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Delft is primarily known for its typically Dutch town centre ( with canals ); also for the painter Vermeer, Delft Blue pottery ( Delftware ), the Delft University of Technology, and its association with the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.
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Delft () is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland ( Zuid-Holland ), the Netherlands.
The Delft Explosion is the principal reason why Delft University of Technology maintains explosion science as a key topic within its research portfolio and graduate skill-set.
Delft University of Technology is developing a kite power technology demonstrator system based on a 25 m² kite generating 20 kW mechanical traction power.
Inter IKEA Systems B. V. in Delft, also in the Netherlands, owns the IKEA concept and trademark, and there is a franchising agreement with every IKEA store in the world.
* 1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
* October 12 – The Delft Explosion, in the arsenal, devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100, among whom is Carel Fabritius ( 32 ), the most promising student of Rembrandt.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is buried in the Oude Kerk ( Delft ) | Oude kerk in Delft
He is buried in the Oude Kerk in Delft.
This is a piece of the old Atomium, in the Delft University of Technology.
Today, Delfts Blauw ( Delft Blue ) is the brand name hand painted on the bottom of ceramic pieces identifying them as authentic and collectible.
Although most Delft Blue borrows from the tin-glaze tradition, it is nearly all decorated in underglaze blue on a white clay body and very little uses tin glaze, a more expensive product.
The UT collaborates with Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology under the umbrella of the 3TU. Federation, and is also a partner in the European Consortium of Innovative Universities ( ECIU ).
Delft University of Technology ( ), also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands.
TU Delft is a member of several university federations including the IDEA League, CESAER, UNITECH, and 3TU.
In 1917 Proof Garden for Technical Plantation () was established by Gerrit van Iterson, which today is known as Botanical Garden of TU Delft.
TU Delft Cultural Center () is located at Mekelweg 10 street, at the edge of the Mekelpark, opposite of the Aula.
Science Centre Delft was opened in September 2010 and is located at Mijnbouwstraat 120 in Delft.
Delft and known
The Delft Explosion, also known in history as the Delft Thunderclap, occurred on 12 October 1654 when a gunpowder store exploded, destroying much of the city.
For example, a living street ( sometimes known as Home zones or by the Dutch word woonerf, as the concept originated in the Netherlands ) towards the end of the 1960s, initially in Delft, is a street in which the needs of car drivers are secondary to the needs of users of the street as a whole ; traffic calming principles are integrated into their design.
* October 12 – The Delft Explosion destroys the city of Delft, killing painter Carel Fabritius and destroying his home, studio and most of his paintings: only five are known to exist.
At fifteen Ruysch was apprenticed to Willem van Aelst, a prominent Delft painter, known for his flower paintings.
KSV (, ) Sanctus Virgilius ( also known as Virgiel ) is the largest student fraternity / sorority in Delft.
Delft and for
Therefore, he was buried in the Delft Nieuwe Kerk ( New Church ), starting a tradition for the House of Orange that has continued to the present day.
However, the Delft merchants had decided to keep the discovery secret and returned in 1615 to hunt for their own profit.
In 2008, the Delft University of Technology applied for a patent on the molybdenum-98-based production of molybdenum-99
* ( VEW04 ) " Using a Decompiler for Real-World Source Recovery ", M. Van Emmerik and T. Waddington, the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, 9 – 12 November 2004.
And in September, Stieltjes was asked to substitute at University of Delft for F J van den Berg.
He nevertheless proved to be an apt architect, and in fact designed the clubhouse for his rowing club DDS in Delft ( see image ).
On 8 January 1913, he received the prestigious Gold Medal from the Technical University in Delft, for his Study of the Interior of the Church of Saint Lawrence ( Laurenskerk ) in Rotterdam.
The Delft Report was published in 1971 and outlined a series of works for Gold Coast Beaches including Gold Coast Seaway, works at Narrowneck that resulted in the Northern Gold Coast Beach Protection Strategy and works at the Tweed River that became the Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project.
In 1654 a gunpowder explosion in Delft destroyed many breweries and as the brewing industry was in decline they became available to pottery makers looking for larger premises ; some retained the old brewery names, e. g. The Double Tankard, The Young Moors ' Head and The Three Bells.
In 2012 Leiden entered into a strategic alliance with Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam in order for the universities to increase the quality of their research and teaching.
* Laga, a student society for rowing at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands
Delft University of Technology was founded on January 8, 1842 by King William II of the Netherlands as Royal Academy for the education of civilian engineers, for serving both nation and industry, and of apprentices for trade.
Because of the increasing number of students, in 1974 the first Reception Week for First Year Students (, OWEE ) was established, which became a TU Delft tradition since then.
In the course of further expansion, in 1987 Delft Top Tech institute was established, which provided a professional master education in management for people working in the technology-related companies.
TU Delft botanical garden dates back to 1917, where Proof Garden for Technical Plantation () was established by Gerrit van Iterson Jr., TU Delft graduate and assistant to Martinus Beijerinck.
Delft and its
From a rural village in the early Middle Ages Delft developed to a city, that in the 13th century ( 1246 ) received its charter.
The university was the second of its kind in the Netherlands, only Delft University of Technology existed previously.
It was the second institute of its kind in the Netherlands, preceded only by the Delft University of Technology.
Because of its history, the historical inner city of The Hague differs in various respects from the nearby smaller cities of Leiden and Delft.
The Royal Hearse with the remains of the late Princess Juliana on its way to the Nieuwe Kerk ( Delft ) | Nieuwe Kerk in Delft
Royal Academy had its first building located at Oude Delft 95 Street in Delft.
After the end of the Second World War, TU Delft increased its rapid academic expansion.
On September 1, 1986, the Delft Institute of Technology officially changed its name to Delft University of Technology, underlining the quality of the education and research provided by the institution.
Through the course of the years the logo of the TU Delft changed a number of times, along with its official name.
New university neighborhood called Mekelpark ( its name commemorating TH Delft professor and WW II resistance fighter, Jan Mekel, who was executed by the Nazis on May 2, 1942 in Sachsenhausen ) was opened on July 5, 2009.
Each faculty of TU Delft has its own set of professional student organizations.
This is partly because it is a Royal City, used not only for the inauguration of kings, but also for royal weddings ( note though that royal burials take place in Delft ), and also because of its dominant position in Dutch history.
Delftware is a kind of faience, made at potteries round Delft in the Netherlands, characteristically decorated in blue on white, in imitation of the blue and white porcelain that was imported from China in the early sixteenth century, but it quickly developed its own recognisably Dutch décor.
Tromp later reported that his ship Delft, which had seen some of the roughest fighting, had lost around 100 men and that most of its officers were wounded.
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