The eighteenth century was a time of rapid change in agriculture in Britain, prompted by the enclosure of common land, the creation of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jan Verbruggen was a foundryman through whom important machine tool techniques were transmitted from continental Europe to England where ...
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 ...
Axel Wilhelm Wahren was a Swedish businessman who developed the new industrial community of Forssa in Finland in the mid-19th century, one ...
In his youth James Walker worked with some of the outstanding civil engineers of the Industrial Revolution. In his adult years worked on ...
The Wallenberg family have been the leading business family in Sweden since the mid-nineteenth century. The business dynasty was begun by ...
James Watt was a genius of many talents who was at the heart of the technological and economic changes in 18th century Britain that have ...
Joseph Wedgwood was, in his lifetime, the best-known pottery manufacturer in Europe. He made many notable contributions to the means of ...
Jacob Benjamin Wegner was a timber merchant and a major producer of cobalt blue pigment in Norway around the mid-nineteenth century. He ...
Georg Weifert (or Đorđe Vajfert in Serbian) was the principal industrialist in late-nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Serbia. ...
Lazare Weiller was a French engineer, industrialist and politician who developed new technologies in several fields. His companies were ...
Manfréd Weiss von Csepel (1857–1922)
Manfréd Weiss, later Baron von Csepel, was an Austro-Hungarian industrialist in several sectors during the late 19th and early 20th ...
Charles de Wendel was an iron and steel manufacturer in the Lorraine region of north-east France. When he joined the family company it ...
The torpedo was a new weapon developed in the nineteenth century that had a terrible impact in the two world wars. The British engineer ...