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Single Biographies
History is always made by people. This, of course, equally holds true for the age of the Industrial Revolution.
Following we present a selection of personalities who influenced the European industrial history.
Alexandre Gustave
Eiffel
(1832 - 1923)
The French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel developed an international practice particularly for large wrought-iron...
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Friedrich
Engels
(1820 - 95)
Friedrich Engels wrote one of the classic critiques of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution...
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Anthony Herman
Focker
(1890 - 1939)
Anthony Fokker was one of the principal pioneers in Europe of the manufacture of aircraft. He was one...
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Georges
Franju
(1912 - 87)
Georges Franju was a French film director who made two documentaries that are of importance to students...
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Abraham
Ganz
(1815 - 67)
Abraham Ganz founded an engineering company in Budapest that became the largest in Hungary and influenced...
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Alfred George de
Glehn
(1848 - 1936)
Alfred de Glehn contributed as much as any individual engineer to the development of the steam locomotive,...
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Jean-Baptiste Andre
Godin
(1817 - 88)
Jean-Baptiste Godin was a successful entrepreneur whose name is familiar to every Frenchman as a manufacture...
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Ernö
Goldfinger
(1902 - 87)
Erno Goldfinger was one of the pioneers of the modern movement in architect. His career spanned several...
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Karl
Gölsdorf
(1861 - 1916)
Karl Gölsdorf was an outstanding locomotive engineer, and the son of a locomotive engineer, Louis Adolf...
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Eusebi
Güell
(1846 - 1918)
Eusebi Guell was a Catalan textile entrepreneur, best known as a patron of the architect Antoni Gaudi...
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Joseph
Gutteridge
(1816 - 1899)
Joseph Gutteridge represents the tradition of educational self-help displayed by working men throughout...
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Sir Robert Abbott
Hadfield
(1858 - 1940)
Sir Robert Hadfield was one of the most influential figures in the European steel industry in the twentieth...
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