Carl Wilhelm Siemens invented many industrial processes and held some 113 patents. He was also a successful...
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Siemens was the imaginative founder of an electrical company that came to be the largest in Germany,...
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Ernest Solvay’s innovations transformed the chemical industry throughout Europe, and were the starting...
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The life of Margarete Steiff is an heroic story of triumph over handicaps. It is also a significant part...
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Charles Stork set up an engineering works in Hengelo that transformed the economy of that small town...
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Thomas Telford was one of the first civil engineers to gain an international reputation. He trained as...
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Sidney Gilchrist Thomas was essentially an amateur scientist, and died young, but he was responsible...
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August Thyssen was one of the principal entrepreneurs in the iron and steel industry of the Ruhrgebiet,...
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Richard Trevithick made an enormous contribution to the development of steam power. He developed the...
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Jan Verbruggen was a foundryman through whom important machine tool techniques were transmitted from...
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Cornelius Vermuyden was one of the most talented of Dutch drainage and waterways engineers, and was responsible...
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James Watt was a genius of many talents who was at the heart of the technological and economic changes...
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