factory making locks. He trained as a locksmith until he was around 19, when he decided to go west to Vienna and Munich seeking new opportunities. He arrived eventually at Chemnitz in Saxony, which was already

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

large collection of vehicles made and used in the town, the oldest of which is a horse tram built in Vienna in 1869. A 2-axle steeple cab electric locomotive used to haul freight wagons on the network is also

(then Troppau), in the present-day Czech Republic, who had worked with Otto Wagner (1841-1918) in Vienna. The Tietz family were forced to flee from Germany in the early years of the Third Reich, and were

Thornton built the first water-powered cotton factories in Austria – at Hernals and Pottendorf near Vienna. Investment came from the 'Leih und Wechsel Bank' created by Prince Joseph II Schwarzenberg. From

mountain town near Turin that was a centre of silk manufacturing. Max Gütermann created a company in Vienna to manufacture silk thread for sewing in 1864. Because he needed soft water, he opened a factory

‘pater-noster’ from Borzas, and the first steam engine used in present-day Romania, brought from Vienna in 1853 to work a combined corn- and oil-mill, as well as several steam pumping engines from met

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

From Vienna to Trieste in 13 hours and 4 minutes - in 1857, when the last track of the Südbahn was laid, this was considered a sensation. Until then, crossing the Alps had been a challenging and time-consuming

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

leather, wood and paper remained dominant. The government in Vienna determined where rail lines were built. The Southern Railway from Vienna to the Adriatic had priority, connecting Celje and Ljubljana

metals. In the mid-16th century, Hungary became part of the Habsburg Empire, and the monarchs in Vienna used their new domains mainly to supply food for the empire. Mountainous, poorly accessible Slovakia [...] The first railway line, from Bratislava to nearby Svätý Jur, opened in 1840 and soon extended to Vienna. Budapest was connected in 1850, and in 1872 trains were crossing the country from Košice in the [...] developed on the Danube. Thanks to its location on the river and its proximity to the metropolis of Vienna, Bratislava gradually developed into an urban centre with industrial operations. When Czechoslovakia

began to design public buildings in an objective and functional manner. The Savings Bank Office in Vienna, built by Wagner between 1904 and 1912, has become a milestone in the history of architecture. Since [...] pavilions and restaurants. Illuminations and firework shows were also presented there. The "Prater" in Vienna developed in a similar fashion. It was originally an imperial wild game reservation, but in the mid-18th

transformed into a joint stock company in 1902, and subsequently studied paper-making technology in Vienna and in the United States, where he became acquainted with new thinking about occupational safety

to the pressure of Europe’s great powers, participated in the construction of the Orient Line from Vienna to Constantinople. Serbia thus received its first railway in 1884, linking Belgrade and Niš, the

map surveyors in Bavaria. He helped to establish similar institutions in Berlin, Paris, London and Vienna. In 1819 Senefelder wrote his book ' Vollständiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey', which was published

between Gloggnitz and Murzzuschlag built in 1848-54 was part of the Sudbahn, the railway that linked Vienna, capital of the Habsburg Empire, with the principal imperial port at Trieste. It was the first main

pioneering Heinkel He 162 Salamander jet fighter, but the aircraft were assembled at the airfield at Vienna Schwechat. A model of a Salamander aircraft is displayed in the workings, and there is a monument

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

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