What an experience travel is! And panoramic carriages made the journey by rail all the more enjoyable. But not everyone could afford to travel 1st class.
Viktor Kaplan personally signed and dated this drawing. It comes from the ‘Early Files’ archive holdings of the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Technical Museum).
The last remaining art-nouveau public toilet in Vienna is classified as an historical monument.
The drawing of the Pöckstein steel works is a section through the blast furnace and the plant. It shows the Wallasch hammer, the steel hammer building, the water blast and the punch hammer.
Numerous architects took part in the architectural competition in 1909 for the construction of the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Technical Museum), including representatives of the Viennese Modern Age, such as Rudolf Tropsch.
The cast steel works of Friedrich Krupp in Essen produced these axles and wheels for the railway carriages of the ‘Berlin-Anhalt Railway’ and the ‘Cologne-Minden Railway’.
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