The former Delhaize brush factory is one of Bruges' most striking and best-preserved industrial heritage sites.
The former Delhaize brush factory is one of Bruges' most striking and best-preserved industrial heritage sites.
Tuesday, May 15, 1934. In the Fief de Lambrechies mine in Quaregnon (Belgium), 46 miners are trapped like rats 821 metres underground after a mine gas explosion. Eleven rescuers dive into the shaft in search of survivors.
New Year's Eve 1874. Over a railway viaduct hundreds of metres long near Wesel, Germany, a first train thunders over what will become the transnational railway line between Paris and Hamburg.
In the spring of 1956, Dutch Queen Juliana set the world's largest radio telescope in motion in the Dutch village of Dwingeloo with a simple push of a button.
Two and a half centuries ago, on 13 February 1787, the first burial took place in Bruges' Central Cemetery on the outskirts of the city.
Two metal headframes in Charleroi are a last reminder of the glorious past of the Pêchon coal mine, where coal has been extracted since 1910.
In 1939, construction of a 50-kilometre defence line between Koningshooikt and Wavre, known as the KW-Line, began on behalf of the Belgian army.
Almost five thousand kilometres of tracks, 45 major bridges, tunnels, turntables, weighbridges, countless stops all over the country and spacious depots with water towers, warehouses and tram sheds. The Belgian National Company of Light Railways constructed this widespread tram network from 1885 onwards.
On Monday evening, 3 August 1914, an explosion signalled the start of World War I in Belgium. Belgian combat engineers detonated the southern portal of the Laschet train tunnel.
The construction of the Boeing 707 ushered in a new era for aviation and tourism in the 1950s.
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