São Pedro da Cova (Portugal), São Pedro da Cova Mining Museum Warsaw (Poland), Museum Station Freudenberg (Germany), Freudenberg Technical Museum Iglesias (Italy), Santa Barbara Mining Trail Ivrea (Italy) [...] Paper Production and Manufacturing Salt Service and Leisure Industry Textiles Transport Water Xtra: Company Museums and Factory Tours Xtra: UNESCO World Heritage Sites + – Shrink map I want to go there!
start of planning for a pipeline between Baku and Batumi, which commenced operation in 1907. Today, a museum in Batumi documents the history of the petroleum industry. At the same time, both the Czar of Russia [...] supported by the Caucasian Institute for Silkworm Breeding, founded in Tbilisi in 1887. Today, a museum in the old institute building recalls Georgia’s lost silk manufacturing. A self-aware, working class [...] Union annexed the country in 1921 and started an extensive programme of industrialization. The use of water power began in 1927 with the hydroelectric plant in Avchala, near Tbilisi; the plant on the Rioni
abroad. As Lake Sevan was increasingly losing water due to the high demand of the power plants, the construction of an almost 50-kilometre-long tunnel bringing water from the Arpa River began. In 1980, the Metsamor [...] and in 1936, construction began on the Sevan-Hrasdan Cascade, a chain of seven power plants fed by water from Lake Sevan and the Hrasdan River. At the same time, urgently needed irrigation canals for agriculture [...] Mergelian. The innovative computer families "Rasdan-2" and "Nairi" were developed there in the 1960s. The Museum of Science and Technology in Yerevan documents these pioneering achievements. In order to remedy
Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Le Bois du Cazier World Heritage Site. Marcinelle (B) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum of Metallurgy. Chorzów (PL) Museum of Work. Hamburg [...] Añana Salt Valley. Salinas de Añana (E) Art Casting Museum. Lauchhammer (D) Baruth Glassmaking Village. Baruth (D) Bursledon Brick Works Industrial Museum. Southampton (GB) Centrum Kultury Śląskiej at former [...] Henrichshütte Steelworks LWL Industrial Museum. Hattingen (D) Historic Silver Mine World Heritage Site. Tarnowskie Góry (PL) Königshain Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) La Encartada Fabrika-Museao
Narvik (N) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum of Industry. Gent (B) Museum of Industry. Gent (B) musil – Museum of Industry [...] Königshain Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) Königshain Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lauchhammer [...] Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Margarethenhütte Electrical Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Mildenberg Brickworks Park. Zehdenik (D) Mildenberg Brickworks Park. Zehdenik (D) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Nord
Textile Works LWL Industrial Museum Bochum (D). Railway Museum Bochum (D). Hall of the Century London (GB) London Museum of Water and Steam London (GB) London Museum of Water & Steam Burton-upon-Trent (GB) [...] (GB). Open Air Museum Bergisch Gladbach (D). Old Dombach Paper Mill LVR Industrial Museum Beringen (B) be Mine Flamish Mining Museum Berlin (D). German Technical Museum Birmingham (GB). Museum of the Jewellery [...] Works LVR Industrial Museum Euskirchen (D). Müller Textile Works LVR Industrial Museum Friedrichshafen (D). Zeppelin Museum Furtwangen (D). German Clock Museum Gent (B). MIAT Museum about Industry, Labour
(PL) Margarethenhütte Electrical Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Mildenberg Brick Works Park. Zehdenick (D) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Musil. Museum of Industry and Labour | Cedegolo Power [...] Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lauchhammer Bio-Towers. Lauchhammer (D) Le Bois du Cazier World Heritage Site. Marcinelle (B) Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum | Exploseum. Bydgoszcz (PL) [...] Brescia (I) Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. Oslo (N) Old Mine Science and Art Centre. Wałbrzych (PL) Pfau Brothers Textile Factory. Crimmitschau (D) Pilsner Urquell Brewery Museum. Plzen (CZ) Riotinto
with delay, for example in Thiers (France). In Solingen, almost all conventional ‚Wasserkotten‘ (water-powered grinding shops) were still in operation around 1900, even though steam grinding plants had [...] to this day. But there are also differences. The traditional hubs of the industry meanwhile host museums devoted to cutlery, whereas new players such as Portugal did not (yet) enter this level of awareness [...] that spans several centuries. Nogent once delivered luxury goods to wealthy customers in Paris, the museum in St.-Jean-de-Maurienne in the French Jura, set up in a former plant of the Opinel family, attracts
pounding steamships and steam locomotives ... more Water No European country has as close a relationship to water than the Netherlands. For this reason water construction technology developed here first. At [...] European industrial heritage. In addition to the selection by industry, you can also list company museums and sites that offer factory tours and industrial heritage properties on UNESCO's World Heritage
in clay containers. Water got into some of the containers, which started the process of fermentation, and thus the very first “beer” was born; although, from today, it was rather water with a pleasant i [...] discovered, during which beer was left to freeze and, as a result of the different melting points of water and ethanol, the alcohol content in the beer increased, making it stronger. It is believed that the [...] "Brewing of Beer" has been developed together with the ERIH Anchor Point Pilsner Urquell Brewery and Museum in Pilsen (CZ). Related Links Franz G. Meussdoerffer: A Comprehensive History of Beer Brewing (pdf)
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
separate compartments. The shield was driven forward by jacks and the tunnel was lined in brick. Water broke into the workings several times and progress stopped until government funding was offered in [...] in 1869 and continues in use. The pumping engine house and shaft at Rotherhithe are now the Brunel Museum. The Thames Tunnel proved the concept of tunnels beneath rivers and led to many other examples. Brunel
marketing. He had substantial capital from his wife’s family and in 1761 he began building a large water-powered factory on a new site at Soho near Birmingham to manufacture small metal goods such as buttons [...] house is preserved and many items made by Boulton & Watt are displayed in the Birmingham Science Museum.
It pumped water to four interconnected stone-walled reservoirs at Passy. The buildings added considerable architectural status to the whole enterprise. Périer installed further engines and water intakes [...] merchants in Paris. He was self-taught in mechanics and saw early on the potential of steam power for water supply and other functions. In 1777-8 he and his brother Auguste Charles Périer founded a pioneering [...] pioneering joint-stock company, the ‘Compagnie des eaux de Paris’, which won the right to supply water to private homes, public fountains and fire hydrants in the French capital. James Watt designed engines for
had been damaged by an explosion a few years previously. Darby and his partners also developed a water-powered works at Tern (on the site of the present Attingham Park), where they intended to refine pig [...] generations, although not as managers, but some members are still involved with the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.
chilled cast-iron rollers for the porcelain rollers previously used, and roller milling plant, with water turbines, were the basis of the company’s prosperity in the 1870s. An electrical engineering department [...] an Italian concern in 1991 to form Ganz-Ansaldo. Many of its products are displayed in the Ontodei Museum, in the foundry buildings constructed in 1858 which continued in use until 1964.
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
Thomas Lombe and John Lombe together revolutionised the spinning of silk in England by building a water-powered factory. It was an inspiration to later industrialists, including Richard Arkwright. The Lombe’s [...] in England. They completed a new five-storey factory next to Crotchett’s mill in 1721, which used water-power from the river Derwent. Their business became highly successful, producing far more silk threat [...] places in England, especially, at Stockport and Macclesfield in Cheshire. The Derby Silk Mill is a museum on the site of the Lombe brothers’ mill. It is part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site
of the cotton factory from England to mainland Europe. In 1771, Richard Arkwright built the first water-powered mill for spinning cotton at Cromford in England. This developed the idea of the factory – [...] North-Rhine Westphalia in 1783-4 he gave it the name Cromford. The building is now an industrial museum. Brügelmann grew up in a family of merchants at Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. Elberfeld [...] Brügelmann built his new Cromford factory at Ratingen, 40 kilometres away from Elberfeld. It used an old water-power site on the river Anger. It was five storeys high and designed on the Arkwright model by Rutger
