Carl Friedrich Beyer was the son of a weaver from Plauen in Saxony, and studied at the polytechnic in...
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(Johann Friedrich) August Borsig was the founder of one of Germany`s principal engineering companies....
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Robert Bosch is best-known in the history of technology for his role in the development of the spark...
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Thomas Brassey was the first civil engineering contractor to work on a European, or rather on a global...
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Wernher von Braun was one of the outstanding pioneers of rocket propulsion of the 20tth century, and...
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the most imaginative figure in the heroic age of British civil engineering....
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Reinhold Burger was born in the glassmaking community at Baruth, south of Berlin, and through his work...
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John Cockerill was the archetype of those British engineers who took the technologies of the Industrial...
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Gottlieb Daimler was one of the outstanding pioneers of the motor industry. Born at Schorndorf, Wurtemburg,...
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Abiah Darby (nee Maude, other married name Sinclair) was the wife of Abraham Darby II (1711-63) of Coalbrookdale,...
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In the course of the 20th century the diesel engine became the principal means of propelling seagoing...
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The achievements of the third Duke of Bridgewater were summarised in 1805 by Thomas Telford who called...
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