Last Exit

Hinckley

The remains are still there in Hinckley, Utah. The Delta Solar R&D Project stared as a technological avant-garde experiment and became a scheme fraud. In…

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Shoreham

The plant that never was. But no one envisaged that in 1965 when Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) President John J. Tuohy announced plans for…


Puits Simon. Photo credit: industry explorer/Wikipedia

Siège Simon

Siège Simon was one of the largest coal mines in the Lorraine region of France. Geological surveys between 1817 and 1849 identified coal deposits. The…


Kennecott (Alaska). Photo credit: Photo credit: Tjgarvey/Shutterstock

Kennicott

Kennicott is an abandoned copper mining camp in the U.S. state of Alaska. The search for the mineral began in the summer of 1900. The…


Sahaganj. Dunlop factory. Photo credit: Gurvinder Singh

Sahaganj

In 1936 the pneumatic tyres manufacturer Dunlop opened its first factory in India. Sahaganj was the chosen venue. It was the first tyre manufacturing plant…