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Map of the Industrial Revolution in Europe around 1840
The first trunk lines; the Zollverein
The Industrial Revolution in Europe around 1840: The first trunk lines; the Zollverein. Since 1830, 2 territories changed status on this map: The German states (the German Empire from 1871) and Bohemia and Moravia (Habsburg Empire).
c. 1840 · THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750–1914 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Bartholomew: Literary & Historical Atlas of Europe,1914 · BGS Geology625k: Coal Measures bedrock polygons · Canal & River Trust: historic canals · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Maps of History: industrial geography reconstruction record · Science Museum Group: Liverpool & Manchester Railway · UNESCO: Cornwall and West Devon mining · UNESCO: Derwent Valley Mills · UNESCO: Nord-Pas de Calais mining basin · HGIS Germany / IEG: Zollverein accession chronology
Source details John George Bartholomew,1914; economic maps printedpp48–49 and53; railwayspp50–51. Original author died1920. Public-domain original scan; commercially restricted MapsETC derivative not used.. Public-domain original historical cartography; geographic facts independently reconstructed Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI2026. Geological outlines are not mine-operation boundaries.. Open Government Licence3.0; free commercial reuse with attribution Canal & River Trust route histories, named canal endpoints and opening chronology.. Independent named-route reconstruction; no modern map artwork copied Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0 Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain Named districts and route stations from the linked published atlases. District perimeters are interpretive economic regions, not sovereign borders or parcel-level industrial land use.. Original independent thematic reconstructions; source artwork not embedded Science Museum Group; opening1830 and route endpoints, with contemporary atlas route geography.. Historic facts used for independent reconstruction UNESCO World Heritage Centre; named industrial locations and period evidence. The atlas district is not a copy of the modern UNESCO property boundary.. Factual geographic evidence; property artwork not redistributed UNESCO World Heritage Centre; named industrial locations and period evidence. The atlas district is not a copy of the modern UNESCO property boundary.. Factual geographic evidence; property artwork not redistributed UNESCO World Heritage Centre; named industrial locations and period evidence. The atlas district is not a copy of the modern UNESCO property boundary.. Factual geographic evidence; property artwork not redistributed Leibniz Institute of European History; member polity vectors come separately from CC BY Cliopatria. Customs membership is not sovereignty.. Membership facts only; HGIS artwork and datasets not copied Country fills apply the existing educational industrialisation stages to dated published polities. They do not imply that development was uniform throughout each empire. Economic districts represent thematic regions. Source dates and reconstruction methods are recorded separately.
reconstruction: 1785 · reconstruction: 1800 · reconstruction: 1820 · reconstruction: 1830 · reconstruction: 1840 · reconstruction: 1842 · reconstruction: Named district within chapter chronology · vector: 1811–1848 · vector: 1811–1869 · vector: 1814–1863 · vector: 1815–1847 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1820–1847 · vector: 1820–1848 · vector: 1820–1863 · vector: 1820–1864 · vector: 1820–1865 · vector: 1820–1869 · vector: 1820–1899 · vector: 1828–1865 · vector: 1834–1841 · vector: 1834–1847 · vector: 1834–1848 · vector: 1834–1858 · vector: 1836–1855 · vector: 1836–1862 · vector: 1840–1841 · vector: 1840–1845 · vector: 1840–1848 · vector: 1840–1852 · vector: 1840–1858 · vector: 1840–1863 · vector: 1840–1865 · vector: 1840–1867 · vector: 1840–1869 · vector: 1840–1872 · vector: Carboniferous geology / published2007
Layer records and reconstruction methods
What changes on the map
On the ground the Zollverein as founded in 1834, with Baden, Nassau and Luxembourg added by 1842 the Ruhr coalfield, at the heart of German industry from the 1840s the Upper Silesian and Ostrava coal basin, divided among Prussia, Austria and Russia the Silesian linen district, declining under competition from machine-spun yarn and the scene of the weavers’ revolt of 1844 the Saxon textile district around Chemnitz, the Saxon Manchester the north Bohemian textile district around Liberec (Reichenberg) Related maps
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