Abraham Ganz (1815–67)

Abraham Ganz founded an engineering company in Budapest that became the largest in Hungary and influenced developments in technology, ...

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Johann Rudolf Geigy-Merian (1830–1917)

Johnann Rudolf Geigy-Merian was a member of the family who established a pharmaceutical company in Basel which developed in the nineteenth ...

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Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner (1796–1840)

Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner was a railway engineer who worked internationally. He can be seen as the father of the railway in Austria ...

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Karl Ritter von Ghega (1802–60)

Karl Ritter von Ghega was engineer of the Semmeringbahn (the Semmering railway), generally regarded as the first main line railway to pass ...

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Philippe de Girard (1775–1845)

Philippe de Girard is one of the most outstanding 19th century scientists and inventors. He was born on 1st February 1775 in France in a ...

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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, the principal means of moving ...

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Guetschlique (1793-1873) and Samson Godchaux (1811–87)

The Godchaux brothers established the earliest woollen factories in Luxembourg, from the 1830s onwards. Guetschlique (or Quetschlik) ...

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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 of cast-iron stoves and ...

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Karl Godulla (1781–1848)

In the early nineteenth century Karl Godulla (or Karolus Godula) was a pioneer of the industrial revolution in Silesia - then in Prussia ...

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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 countries, and he profoundly ...

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Karl Gölsdorf (1861–1916)

Karl Gölsdorf was an outstanding locomotive engineer, and the son of a locomotive engineer, Louis Adolf Golsdorf (1837-1911), a Viennese ...

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Göran Fredrik Göransson (1819–1900)

Göran Fredrik Göransson was one of Europe’s first industrialists who had a truly international perspective on industry, technology and ...

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Ernest Goüin (1815–85)

Ernest Goüin was one of the civil and mechanical engineers in France responsible for great infrastructure projects. He created the ...

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Knud Graah (1817–1909)

Born and educated in Denmark, Knud Graah developed cotton mills in the Norwegian capital in the mid-nineteenth century and ran them and ...

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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 (1852-1926) and as the creator of a ...

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Juan Güell y Ferrer (1800–72)

Juan Güell was one of the most important industrialists in nineteenth-century Spain. He developed a diversity of industrial enterprises, ...

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