Carlos Carbonell y Morand (1856–1917)
Carlos Carbonell y Morand was an important figure in the development and promotion of the olive oil industry in Andalucía, Spain. He ...
The Church of England clergyman, poet and inventor Edmond Cartwright started a revolution in the mechanisation of textile weaving. While ...
The career of Coco Chanel exemplifies the power of brands in twentieth-century industry and the extension of the market for luxury goods ...
Victor Chávarri Salazar (1857–1900)
Victor Francisco Chávarri Salazar was an industrialist and businessman who contributed to the industrial development of Vizcaya (the ...
Víctor Chávarri y Anduiza (1888–1970)
Like his father, Victor Chávarri senior (1854-1900), Victor José Luis Paulino de Chávarri y Anduiza became a major figure in the Basque ...
Yefim (1774 - 1842) & Miron Yefimvich Cherepanow (1803–1849)
Yefim Cherepanov (1774-1842) and his son Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov (1803-49) lived in the ironworking city of Nizhny Tagil in the Urals ...
Paris, for many decades in the twentieth century, was one of Europe’s principal motor car manufacturing centres, and on a 19 ha site at ...
John Cockerill was the archetype of those British engineers who took the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to continental Europe ...
Thomas Cook was one of several entrepreneurs who in the mid-nineteenth century popularised railway travel throughout Europe through ...
In 1784, Henry Cort invented one of the most important iron-making processes of the Industrial Revolution. This was a new method of ...
Theodor von Cramer-Klett (1817–84)
Theodor von Cramer-Klett (born Theodor Cramer) was born in Vienna and initially worked in his father’s soap business in that city. Later ...
Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–88)
Thomas Russell Crampton is best-known as the designer of a distinctive type of steam locomotive that was more popular in continental ...
Silvio Benigno Crespi (1868–1944)
Silvio Benigno Crespi was principally responsible for the building of Crespi d’Adda the most spectacular industrial community in Italy. ...
Johann Baptist Czjzek Edler von Smidaich (1841–1925)
Johann Baptist Čžjžek Edler von Smidaich was one of the leading entrepreneurs in the Habsburg Empire with interests in several major ...