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 ...
(Johann Friedrich) August Borsig was the founder of one of Germany`s principal engineering companies. He was born, the son of a carpenter ...
Robert Bosch is best-known in the history of technology for his role in the development of the spark plug, and in business history as the ...
George Bradshaw, cartographer, printer, engraver and publisher publicised the concept of travelling by rail for enjoyment and education ...
Thomas Brassey was the first civil engineering contractor to work on a European, or rather on a global scale. He had the ability to manage ...
Wernher von Braun was one of the outstanding pioneers of rocket propulsion of the 20th century, and designed the rockets that enabled ...
Vincenzo Stefano Breda (1825–1903)
Breda was among the most important engineers and entrepreneurs of nineteenth-century Italy. He was born in 1825 at Limena, close to the ...
James Brindley was the leading British canal engineer in the early part of the Industrial Revolution. He was responsible for a network of ...
Johann Gottfried Brügelmann (1750–1802)
Johann Gottfried Brügelmann brought the idea of the cotton factory from England to mainland Europe. In 1771, Richard Arkwright built the ...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–59)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the most imaginative figure in the heroic age of British civil engineering. He was the son of Sir Marc ...
Éttorre Bugatti is best known as the builder of some of Europe’s most prestigious performance cars, but his interests extended to other ...
Reinhold Burger was born in the glassmaking community at Baruth, south of Berlin, and through his work in glass technology did much to ...