boosted by the vast forests of this Alpine country. Concurrently, industrial workingconditions gradually improved, working time was capped at 11 hours and health and accident insurance was introduced [...] core region, where Karl Wittgenstein, "Austria’s Krupp", formed the established mining and iron-working operations into a powerful cartel. Textile production developed in the Vorarlberg region, and in
especially the "Borinage" in the far west - gained a sad notoriety because of the disastrous workingconditions and the miserable wages. The workers fought back in bitter strikes and the region developed [...] HISTORY OF BELGIUM Listen The industrial age of the European continent began in Belgium, where conditions were similarly good to those in England: coal had been mined in the valleys of the Meuse and Sambre
built relatively late – shortly after 1900. For this reason it is still in an impressively good condition. Nowadays the colliery near Beringen in Limburg (Belgium) is the site of the Flemish Mining Museum [...] pithead towers. And those who still have the time and energy, can then pay a visit to the neighbouring working class housing estate, complete with its mining cathedral.
journey of nearly 1km on a train and continues on foot for 300m. Guides explain the working techniques and conditions underground to the sound of equipment. Visitors see the bottom of a vertical shaft dug
production facilities prisoners from concentration camps were forced to work under inhumane working and living conditions, tens of thousands of them met their death. As the war neared its end von Braun came under
how slate blocks were extracted using drills and explosives and transported to the surface. Workingconditions are explained along with the dangers or rock falls and lung diseases caused by dust. Slate [...] objects made from slate and slate waste. More adventurous visitors can book a diving tour in flooded workings.
from the period, all kept in pristine condition. There are over 29 working stationary steam engines including four large pumping beam engines, the oldest working electrical generator in Britain and a large
at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart, before travelling to enlarge his understanding of engineering, working on the gas engine of J J Lenoir in Paris, gaining experience in a locomotive works at Strasburg, [...] other ventures he worked closely with Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929), whom he first met when he was working in a charitable home, the Bruderhaus in Reutlingen, where Maybach was an inmate. Daimler parted, [...] Frederick Simmons bought the right to make the Phoenix and to use the Daimler name in Great Britain, on condition that Gottlieb Daimler returned to the company. Struggles with board members continued until Daimler`s
great deal of European common ground waiting to be discovered. For a start, the living and workingconditions of the industrial age were more or less the same, assuming that a miner in the Ruhr or the
at the relationship between the Earth and the Sun, followed by the history of mining and the workingconditions of the miners. A show tunnel leads into the former pithead bath, which encourages visitors
months he wrote "The Condition of the Working Classes in England", which was published in 1845. It reflects the anger and the guilt of a member of a mercantile family at the living conditions that observed in
training his workforce and developing talented individuals. His company was also known for good workingconditions, including free medical care. His wife Hilda Simonsson, whom he married in 1878, took a close
projects within the ERIH network and contribute their views on sustainability, climate change, workingconditions, accessibility, digitalisation and the design of industrial heritage. On behalf of the ERIH
establish a reputation as a historian and to found a museum of working class life in the town of his birth. Karl Flanner was born in Flugfeld, a working class quarter of the industrial city of Wiener Neustadt [...] August 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo. He was imprisoned, then made to work under slave labour conditions as a weaver, and at one time weighed only 45 kilos. After about four years he was transferred to
stoke the flames. The Workers' Museum is an open-air museum that shows the regional living and workingconditions between the 1850s and 1960s. Several old houses are furnished as workers' homes from different
collection of self-built tractors. A working threshing machine, ploughs and other equipment are also on display. Domestic reconstructions show everyday living conditions between the 18th century and the 1990s
), who set out here, in the context of "Manchester capitalism", his vision for more decent workingconditions. The factory gates closed in 1968. Thanks to major redevelopment, however, New Lanark is once [...] low-traffic location of houses on cul-de-sacs are trendsetting for the time. The European scale of working-class housing is epitomised by the two sites of East Tilbury in England and Zlin in the Czech Republic [...] worth a visit, as is Nikiszowiec in Poland, a suburb of Katowice and one of the most remarkable working-class estates in Europe. Not to forget the Ruhr area with its first workers' settlement Eisenheim
England as a pioneer of early industrial mass production. Some of the museums focus on the hard workingconditions of glassblowers, smelters, glass cutters, gilders and painters. In addition, basket weavers
to stories? Perhaps stories telling about industrial history, or about people and their working or living conditions? Here you are right ... more BROCHURE: EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE From its very beginning
