The achievements of the third Duke of Bridgewater were summarised in 1805 by Thomas Telford who called him "the model and root of the ...
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923)
The French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel developed an international practice particularly for large wrought-iron and steel structures. He ...
Friedrich Engelhorn (1821–1902)
The multinational chemical company BASF was founded by Friedrich Engelhorn in 1865 in what is now southern Germany. It became the largest ...
Friedrich Engels wrote one of the classic critiques of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution in England, devoted much of his life ...
Christine Englerth (1767–1838)
Christine Englerth was a businesswoman who developed coal mines in the early nineteenth century in the Rhineland, on the border of Germany ...
Nils Ericson was one of the leading engineers of canals and railways in Sweden. He was born in 1802 in the mining region of Långban in ...
Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926)
The telecommunications company Ericsson is world famous today. It was founded in 1876 by the inventor and entrepreneur Lars Magnus ...
By combing a political career with business, Alfred Escher had a formative influence on the economic development of his homeland, ...
Hans Caspar Escher (1775–1859)
The Swiss industrialist and architect Hans Caspar Escher was a key figure in the development of textile manufacturing and machine-making ...
In the early nineteenth century, Evan Evans was responsible for transferring the technologies of cotton spinning from Britain to the state ...
Eyde was a civil engineer and entrepreneur who pioneered hydroelectric power and its industrial uses in Norway. With Kristian Birkeland he ...