Henschel & Son of Kassel in 1918. A large part of the collection consists of steam locomotives from World War I. There are also two diesel locomotives, which were built around 1960 at Poznań, freight wagons

and heavy guns for the navy. The capacity of the works was greatly increased during the First World War after which it was purchased by Schneider et Cie from Le Creusot. In 1924 the company took over [...] achieved much success in the years that followed. The history of the company during the Second World War and subsequently is complex. It retains its identity but car manufacturing has been separated from

of the city has been developed around the modern commercial port and was famous - after the II World War - for the establishement of important industries such as Piaggio and Ansaldo. Genova is traditionally

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

Auch wenn der Begriff „Ruhrgebiet“ erst in den 1930er Jahren entsteht, lassen Industriepioniere wie Franz Haniel, Mathias Stinnes, Friedrich Krupp und Friedrich Harkort bereits seit der Mitte des 19.

Goldberg, until he was forced by the Third Reich government to leave Germany in 1933. After the Second World War the company was split up. Zeiss Ikon resumed production in the Federal Republic at the former Contessa

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

locomotives were used for the first time in 1937. The railway remained in use after the Second World War and in 1974 some tourist trains were hauled by steam locomotives from the Zillertalbahn. After a

of work has always been part of the pattern of industrialisation. In the years after the Second World War many Europeans, particularly from the eastern parts of the continent, found themselves working in [...] Army from Normandy to the Netherlands, where he was wounded, but returned to action and ended the war with his regiment. He was warned by his father not to return to Poland where the Communist government

established and held its first exhibition in Newcastle. In the late 1930s and during the Second World War the group received some recognition from celebrated artists and critics, and in 1943 a hut was built

The life of Arno Wolff, like that of so many European working men, was shaped by the Second World War. He was born in East Prussia. His father served in the Germany army and was killed on the Eastern Front

Hall (now Ruskin College), Oxford, in 1900. While on military service in India during the First World War he learned Sanskrit. He was employed at the railway works, principally as a hammerman, between 1892

torpedo was a new weapon developed in the nineteenth century that had a terrible impact in the two world wars. The British engineer Robert Whitehead developed the self-propelled underwater explosive device

massive contrast to the lunar landscape of the immediately adjacent modern opencast mine. Both worlds are linked by a 2 km path.

its temporary exhibitions. In 2015, for example, it focussed on forced labour during the Second World War.

built in the 16th century, was owned by the Wesselsy family from 1767 until the end of the Second World War. Water is brought in from the Oder River via an almost 3 km long millrace to drive the 3.6 m high

and was the first aircraft to be mass-produced in Germany after the Second World War. There are several fighters from the Cold War period, a de Havilland Venom and a Hawker Hunter from the United Kingdom [...] about 50 planes and helicopters in four hangars. Particularly interesting examples are an Antonov An-2 biplane, a rugged aircraft, capable of landing and taking off in difficult conditions which was mas

location of the only factory that still makes the traditional Wensleydale cheese.Since the Second World War when cheesemakers were obliged to produce a government standard Cheddar-like cheese, it has been

The United States entered the Second World War late in 1941, and during 1942 embarked on Operation Bolero, the creation of facilities for the assembly of army and air force units in Great Britain for future [...] industrial estate that now occupies the site provides a rich archaeological record of the Second World War, although some of the land has been returned to agriculture and some is occupied by a caravan site

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