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Mathematician, engineer and inventor Joseph Maximilian Petzval is best known for his contribution to modern photography. He was born in 1807 in Spišská Belá, now in Slovakia, but at that time part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The large universities of the Habsburg kingdom offered great opportunities to students and therefore many people, like Petzval, […]
Underground mass transit eased the pressures of rapid population growth, urban expansion and traffic congestion in major European cities during the first half of the 19th century. Metropolitan London London was the first city to construct an underground railway beneath its bustling streets. By 1850, the city already had seven train stations and it was […]
The working world we inhabit today is rich and varied, and tells the story of technological and societal changes over time. Starting today, Europeana’s new season, ‘Europe at Work’, brings stories of our personal working lives together with archive material on industrial and labour-related heritage. Explore the new industrial heritage collection on Europeana – bringing […]
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