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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.
Karl Heinrich
Marx
(1818 - 83)
Karl Marx’s thinking has profoundly influenced our understanding of the process of industrialisation...
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Henry
Maudslay
(1771 - 1831)
Henry Maudslay made rhw machine tools that made possible the widespread percolation of engineering skills...
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Oskar von
Miller
(1855 - 1934)
Oskar von Miller was a talented Bavarian electrical engineer who is best known as the founder of the...
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William Thomas
Mulvany
(1806 - 85)
Mulvany was an Irish surveyor and entrepreneur who prospered in the Ruhrgebiet, and did much to transfer...
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James
Nasmyth
(1808 - 90)
James Nasmyth was an innovative engineer and a successful entrepreneur, whose writings about his early...
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Henri (Heinrich)
Nestlé
(1814 - 90)
Henri Nestle was born in 1814 in Frankfurt-am-Main, then a free city, was apprenticed as a pharmacist,...
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Alfred Berhard
Nobel
(1833 - 96)
Born in Sweden, the Alfred Nobel spent moved to Russia in 1842, where his father was employed in a mechanical...
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Robert
Owen
(1771 - 1858)
Robert Owen was one of the most influential figures of the Industrial Revolution, a successful and philanthropic...
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Sir Charles Algernon
Parsons
(1854 - 1931)
He was born in London of a family whose roots were at Birr in Ireland. He studied at Trinity College,...
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Sir John
Pender
(1816 - 1896)
Sir John Pender was a pioneer of telegraphic communications whose work transformed the nature of the...
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Gerard
Philips
(1858 - 1942)
Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips was an entrepreneur whose company produced on a large scale some of the...
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Frank
Pick
(1878 - 1941)
Frank Pick was the manager who created what was probably Europe`s best urban passenger transport network...
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