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coal was mined industrially in underground mines, but due to problems with water drainage, mining ceased in 1898. The museum opened in 1994 in the Piesberg colliery's listed open-cast facilities. Its [...] The MIK Osnabrück Museum of Industrial Culture is located on the Piesberg in the UNESCO Nature and Geopark TERRA.vita. Sandstone and coal have been quarried on the Piesberg since early modern times. A

Dimitsana is a village some 30 km north-west of Tripolis in the Central Peloponnese. The museum, a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is close to a celebrated [...] called Kefalari-tou Al-Yanni. All the restored industrial buildings on the 10 ha site depended on water power. A corn mill has working equipment powered by a horizontal wheel, and adjoins the miller’s house

the locomotive as it chuffs peacefully along the Ruhr valley. There is no doubt that the Railway Museum in the Bochum suburb of Dahlhausen arouses a lot of nostalgia. On Sundays there is always a hand-lever [...] hand-lever trolley at hand on which to drive up and down the huge site to inspect the points, water tower, turntable, engine sheds and coal crane. In addition a rumbling field train waits to take its passengers [...] nearby station at Bochum-Dahlhausen. The station with its restored entrance hall also belongs to the museum. Amongst the exhibits to be seen here is a collection of rail tickets. The fact that none of this

waterwheel. Visitors to the museum can see for themselves - live - how this worked. An ancient steam engine is also still in operation. It was put into action when there was not enough water in the pond. Once the

neglected sixteenth century water supply monument and adjoining the Norman cathedral there is a former monastic brew house dating from the medieval period. The Bridewell Museum, hosting an outstanding collection

springs to life. Rushing water: a mighty scoop wheel creaks into action: above it rises the remarkably genuine sound of crackling fire and bursting rock. The Rammelsberg Museum and Visitor Mine near Goslar

is the brick building of a water-powered forge dating from 1871, which used charcoal for its fresh fire operation. It was in use until 1950. Since 1960, it has housed a museum where visitors can learn how [...] make iron objects such as nails and tools. The neighbouring sawmill, built in1887, is also used as a museum. The church in the ironworks settlement dates from to the early 1770s and there are still many workers'

the surface. More than one thousand years of the mine’s history are displayed in the local mining museum. Most spectacular is the coin cabinet with probably the heaviest and largest coins that were ever [...] business. There are also the preserved remains of canals and moats which carried the large quantities of water from the lakes to the smelting works.

bricks, 30,000 square metres housing area and courtyard, 495 workers' flats for 1,748 people, running water on all floors, a nursery with 50 cots, a theatre for an audience of 1,000, a school, a laundry, a [...] the Société du Familistère, in 1880, thus turning the workers into owners of his stove factory. The museum, which opened in the main wing of the residential complex in 2006 and has been continuously expanded

spinning mills. Styal was chosen for a number of reasons, not least because of the suitable head of water provided by the River Bollin and its proximity to the Bridgewater Canal and thus Liverpool. As the [...] ocuments provide evidence about the life and work of the Greg family and their workforce. 3. A Living Museum Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is still a working Cotton Mill producing over 9,000m (10,000 yards)

exhibitions and archaeological excavations. The trust runs several museums, it’s principal permanent display is the Basque Iron Museum housed in a former iron foundry in Legazpi, where the history of iron [...] iron is interpreted in technological, ecological and social contexts. The museum is also the starting point for several trails in the Iron Valley which guide visitors to the monuments associated with i [...] the blacksmiths, who wear special clothes from the 16th century, make the machinery work, and the water makes the enormous bellows move together with the giant hammer which strikes a piece of red-hot iron

some 4250 route km and provided local and interurban services across large parts of Belgium. The museum at Schepdaal was opened in 1962 in a former Vicinal depot, that was from 1887 the terminus of steam [...] depot retains many of its original features, including a tower from which steam tramcars obtained water. The extensive collection of vehicles, conserved by the Asociation pour le Musee du Tramway, includes

The museum in Agia Paraskevi on the island of Lesvos,a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is located in a former communal oil mill, in which both a [...] phases in oil production, crushing the olives, pressing the olive pulp and separating the oil from water, are clearly explained. The areas where the olive crop was stored before processing are used for displays

the heart of one of the principal olive producing areas in the Mediterranean region. The museum, a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), illustrates the [...] Antiquity. The ground floor of the museum displays machines illustrating the development of olive oil production technology from early times, including animal-, water-, steam- and diesel-powered presses

was generated for street lighting in Funchal, principal city of the Madeira islands, from 1897. The museum, located in the Central Termica do Funchal, the original power station, was established to commemorate [...] archipelego. One section traces the history of how energy has been generated in the islands from wind, water and other sources. There are interactive displays in a Science and Technology Hall.

which was built in the classical style. Since 2000 this has been a municipal museum, the Jana Pazdura Nature and Technological Museum, that takes its name from the pioneer of Industrial Archaeology in Poland [...] from the remains of the ironworks the museum also displays the history of the Star Truck Co that has produced heavy motor vehicles in Starachowice since 1948. The museum also interprets the ecology of the [...] by Stanislaw Staszic (1755-1826). Charcoal-fired blast furnaces with bellows originally blown by water-power derived from the Kamienna river, were built in 1838-41. Coke was used after the construction

Finland’s national open air museum was established, like those of other Scandinavian countries, in the period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part of the [...] all parts of the country. Amongst the exhibits are windmills, a tar boat from Oulo, a 17th century water-powered saw mill and a country store of 1871. The Kurssi farmstead shows how in some parts of Finland

government of New South Wales. The capacity of Beyer Garratt locomotives to carry large quantities of water and fuel and their low axle loadings made them especially successful in Africa and in South America [...] adopted country, and the Beyer Peacock locomotives that are displayed in many of Europe`s railway museums testify to his influence.

became a celebrated clockmaker, but also gained distinction as a mining engineer, by designing a water-powered hoist for raising barrels of ore from the copper mine at Falun in 1693 that attracted the [...] ity for the Falun mine, and visited mines in the Harz region in 1707. From 1700 he established a water-powered factory for the automated manufacture of knives, locks and clocks at Stiersund (Stjarnsund) [...] but the project never materialised. Examples of his tools and models are displayed in the National Museum of Science & Technology, Stockholm, and at Falun.