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 ...
Carl Franz Bally was one of Europe’s leading shoe manufacturers in the 19th century and established a brand that is still powerful more ...
Samuel Bamford’s autobiographical writings provide a detailed and moving account of the way of life of domestic textile workers during the ...
The fortunes of the company founded by Tomáš Bat’a reflect the political upheavals that beset central Europe during the twentieth century. ...
Lieven Bauwens was an entrepreneur and industrial spy who spread new cotton manufacturing technologies from England to Belgium and France ...
Friedrich Bayer was the son of a silk worker, a member of a family established in the textile industry of Wuppertal, who with others from ...
Bernd Becher (1931 - 2007) & Hilla Becher (1934–2015)
The photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher (née Wobeser) transformed the ways in which we all view the monuments of past industries, showing ...
Peter Behrens was one of the most creative architects of the twentieth century, and designed many industrial buildings that were both ...
The Melitta coffee filter still used today takes its name from the German housewife-entrepreneur Melitta Bentz who invented and developed ...
Karl Friedrich Benz (1844–1929)
Karl Benz designed and built the fist practical motorcar to be powered by an internal combustion. He was born in Karlsruhe, the son of a ...
Louis Bergeron was a distinguished French scholar who did much to establish the value of the study of industrial heritage with ...
Annie Besant (nee Wood) led a long, varied and eventful life, and for a few years played a crucial role in industrial history. She was the ...
The ‘Bessemer converter’ was one of the most important technological innovations of the nineteenth century. It enabled the production of ...
Carl Friedrich (Charles Frederick) Beyer (1813–76)
Carl Friedrich Beyer was the son of a weaver from Plauen in Saxony, and studied at the polytechnic in Dresden, before taking advantage of ...
Charles (Carlo) Bianconi was an Italian who transformed passenger transport in Ireland in the decades before the construction of main line ...
Aerial ropeways (sometimes called aerial tramways, cableways or cablecars) were used to move materials in industry from the mid-nineteenth ...
Claudio Boada Villalonga (1920–2006)
The engineer Claudio Boada Villalonga became one of the outstanding business leaders of the late-twentieth century in Spain, a technocrat ...