Georges Nagelmackers (1845–1905)

Georges Nagelmackers established an international company that came to symbolise luxury travel by rail. He was born in Liège to a wealthy ...

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James Nasmyth (1808–90)

James Nasmyth was an innovative engineer and a successful entrepreneur, whose writings about his early career are a valuable source of ...

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Henri (Heinrich) Nestlé (1814–90)

Henri Nestle was born in 1814 in Frankfurt-am-Main, then a free city, was apprenticed as a pharmacist, and practised his profession after ...

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Thomas Newcomen (1663–1729)

Thomas Newcomen, an ironmonger from the port of Dartmouth in Devon, became aware of the difficulties of draining tin and copper mines in ...

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Marie Nisser (1937–2011)

Marie Nisser was an art historian who came to be fascinated by the industrial heritage and greatly influenced its development not only in ...

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Alfred Berhard Nobel (1833–96)

Born in Sweden, the Alfred Nobel spent moved to Russia in 1842, where his father was employed in a mechanical engineering workshop in St ...

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Ludwig (1831 - 88) & Robert Nobel (1829–96)

The member of the Nobel family most remembered today is Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel prizes. However, his ...

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