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Twenty-one fully documented places, machines and institutions across Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and Germany. Search by name, city or keyword — or filter by country, topic and whether you can visit.
CERN
The laboratory where particles collide — and where the web was born
Paul Scherrer Institute
Giant machines that make the invisible visible
Technorama
The museum where you are allowed to touch everything
ANYbotics
Four-legged robots that take over industry's hardest inspection rounds
maxon
The tiny Swiss motors that drive everything from surgery to Mars rovers
Victorinox
From a mountain village workshop to the world's most recognized pocket tool
Swiss Watchmaking Townships
Cities built by time: where streets, light and craft were engineered for watchmaking
Gotthard Base Tunnel
57 kilometres through the Alps — the longest railway tunnel on Earth
Empa NEST
The building where the future of construction is tested on real people
Hilti
Fastening technology from Liechtenstein that holds up the world's construction sites
Ivoclar Vivadent
A century of dental materials, from artificial teeth to digital dentistry
Doppelmayr
Ropeways for the world — engineered in the Austrian Alps since 1893
Semmering Railway
The 1850s mountain railway so beautiful it became a World Heritage landscape
Festo
The automation engineers who learn from birds, kangaroos and ants
Deutsches Museum
An island of invention: more than a century of explaining how the world works
IBM Research – Zurich
Two Nobel Prizes, the first view of atoms, and the quantum frontier
Pilatus Aircraft
From an Alpine valley floor to the world's best-selling pressurised turboprop
Stadler Rail
A Thurgau family firm that grew into one of Europe's great trainbuilders
Herrenknecht
The boring machines that ate the Alps — and dig the world's cities
Carl Zeiss Jena
Precision optics from Jena — and the machine that put the stars under a dome
Swarovski
Crystal cut with machine precision in the Tyrol since 1895
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