Emil Rathenau was the founder of one of the most influential German companies of the first half of the 20th century and the patron of the ...
Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden (1752–1815)
Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden was one of the most influential figures in the development of industry in Upper Silesia. He was the ...
Regout was called the ‘pottery king’ of the Netherlands. He established a powerful family business at Maastricht producing ceramics and ...
Louis Renault, like Armand Peugeot and André Citroën established a motor car manufacturing company that was influential not only in France ...
John Rennie was a leading millwright and one of the most prolific British engineers of docks and waterways in the Industrial Revolution. ...
Henry Ricardo made many innovations in mechanical engineering that had implications throughout Europe, and pioneered the role of the ...
Steam power was one of the critical innovations of the industrial revolution, allowing mechanical power to be concentrated wherever it was ...
Charlotta Richardy (1751–1831)
At a time when Swedish society gave little freedom to women, Charlotta Richardy fought for her independence and became a successful ...
Ludwig August Riedinger (1809–79)
Ludwig August Riedinger achieved distinction in mechanical engineering and played a large part in the development of the textile industry ...
Nicholas-Louis Robert (1761–1828)
The French inventor Nicholas-Louis Robert created the first continuous paper machine to begin the industrialisation of paper ...
Henry Roberts was an English architect whose designs influenced the provision of social housing throughout Europe, and whose ideas were ...
Although he is not widely remembered, Richard Roberts was possibly the most brilliant and prolific mechanical inventor of the nineteenth ...
Hermann Röchling was a German steel manufacturer who, over decades, polarized the German-French relations and continued to be a ...
From around the mid-eighteenth century, the chemist and entrepreneur John Roebuck influenced important developments in the British ...
Alessandro Rossi was born in Schio, a citizen of the Habsburg Empire, which, until the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, ruled the region ...
Seebohm Rowntree was one of the most influential figures in social thinking in 20th century Europe. He was born in York, the son of the ...