Artefacts

The logo of a Court Supplier on a letterhead – Using the double-headed eagle for advertising purposes

 

The Maria Theresa thaler – A Habsburg silver coin as an international means of payment

 

Women smokers – A female revolutionary from 1848 with straw hat and cigar

 

The Rotunda – The centrepiece of the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873

 

The ‘economy coffin’ – A simple reusable coffin of wood instead of many lavish and expensive ones

 

Langreiter’s steam engine – Using steam to move the world

 

The Palais Ferstel – Italian style in Vienna

 

Sisi’s stars – The famous jewels Empress Elisabeth wore in her hair

 

A self-actor – How spinning machines changed the manufacture of textiles

 

The Zugmayr plough – The first furrow-turning plough makes agricultural work easier