This small water-power site at an altitude of 1,250m in the Pyrenees is open from June to September as part of MNACTEC, the technical museums network of Catalunya. It comprises a sawmill, a flour mill

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

at Grovesend near Gorseinon. He lodged with an elderly widow of a miner who filled a tin bath with water prior to his return from his first day’s work, and was surprised to learn that since the death of [...] ponies were still intact. He retired in 1988. An account of his life is retained at the Big Pit mining museum.

underground water tank of 1909. Visitors learn about the history of water supply in Kyiv along with water resources and waste treatment. The displays include scale models of the park and urban water-treatment [...] The museum occupies two architecturally impressive water towers in Khreshchatyi Park, near the River Dnipro in the centre of the Ukrainian capital. The towers were built in 1872 and 1876 and reconstructed [...] ent plants, interactive graphics of the water system, original artefacts such as sections of early wooden waterpipes and clay sewer pipes, and reconstructed features such as a waterfall, a well, a domestic

The hammer mill is a water-powered iron forge preserved by the Museum of West Bohemia. It is located 25 km east of the city of Pilsen. An ironworks existed on this site in the 1650s. At one time there [...] conserved for the public to visit in 2019-20. The waterwheels are in working order, supplied with water through a timber channel. A working blacksmiths’ forge gives demonstrations. The displays present

built at the foundry of John Hazledine at Bridgnorth, and one of them is displayed in the Science Museum, London. Trevithick’s most enduring invention was the Cornish engine, the final development of the [...] justified its high initial cost, and it was widely used for draining mines and for pumping drinking water and sewage. Trevithick left England for Peru in 1816, hoping to build engines in South America, but

Industrial Revolution, and in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century numerous small-scale water-powered mills were established to spin yarn, and in some cases to weave cloth. The Trefriw mills south [...] installed in 1949 generates electric power to work 50-year-old looms and can be viewed. The mill museum includes carding engines, spinning mules and warping machines. A 12 minute video shows how the wool

gigantic steam engines pumped out the water. The largest of its time, manufactured by an iron foundry in Cornwall, worked in the pumping station "De Cruquius", today a museum. After three years, Holland's largest

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

history of metalworking at Morez since the 16th century to make wire, nails and clock parts using water-powered hammers on the River Bienne meant it was well prepared for the new industry. Since the late [...] century the area has produced glasses on a large scale. In a beautiful new building of glass, the museum explains the technologies for making frames and the history of the workers in this labour-intensive

component of the museum is Fjardarselsvirkjun, the first hydro-electric power station in Iceland, erected in 1913. The turbine, by J M Woeth of Würtemburg, was powered from a 50 m head of water. The generator [...] Seydisfjordur (until recently spelt Seydhisfjordur) lies 400 km north-east of Reykjavik. The technical museum that illustrates many aspects of the history of the region has three principal exhibits that relate

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'

by Ferdinand Boberg. The museum explains public transport in the lives of Stockholmers for more than 150 years. The displays on several floors cover public transport on water, road and rail, by horse-tram [...] The collection of the transport museum was started by the head of transport in Stockholm, Ernst Hjortzberg, as early as 1900. It opened in 1922 and moved to its present location in 2022 in the redeveloped [...] horse-tram, metro, commuter train, tramway, bus and boat. Some 80 vehicles at the museum include a horse-drawn bus of around 1840 (the ‘Wurst’) and Sweden's first electric tram of 1901. The collections also

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

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 world capable of transmitting current at a distance. All these factories used the strenght of water, identity element of technological progress and source of fascination for Grand Tour travellers. Visitors [...] Visitors can admire a exceptional overlap of ancient and industrial traces, particularly evident in the museum of classical artworks housed in one of the papermill buildings, as marked by the tracks of the mine

part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy and also of the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard group, and is linked with the Dockyard and with Victory , Warrior and Mary Rose , by a water bus that plies the [...] The museum at Gosport provides an opportunity to observe how submarines are constructed as well as about the lives of the crews who manned them. It occupies the site of HMS Dolphin , the training centre [...] the short distance across the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour. The centrepiece of the museum is HMS Alliance , a submarine of the Second World War. During a 45-minute tour visitors can see the ship’s periscopes

engine was built in 1712 by the English ironmonger Thomas Newcomen. The value of engines in pumping water out of mines was immediately recognised and after 20 years about 100 were in use. Many inventors developed [...] rest of his life in Saxony. Continuing to work with Bückling, he built many beam engines to pump water from copper mines in the Mansfeld area and to power the salt works at Kötzschau, Schönebeck and Teuditz [...] pumping engine of 1813 for the mine at Eisleben operated until 1885 and is preserved in the Deutsches Museum at Munich – it is the oldest surviving steam engine in Germany.

years. Yet, the site is open to visitors on certain days as “museum under construction”. The centerpiece of the unique European Railway Museum taking shape here will be the enormous roundhouse with its 29 [...] technology including a “Transparent Workshop for Steam Engines”, a coaling facility, a deep well, a water crane, a poker rack, a forge, a portal crane and much more. That is the home of the huffing and puffing

such as a water crane and coaling system, a turntable for locomotives and a large engine shed. On weekends, a buffet car serves Polish dishes and snacks. ‚Steam galas‘, tours of the museum at night, a [...] freight wagons labelled "Deutsche Reichsbahn Königszelt" - the rolling stock owned by the Railway Museum in Silesia is as manifold as numerous, and it would take two kilometers of rails to have it lined [...] the middle of the 19th century, would become a fully-equipped transport hub one day. One of the museum‘s outstanding exhibits is the only functioning standard gauge steam locomotive in Lower Silesia -