Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield (1858–1940)
Sir Robert Hadfield was one of the most influential figures in the European steel industry in the twentieth century. He was born in ...
James Hargreaves was a weaver from Lancashire in north-west England, who invented the ‘spinning jenny’, which was the earliest of a ...
Richard Hartmann was one of the leading figures in the engineering industry that flourished in Saxony from the mid-nineteenth century. He ...
From humble origins Caroline Haslett became a powerful advocate for the benefits that electricity could bring to people’s everyday lives, ...
The Hasselblad company pioneered new technology in photography in the twentieth century. Its origins throw interesting light on the ...
John Haswell was one of several nineteenth-century Scotsmen who established large scale industries in continental Europe. He was born in ...
Sir John Hawkshaw was one of a generation of British civil engineers whose expertise contributed to the development of railways and ports ...
Artur Hazelius founded the open air museum called Skansen at Stockholm, which has given its name to collections of buildings that have ...
Alfred Henry Heineken (1923–2002)
Alfred Heineken transformed his family’s brewing business in the second half of the 20th century into a global concern, while maintaining ...
Friedrich Karl Henkel (1848–1920)
Domestic cleaning products are some of the least romantic products of twentieth- and twenty-first-century industry, and their historical ...
Sophie Henschel led the Henschel engineering company, which built railway locomotives and other mechanical equipment, from 1894 to 1912. ...
The memoirs of George Herbert portray with unusual clarity the way of life of an urban craftsman, who happened to be English, but who ...
Friedrich Anton von Heynitz (1725–1802)
Friedrich Anton von Heynitz was acknowledged in his lifetime as the greatest expert in Germany on mining, metallurgy, salt workings and ...
John Holker is an early example of the significance of political refugees in the transfer industrial expertise between countries. He left ...
Franciscus Quirien den Hollander (1893–1982)
Franciscus Quirien den Hollander was a railway manager, notable in the Netherlands as the man who directed the re-building of the railway ...
Archibald Hood was one of the mining engineers who transformed the coal industry in Europe in the course of the 19th century. He was born ...