STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE: BIOGRAPHIES
History is always made by people. Of course, this also applies to the age of the industrial revolution. Industrial history is also not only told through architectural evidence such as mines, production plants or workers' settlements. Just as important are the people of both sexes: inventors, entrepreneurs, financiers and above all the workers.
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In the following, we present more than 270 biographies of selected personalities who have influenced the industrial history of Europe, their countries, regions, cities or a branch of industry ...
Gottlieb Daimler was one of the outstanding pioneers of the motor industry. Born at Schorndorf, Wurtemburg, he studied at the Polytechnic ...
Abiah Darby (nee Maude, other married name Sinclair) was the wife of Abraham Darby II (1711-63) of Coalbrookdale, the ironmaster who, in ...
The Darby dynasty were important figures in the British iron industry for nearly two centuries, and were responsible for innovations that ...
The civil engineer William Dargon is rightly regarded as the ‘father of Irish railways’. He was born in Co Laoise (then Queen’s County), ...
Leisure pursuits, links with sporting stars and the cult of celebrity and powerful brand names are characteristics of some twenty-first ...
Zino Davidoff established himself as one of Europe’s principal suppliers of cigars, and his name remains one of the most powerful brands ...
Humphry Davy was a distinguished scientist who changed coalmining with his design for a safety lamp. As a scientist he was a pioneer of ...
Paul Camille von Denis (1795–1872)
Paul Camille Denis was a Franco-German engineer who pioneered railway building in Germany. He designed the country’s first main-line ...
The mechanisation of the laborious process of making paper by hand was developed by several inventors around 1800. In France, ...
In the course of the 20th century the diesel engine became the principal means of propelling seagoing ships, heavy lorries and motor ...
Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck (1830–1916)
Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck became one of the richest men of his time and from 1901 held the title of ‘Furst’ (i.e. prince). He was ...
Georges Dufaud, born in Beaumont-la-Ferriere (Nièvre), discovered the activity in the La Chaussade forges of Guérigny, led by his ...
Henry Dunker was a rubber manufacturer who diversified and expanded his business interests and became the richest man in Sweden. He left ...
When he tried to improve his son’s tricycle in 1887, John Boyd Dunlop invented a product that is still in use on billions of vehicles and ...
Asturias in the north of Spain had a small-scale iron industry in the eighteenth century. However, it had no large blast furnaces to make ...