Paulina Amanor, Eveliina Hänninen, Julianna Olán & Mira

Tuominen

Tammerkoski is rapid between lake Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi. Height difference between the lakes is 18 meters, and the water rapids to the south of Lake Näsijärvi Holy Lake. Tampere has once begun to build on the river beach. Tammerkoski beaches are the oldest Finnish industrial milieu, including, inter alia, Finlayson and Tampellan factories. Today, the rapids along the way is no longer just Tako board mill, but many of the old factory buildings are still there. Tammerkoski is one of the Finnish national landscapes. Tammerkoski was born about 7 500 years ago.

- Kustaa III ( the king of Sweden) first established Kauppala on a traditional mill place and market place in 1779 and it is now the town of Tampere

- The third biggest town in Finland.- The development of Tampere into Finland's first industrial

town began in the 1820's- In the 1960's Tampere got a university and a technical

university next to the upper secondary educational institutions

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Finland’s first modern factory building (Finlayson)Finland’s first paper machine (Frenckell)The first electric light of the Nordic countrieThe first engine that has been made in Finland The first one in Finland car mobileFinland's first public broadcast Finland's first indoor ice skating rinkWorld's first NMT call World's first biodegradable implant World's first GSM callThe world's first walking forest machineWorld’s first communicator (Personal Digital

Assistant, Nokia) World's first communicator of the second generation

(Nokia)

- In Finland there was a civil war in the spring of 1918.- It was a battle between the “Reds” and ” Whites”

- The battle of Tampere was fought on March 16th –On April 6th 1918, when the whites conquered Tampere in Finland's civil war. The whites were led by C. G., E Mannerheim. The battle of Tampere was the biggest of the military history of the Nordic countries to it measured with the numbers of the groups which have participated in the battle. The reason was a need of Mannerheim to go, a solution battle, before the German groups would have time to affect the progress of the war but it partly was a question of an underestimation of red. In the battles about 2 000 red more than half of which were executed prisoners died. White died about 700.

Finlayson cotton mill founded by James Finlayson, 1820. The factory was a long time Finnish Industry benchmarking and the most significant source of employment. 1870 Finnish industrial workers held every four Finlayson works. Finlayson was the 1920s, the Nordic region's largest industrial establishment. The factory workers were easy to equate themselves finlayson people. The factory had its own school, hospital, police and trading as well as money.

Finlayson first all-metal water wheel and electric lights were first introduced in Finland Finlayson. In addition, the company built in the 1870s in Northern Europe's largest covered space, Plevna called a textile factory. Today, Finlayson industrial activities are concentrated in the city. Finlayson area is still busy. There is for example, new media and information technology companies as well as restaurants. A business area called Siperia was oppend in 2001 in the restored old spinning mill.

Finland’s first McDonald's restaurant opened in Tampere Central Square 14 December 1984 on the same site to have been replaced by Burger King. Restaurant was destroyed since the fire broke out in a deep fat fryer 14 May 2010

This museum is an exhibition of Finnish homes how they were between 1882 and 1973 . All residential buildings are original and indigenous sites.

Tampere in 1908, main fire station. Tampere permanent fire department was established in 1898 when the city does not yet have its own fire station. The fire station architect was Wivi Lönn (1907).

The Town Hall is a former town hall and the current status of representation in the central market square. The Neo-Renaissance town hall was completed in 1890 and the designer work Georg Schreck. At the time of the strike, in 1905, were read in the balcony of the Town Hall of Tampere Tampere red declaration. First at the same time there were no town hall was one-storey wooden building, which was completed in 1802. The same site was built in the 1830's small market, thou destroyed by a fire in 1878. The new building held a contest in 1885, which won Schreck. Construction work began in 1887 and the building was inaugurated on 08.01.1890.

In 1908, the City of Tampere was granted for the construction of the theater house amounting 3.726 m2 plot of land ownership rights to the city's best place, rapids from the brink. On March 18, day of 1910 at the meeting of the theater building in favor of working on commission announced an architectural competition. Suggestions received a total of six p.m. Among the approved architects Fiction S. Kallio and Oiva Kallio plan. Construction contract competition was won by the builder Th. Schreck offer. Theater's construction was started in August 1911 and the end of the year the house was finished. The building was the then unusually spacious, modern and functional. Theatre technicalities of the latest achievements: the stadium was 598 seats and the stage was unusually large, 140 m2. Theatre building was officially inaugurated on 14.02.1913. Festive occasion culminated Arvid Järnefelt ordered from Manon lovers of the play-position on draft. Theatre in the early days of the years of the hike finally over.

Made in year 1990. Tampere Hall, is the largest concert and congress center. Tampere Hall, the construction cost 307 million marks. Also, the Tampere Opera and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra operates there.

Tampere Stadium was opened in 1965 and renovated 2004. Tampere Stadium, commonly known as Ratinan Stadium, Tampere´s bus station is located near to the sports stadium where football is played and actively participate in track and field. Ratinan stadium is also used for large-scale concerts. Track and field locations are freely available to everyone, when the stadium has not any special event.

In 1966, the University of Social Sciences changed its name to its current to the University of Tampere. In the 1960 graduated from the University main building, which was designed by Toivo Korhonen. From the early 1970s onwards university has expanded to its current size. The latest expansion of the University faculties are Faculty of Information Science, which became operational in 2001 many Department of the buildings are named after prominent citizens of Tampere great men of: Päätalo, Linna, Arvo and Virta