Leo Baekeland was a Belgian chemist whose researches did much to shape the material culture of the mid-20th...
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Samuel Bamford’s autobiographical writings provide a detailed and moving account of the way of life...
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Friedrich Bayer was the son of a silk worker, a member of a family established in the textile industry...
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Peter Behrens was one of the most creative architects of the twentieth century, and designed many industrial...
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Karl Benz designed and built the fist practical motorcar to be powered by an internal combustion. He...
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Annie Besant (nee Wood) led a long, varied and eventful life, and for a few years played a crucial role...
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Carl Friedrich Beyer was the son of a weaver from Plauen in Saxony, and studied at the polytechnic in...
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(Johann Friedrich) August Borsig was the founder of one of Germany`s principal engineering companies....
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Robert Bosch is best-known in the history of technology for his role in the development of the spark...
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Thomas Brassey was the first civil engineering contractor to work on a European, or rather on a global...
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Wernher von Braun was one of the outstanding pioneers of rocket propulsion of the 20tth century, and...
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the most imaginative figure in the heroic age of British civil engineering....
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