Christopher Polhem was a polymath whose understanding of the natural world was based on experience gained...
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Ferdinand Porsche was one of the outstanding automobile engineers of the 20th century and was principally...
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Emil Rathenau was the founder of one of the most influential German companies of the first half of the...
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Henry Ricardo made many innovations in mechanical engineering that had implications throughout Europe,...
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Henry Roberts was an English architect whose designs influenced the provision of social housing throughout...
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Alessandro Rossi was born in Schio, a citizen of the Habsburg Empire, which, until the Austro-Prussian...
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Seebohm Rowntree was one of the most influential figures in social thinking in 20th century Europe. He...
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Giovanni Sacchi was a maker of wooden models whose work had a profound influence on the design of consumer...
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Sir Titus Salt was one of the most eminent entrepreneurs in Victorian Britain, and left a lasting legacy...
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Bernhard Samuelson promoted the international diffusion of technology in the iron and steel and mechanical...
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Joseph-Eugene Schneider (1803-75) and his brother Adolphe (1802-48), whose origins were at Bazeilles...
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Gösta Serlachius was one of the leading Finnish entrepreneurs of the first half of the 20th century,...
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