Carl Zeiss, by origin a maker of lenses, was one of the leaders of the photographic industry in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, and ...
In 1834 Dobri Zhelyazkov (also spelled Jeliazkov or Zhelyazkovac) established the first textile factory to be built anywhere in the Balkan ...
The Hungarian entrepreneur and inventor Johann Zimmermann (later awarded the title Ritter von Zimmermann) created a factory to design and ...
The novels of Emile Zola depict with startling clarity the inhuman and oppressive aspects of working class life in industrial Europe in ...
Tomás de Zubiría e Ybarra (1857–1932)
Tomás de Zubiría e Ybarra (later Count Zubiría) was one of the leading industrial entrepreneurs in Spain in the early twentieth century ...