Bruges
In the early 20th century, between the railway line Ghent-Bruges and the Ghent-Ostend canal, 'La Brugeoise & Nivelles' rose from the ground, a famous railway equipment manufacturer.
Constructors
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Berlin
From 1894, on Brunnenstraße and Ackerstraße in Berlin, AEG built a veritable city within the city: the brand-new 'AEG-Humboldthain' plant.
Ghent
No fewer than 712 steam engines rolled off the production line at the Carels Frères construction workshop (later ACEC) in the Belgian town of Ghent between 1874 and 1914.
Berlin
The Behrensbau is the crown jewel of Berlin's Oberschöneweide industrial area. In 1917, architect and AEG designer Peter Behrens established the Nationale Automobil Gesellschaft (NAG) automobile factory there, a subsidiary of AEG.
Berlin
With the construction of a turbine factory for AEG in Berlin, architect Peter Behrens did away with the battlements, brick facades and turrets that had characterized industrial architecture until then.
Liège
The Prince-Bishop's Palace of Seraing hides the former workshops of the Cockerill company.
Antwerp
The steel lifting bridge above the Brussels-Scheldt sea canal is part of the legacy of the Société Anonyme des Ateliers de Construction de Willebroeck, once an internationally renowned constructor.
Berlin
In 1837, August Borsig set up a workshop on Chausseestraße in Berlin. Three years later, he assembled his first locomotive, the first of many.
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