plant operation and electricity transmission. This state-of-the-art equipment had to be shipped from Vienna and Budapest to Užice. The king of Serbia, Aleksandar Obrenović (1876-1903), laid the foundation

to build a channel providing enough water to operate the watermill. Siemens Schuckert Werke from Vienna submitted the best electrical works offer at the tender held on 28 January 1906. The transmission

the lake from which it takes its name. Motive power is provided by three steam locomotives built in Vienna in 1899, and by a fourth built to the same original design in 2005. The Zillertalbahn was built to

Europe in the early nineteenth century. Antrobus was one of the British delegates at the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15. Similar carriages were used by wealthy young men undertaking the Grand Tour. Other vehicles

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

immigrated from Ukraine. His father had a business as an iron importer. After studying commerce at the Vienna Exportakademie he returned to set up business as an importer of sheet steel and set up Romania’s

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

son of a railway engine driver, and educated in the same city. After several jobs, including one in Vienna, where he failed to settle, he set up an iron foundry with August Ritter in 1871. His partner proved

from 1878 on, Bosnia-Herzegovina was a (remote) part of the Habsburg Empire, and the government in Vienna initiated the construction of further railway lines, new roads and bridges. Sarajevo saw the construction [...] this process was the carpet factory founded in Sarajevo by Philipp Haas in 1879. Haas commissioned a Vienna museum director to create designs, and women weavers in Bosnia wove them into carpets that were

steamers to Constantinople (today Istanbul). Starting in 1888, the Orient Express offered services from Vienna via Belgrade and Sofia to Constantinople, incidentally linking Bulgaria’s two great urban centres

Mining Museum at Sopron, 210 km W of Budapest on the eastern slopes of the Alpes, and 70 km south of Vienna holds the largest collection of mining artefacts in Hungary. It is located in one of the Baroque

Franz Josef Gerstner in 1807, but was realised by his son Franz Antonin Gerstner, a professor at Vienna Polytechnic, who studied similar lines in England. The line was converted to steam operation in 1870

Theodor von Cramer-Klett (born Theodor Cramer) was born in Vienna and initially worked in his father’s soap business in that city. Later he served an apprenticeship in banking and trading with the Lümel

monarch also ruled as King of Croatia, fell under the dominion of the Habsburgs. However, the rulers in Vienna used the Hungarian lands primarily as a source of agricultural products – and Croatia was among its

than 30 standard gauge steam locomotives. One of the oldest, No 310.076 was built at Floridsdorf, Vienna, in 1899, worked until the 1950s, and stood on a plinth at Ceské Budĕjovice until it was removed

industrialisation was firmly established: new railways linked the centres of Bohemia and Moravia with Vienna, traffic on the Elbe River grew and exports to Austria, Germany and the less-industrialised neighbouring

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

fahr(T)raum means ‘driving dream’ and ‘driving space’. Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951) began his career in Vienna at the age of 18 and became one of the world’s most prolific and influential automobile designers

with factories in Wiener Neustadt. Karl Flanner was a member of the board of trustees of DÖW, the Vienna-based documentation centre for the resistance movement against Nazism in Austria. He was also involved

watchmaker, selling watches across Europe. He was inspired to make a harmonica after buying one in Vienna. The principal company in the town was founded in 1857 by Matthias Hohner (1833-1902), a clockmaker