Charles Tennant (1768–1838)

The ability to bleach products was increasingly important during the Industrial Revolution as industries such as cotton manufacturing and ...

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Nikola Tesla (1846–1943)

Tesla was one of the most brilliant and prolific inventors of his generation, remembered for his contributions to electrical power – the ...

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Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–85)

Sidney Gilchrist Thomas was essentially an amateur scientist, and died young, but he was responsible for an innovation that profoundly ...

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Edward Thomas (1794–c.1850)

Edward Thomas was an engineer born in Bristol, England, who developed mechanical engineering companies in the Ruhr region, Saxony and ...

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John (Johann) Edler von Thornton (1771–1847)

John Thornton is an important example of the many individuals who enabled the diffusion of technologies during the Industrial Revolution ...

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August Thyssen (1842–1926)

August Thyssen was one of the principal entrepreneurs in the iron and steel industry of the Ruhrgebiet, whose influence spread throughout ...

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Richard Trevithick (1771–1833)

Richard Trevithick made an enormous contribution to the development of steam power. He developed the use of high-pressure steam, and was ...

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Mårten Triewald (1691–1747)

Mårten Triewald was a merchant, engineer and amateur physicist who did much to introduce new technologies in Sweden in the early ...

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Dr Oscar Troplowitz (1863–1918)

The pharmaceutical industry is often considered to be concerned primarily with drugs that combat disease, but it also encompasses skin ...

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Jethro Tull (1674–1741)

The eighteenth century was a time of rapid change in agriculture in Britain, prompted by the enclosure of common land, the creation of ...

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Nicolás María de Urgoiti y Achúcarro (1869–1951)

Nicolás María de Urgoiti y Achúcarro was a leader of the Spanish paper manufacturing industry who became an important figure in ...

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Juan Urrutia Zulueta (1888–1925)

Juan Urrutia Zulueta was a Basque engineer who became a major figure in hydroelectric power in Spain and contributed to the development of ...

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Jan Verbruggen (1712–81)

Jan Verbruggen was a foundryman through whom important machine tool techniques were transmitted from continental Europe to England where ...

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Sir Cornelius Vermuyden (1595–1683)

Cornelius Vermuyden was one of the most talented of Dutch drainage and waterways engineers, and was responsible for transmitting the ...

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Sir James Walker (1781–1862)

In his youth James Walker worked with some of the outstanding civil engineers of the Industrial Revolution. In his adult years worked on ...

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Wallenberg family ()

The Wallenberg family have been the leading business family in Sweden since the mid-nineteenth century. The business dynasty was begun by ...

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