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In 1929, brilliant aeronautical engineer Marcel Bloch (later Marcel Dassault) founded the Société des Avions Marcel Bloch in Paris, following his First World War…
September 2026In 1928, at the industrial crossroads of Alsace and Franche-Comté, the electrical division of Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston merged with the heavy machinery ateliers of…
September 2026Sources S1 — Slaven, Anthony, and Fred M. Walker. European Shipbuilding: One Hundred Years of Change. National Maritime Museum, 1992. ISBN 978-0-948065-15-6. S2 —…
September 2026Sources S1 — Stihl, Hans Peter. 75 Jahre Stihl: Eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Waiblingen, 2001. ISBN 978-3-00-008112-5. S2 — Hall, Lee. A History of the Chainsaw.…
September 2026In 1925, at the height of the Parisian *Années Folles* and the landmark International Exposition of Modern Decorative Arts, twenty-three-year-old prodigy Marcel Rochas opened…
September 2026In 1924, in a modest wooden barn in the Innviertel town of Ried im Innkreis, Austrian carpenter Josef Fischer Senior began hand-crafting wooden toboggans…
September 2026Naumburg Cathedral in Saxony-Anhalt, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2018, holds the twelve Founders' Statues carved by the anonymous Naumburg Master around 1250…
September 2026Stralsund and Wismar, two Hanseatic cities on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, form a single UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2002. Both cities…
September 2026Formed on 18 September 1930 by merging the shipyards of Trieste and Monfalcone, CRDA built the legendary ocean liner SS Rex and turned the…
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