80 vehicles in spectacular settings

traded in spices at Kraków. After his father died when he was 13 he studied commerce and banking in Vienna then at the age of 18 returned to Kraków to manage the family business. He sought new industrial [...] states to study industrial organisation and innovation. He was a joint promoter of the Warsaw to Vienna railway project begun in 1835. He also had interests in a cotton spinning factory, a sugar factory

Paris to Cologne and from Vienna to Munich, and the following year gained favourable publicity by providing trains to take Parisians to the International Exhibition in Vienna. Lack of capital forced him [...] the Mann services between the principal cities of German, extending across the German borders to Vienna, Bordeaux, Ostend and to Orsova on the Danube, the eastern frontier of the Habsburg Empire. The company [...] airlines. In 1960 the company still had about 13,000 employees, with workshops in Paris, Ostend, Rome, Vienna, Munich, Athens, Irun, Madrid and Istanbul. The company was re-named the Compagnie Internationale