William Wilkinson was the principal channel through which British innovations in ironmaking in the 18th century were transferred to ...
(Owen) Alfred Williams was a poet and writer, whose account of more than 20 years employment at the locomotive works of the Great Western ...
Karl Wittgenstein was a person of restless energy who transformed himself into a brilliant but ruthless promoter of the iron and steel ...
The life of Arno Wolff, like that of so many European working men, was shaped by the Second World War. He was born in East Prussia. His ...
Eryk Josef Woszczychi (1921–2002)
Migration in search of work has always been part of the pattern of industrialisation. In the years after the Second World War many ...
Gabriel María Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes (1814–90)
Gabriel Maria Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the business people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in ...
Juan María Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes (1809–87)
Juan Maria Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque ...
John Oliver York was a British civil and mechanical engineer who undertook construction projects in several western European countries. ...
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 ...
Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (1838–1917)
Ferdinand von Zeppelin developed and manufactured the most successful rigid airships of all time and created the world’s first ...
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 ...