Carl Zeiss (1816–1888)

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 ...

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Dobri Zhelyazkov (1800–65)

In 1834 Dobri Zhelyazkov (also spelled Jeliazkov or Zhelyazkovac) established the first textile factory to be built anywhere in the Balkan ...

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Johann Zimmermann (1820–1901)

The Hungarian entrepreneur and inventor Johann Zimmermann (later awarded the title Ritter von Zimmermann) created a factory to design and ...

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Emile Zola (1840–1902)

The novels of Emile Zola depict with startling clarity the inhuman and oppressive aspects of working class life in industrial Europe in ...

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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 ...

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