George Bradshaw, cartographer, printer, engraver and publisher publicised the concept of travelling by rail for enjoyment and education ...
Thomas Brassey was the first civil engineering contractor to work on a European, or rather on a global scale. He had the ability to manage ...
Wernher von Braun was one of the outstanding pioneers of rocket propulsion of the 20th century, and designed the rockets that enabled ...
Vincenzo Stefano Breda (1825–1903)
Breda was among the most important engineers and entrepreneurs of nineteenth-century Italy. He was born in 1825 at Limena, close to the ...
James Brindley was the leading British canal engineer in the early part of the Industrial Revolution. He was responsible for a network of ...
Johann Gottfried Brügelmann (1750–1802)
Johann Gottfried Brügelmann brought the idea of the cotton factory from England to mainland Europe. In 1771, Richard Arkwright built the ...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–59)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the most imaginative figure in the heroic age of British civil engineering. He was the son of Sir Marc ...
Éttorre Bugatti is best known as the builder of some of Europe’s most prestigious performance cars, but his interests extended to other ...
Reinhold Burger was born in the glassmaking community at Baruth, south of Berlin, and through his work in glass technology did much to ...
The Church of England clergyman, poet and inventor Edmond Cartwright started a revolution in the mechanisation of textile weaving. While ...
The career of Coco Chanel exemplifies the power of brands in twentieth-century industry and the extension of the market for luxury goods ...
Yefim (1774 - 1842) & Miron Yefimvich Cherapanow (1803–1849)
Yefim Cherapanov (1774-1842) and his son Miron Yefimovich Cherapanov (1803-49) lived in the ironworking city of Nizhny Tagil in the Urals ...
Paris, for many decades in the twentieth century, was one of Europe’s principal motor car manufacturing centres, and on a 19 ha site at ...
John Cockerill was the archetype of those British engineers who took the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to continental Europe ...
Thomas Cook was one of several entrepreneurs who in the mid-nineteenth century popularised railway travel throughout Europe through ...
In 1784, Henry Cort invented one of the most important iron-making processes of the Industrial Revolution. This was a new method of ...