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Ferry & Shipping Companies

17. September 202214. September 2022 No Comments

Shipping companies have transported goods and passengers for millennia. From small vessels built of reeds to gigantic ocean liners, supertankers and cruise ships Europe Denmark Bornholmstrafikken DFDS – Det Forenede Damspkibs-Selskab Det Forenede Damspkibs-Selskab is one of very few steamship companies that has survived until today. Maersk Maersk is one of the worlds largest shipping […]

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Shipyards of the world

17. September 202215. February 2023 1 Comment

Since we began transporting goods and passengers over water, shipyards have built vessels to transport them in. Asia South Korea Hyundai Hyundai is a huge company, that is best known for their cars, but have factories manufacturing everything from electronic components to supertankers. Eurasia Australia Austal Europe Denmark Denmark, home of Vikings, and the worlds […]

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Scandinavian America Line

14. September 202215. September 2022 3 Comments

Scandinavian America Line (in Scandinavia “Skandinavien-Amerika Linien”) was a Danish steamship company, owned and run by DFDS “Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab” (Loosely translated: The United Steamship-Company in Danish) The company originated as the Thingvalla Line, the first steamship company in Denmark, to transport emigrants directly from Denmark to America.DFDS bought the company in 1898. Scandinavian America […]

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Assicurazioni Generali

26. August 202226. August 2022 No Comments

Assicurazioni Generali is an insurance company, that was established in 1831 in Trieste, that then was a part of the Austrian Empire. Today it’s the largest insurance company, but is also represented in other countries, som who also were a part of the Austrian and Austro-hungarian empires. The Jewish controversy A controversy after the second […]

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Bukh and Kalundborg Engine factory

13. August 20229. August 2022 No Comments

The engine factory Bukh was established by Jens Bukh and Johannes Gry, in the Danish town Hørve in 1904. After WWII they began manufacturing tractors. They began with manufacturing stationary diesel engines for industrial and farming purposes. In 1915 the factory was moved to the port city Kalundborg, where they became neighbours to Kalundborg Boatyard.They […]

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Margarine factories

4. July 20224. July 2022 No Comments

Today margarine is primarily made from vegetable oil, but for a long time after the invention in 1869, it was made of a mixture of bovine fat, skimmed milk and water. ften made by vegatabile oil Europe Denmark Kronborg Margarine factory Otto Mønsted

Cuticura - The soap with the famous ointment in it! Secret of a spotless skin

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Potter Drug and Chemical Company

4. July 20227. June 2023 No Comments

The Potter Drug and Chemical Company was established in 1865, and is best known for it’s antibacterial Cuticura soap, that still can be bought today. The Soap Factory was based in Boston, Massachusetts, and has now changed it’s name to Culticura Soap.

Blumensaadts 711 Toilet Soap - Wooden box

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Blumensaadts Soap Factory

4. July 20224. July 2022 No Comments

Nicolai Niemann Blumensaadts soap factory made a lot of different Hygiene products, and established his soap company in 1835. They had a series of bathroom soaps, one of them called the “711 Toiletsoap” The company was in 1957 merged with competitor H. C. Møller, into the new company Blumøller.

Bireka ticket from the Danish cathedral "Roskilde Domkirke" 1960s

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Ticket manufacturers

26. June 202220. June 2022 No Comments

A series of ticket manufacturers have made tickets for anything from buses to museums. Often these manufacturers also made the machines that stamped and dispensed the tickets. Bell Punch Company Bireka

The 1944 Yazoo River Railroad Swing Bridge

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Manufacturing Companies

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Manufacturing companies have manufactured anything from toys to space rockets, spoons to suspension bridges. Denmark Dansk Aluminium Industi Illinois, USA Bates & Rogers Manufacturing Co. Bates & Rogers Manufacturing Co. built a series of railway bridges and tunnels. Indiana, USA Deterling Manufacturing Company Deterling Manufacturing Company built “Talking machines” in Indiana.

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