service, Deutsche Luftschiffahrts – the world’s first airline – began in 1910 and by 1914 it had carried nearly 40,000 people on 1,600 flights. In the First World War around 100 Zeppelins were used in aerial [...] the American Civil War. In Minnesota he met the German-born balloonist John Steiner and made an aerial ascent in a tethered hot-air balloon. Having taking part in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the [...] Zeppelin developed and manufactured the most successful rigid airships of all time and created the world’s first air-transportation business. His original ‘Zeppelin’ was launched in 1900 and his airships

Britain, Russia, Spain and Italy. During the First World War, his factories supplied cartridges, shells and canned meat and coffee. With the end of the war, the factory contracted from 30,000 to only 400 [...] ist in several sectors during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By the time of the First World War he employed some 30,000 people, principally in manufacturing armaments. Weiss came from a family

bridges. He was the only son of George Stephenson and his wife Frances, who died when Robert was aged 2. After elementary school, he attended Bruce’s Academy in Newcastle upon Tyne and was made a member of [...] 1829. He continued to make innovations at Robert Stephenson & Company, which was recognised as the world’s first locomotive works and grew to employ 1,500 people. After helping his father with the civil

drug antipyrin from 1895 and the sugar substitute saccharine from 1899. During and after the First World War, it advanced its international business due to the isolation of German manufacturers who were its [...] Basel in Switzerland is one of the world’s centres of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Edouard Sandoz created one of the leading companies in the sector in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

machine-tools to manufacture it. The typewriter went into production in 1911. During the First World War, the company made aeronautic equipment. After it, Olivetti brought out the M20 typewriter and opened [...] century for high-quality typewriters and calculating machines found in offices and homes around the world. Camillo Olivetti was an electrical engineer in northern Italy who began the company and designed [...] remained a leader in typewriters, calculators and computers and is still a global brand. Ivrea is a World Heritage site, where both the Laboratory-Museum and the Olivetti Historical Archive present Olivetti’s

cotton and linen and later printing wallpaper. As early as 1764 his factory covered an area of nearly 2 ha and ten years later it employed 900 people. He developed mechanization and integrated production [...] brother Frédéric with a canvas-printing factory, also in Corbeil. The disruption of the Napoleonic Wars caused a decline in business and the invasion by Russian and Prussian forces in 1815 resulted in the [...] the factory closing. Oberkampf died soon afterwards. His son Émile restarted it after the war. The printing works continued until 1843 and the spinning and weaving factory until 1894. The name Oberkampf

became Maybach-Motorenbau. However, airship production was forbidden in Germany after the First World War and Maybach turned instead to the manufacture of luxury limousines from 1921. When he died in 1929

especially after racial laws were passed in 1937. He was imprisoned at the outbreak of the Second World War and many of his industrial interests were confiscated. In 1942, the Altonescu regime freed him in [...] death in absentia for supporting an unsuccessful anti-fascist coup in 1944. He returned after the war but the new communist regime revoked his citizenship and his Romanian properties were nationalised

Nuremberg Declaration on German Industrial Heritage, and one year later, at ERIH Anchor Point Zollverein World Heritage Site , they passed a resolution to formally establish the federal association, which was [...] Courtesy LWL / Philipp Harms From left to right: Thies Schröder (Managing Director of Ferropolis Ltd., 2nd Chairman), Constanze Roth (INNOVENT e.V. / Head of the Vogtland Pioneers Alliance, Member), Prof. [...] President and Director LVR Industrial Museum, Member), Jürgen K. Enninger (Head of Culture Dept., World Heritage and Sport, City of Augsburg, Member).

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mechanic. He rescued many old aircraft and vehicles. He died in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but his mother Dorothy Shuttleworth continued to develop the collection. All the aircraft are kept [...] aircraft through the first half of the 20th century. The museum’s Blériot XI biplane from 1909 is the world's oldest aeroplane that still flies. Among other aircraft are an Avro 504K from 1918 and a 1941 Spitfire

and a rare Portuguese Alba of 1952. Working vehicles include a fire-engine of 1913 and a Second World War Autocar M3 Half Track. After João died in an accident at only 36, a foundation was established to

The islands of Malta and Gozo suffered badly from a long siege during the Second World War. As part of Cold War defences, the British Government built seven underground corn mills on the islands in 1955

de south of Berlin was the home of the Daimler-Benz aircraft engine factory. During the Second World War, the plant made engines for Luftwaffe aircraft using forced labour. The plant was bombed and after

labour was first used on a significant scale during the First World War, when the German Reich employed nearly three million prisoners of war and civilians from abroad in industry and agriculture to replace [...] forced labourers. During the Second World War, the Nazi German government used forced labour on an entirely different scale: more than 13 million civilians, prisoners of war from West and East, and concentration [...] millions of real and perceived political opponents followed. After the Second World War, tens of thousands of foreign prisoners of war, Soviet soldiers released from German prisons and accused of treason, and

the neoclassical architect Denis Antoine on the Quai de Conti. It is part of the Banks of the Seine World Heritage site. The 177-metre building that faces the quay contained the offices, while courtyards [...] still made. A museum explains the process of making coins and medals and their significance. Around 2,000 pieces are on show from collections of 170,000 objects. Beautifully designed exhibitions give visitors

way, combining various functions, we were awarded in 2021 with the prestigious title of Best of the World by National Geogrpahic Traveler in the Sustainable Development category. This is a source of great [...] Heritage (ERIH) is co-created by post-industrial sites from 28 European countries. The route includes over 2,300 sites, and the association itself has over 400 members. The most important sites on the ERIH route

factory manufactured the brass cases and filled them with the gunpowder propellant. Production during World War Two rose to 97 million cartridges a year. Afterwards, the factory diversified into metal components

colliery , the district's only World Heritage Site, doesn't really need much more to be said about it, considering its reputation as the ‘most beautiful colliery in the world’ and the flagship of an industrial [...] transition. With the completion of Central Shaft XII in 1932, one of the most efficient coal mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not long after its demise in 1986, today's ERIH Anchor Point

in Italy, which - despite recession and mass dismissals - remained in business after the Second World War, producing mainly sugar, locomotives and dockside cranes. Today, the 26-hectare industrial site