Paul La Cour was a pioneer in the application of wind-power, a sphere in which Denmark has led Europe in the twentieth- and twenty-first ...
The German engineering manufacturer Heinrich Lanz created under his own name a brand of agricultural machinery and steam engines that ...
Carl Gustaf Patrick de Laval (1845–1913)
Laval was a Swedish engineer whose innovations profoundly influenced the growth of the dairy industry and the development of steam ...
Henri Louis Le Chatelier was a French scientist, engineer and administrator who promoted economic development and solved technical ...
Nicolas Leblanc had a formative influence on the early chemical industry. In 1787 he devised the process for making alkali that dominated ...
William Hesketh Lever, first Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925)
W H Lever was a successful soap manufacturer who founded the model industrial village of Port Sunlight, one of the most significant of its ...
William Lindley was an engineer and urban planner who spread main sewer design on modern principles across Europe. He was born and died in ...
Fredrik (1875 - 1964) & Birger Ljungström (1872–1948)
The Ljungström brothers of Sweden were internationally recognised inventors and designers in mechanical engineering and materials science. ...
The brothers Thomas Lombe and John Lombe together revolutionised the spinning of silk in England by building a water-powered factory. It ...
In the early industrialisation of Poland, Henryk Łubieński was a central figure. He was behind the creation of many diverse industrial ...
Jan Jósef Ignacy Lukasiewicz (1822–82)
Jan Jósef Ignacy Łukasiewicz was one of the outstanding pioneers of the oil industry in Europe, the inventor of the kerosene lamp, and ...