The engineer Paulin Talabot built the first railway in south-east France and played a key role in proposals for the Suez Canal. Talabot ...
Thomas Telford was one of the first civil engineers to gain an international reputation. He trained as a stone mason in Edinburgh and ...
The ability to bleach products was increasingly important during the Industrial Revolution as industries such as cotton manufacturing and ...
Tesla was one of the most brilliant and prolific inventors of his generation, remembered for his contributions to electrical power – the ...
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–85)
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas was essentially an amateur scientist, and died young, but he was responsible for an innovation that profoundly ...
Edward Thomas was an engineer born in Bristol, England, who developed mechanical engineering companies in the Ruhr region, Saxony and ...
John (Johann) Edler von Thornton (1771–1847)
John Thornton is an important example of the many individuals who enabled the diffusion of technologies during the Industrial Revolution ...
August Thyssen was one of the principal entrepreneurs in the iron and steel industry of the Ruhrgebiet, whose influence spread throughout ...
Richard Trevithick (1771–1833)
Richard Trevithick made an enormous contribution to the development of steam power. He developed the use of high-pressure steam, and was ...
Mårten Triewald was a merchant, engineer and amateur physicist who did much to introduce new technologies in Sweden in the early ...
Dr Oscar Troplowitz (1863–1918)
The pharmaceutical industry is often considered to be concerned primarily with drugs that combat disease, but it also encompasses skin ...
The eighteenth century was a time of rapid change in agriculture in Britain, prompted by the enclosure of common land, the creation of ...