André Jules (1853 - 1931) & Edouard Michelin (1859–1940)
From humble beginnings, the brothers Michelin established one of the world’s principal tyre-manufacturing companies, set up a global ...
Oskar von Miller was a talented Bavarian electrical engineer who is best known as the founder of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He was a ...
William Thomas Mulvany (1806–85)
Mulvany was an Irish surveyor and entrepreneur who prospered in the Ruhrgebiet, and did much to transfer British mining technology to ...
Josep Antoni Muntadas y Campeny (1816–80)
Josep Antoni Muntadas y Campeny was one of the leaders of the large-scale cotton industry in Spain. He founded the company known as La ...
The mechanical engineer William Murdoch (or Murdock) was one of the most brilliant and prolific inventors of the British Industrial ...
John Murray III was one of several British publishers whose guidebooks popularised the concept of touring holidays by rail in foreign ...
Jacob (or Iacob) Muschong was a highly successful manufacturer of bricks and tiles who became one of the richest people in Romania. He ...
Georges Nagelmackers (1845–1905)
Georges Nagelmackers established an international company that came to symbolise luxury travel by rail. He was born in Liège to a wealthy ...
James Nasmyth was an innovative engineer and a successful entrepreneur, whose writings about his early career are a valuable source of ...
Henri (Heinrich) Nestlé (1814–90)
Henri Nestle was born in 1814 in Frankfurt-am-Main, then a free city, was apprenticed as a pharmacist, and practised his profession after ...
Thomas Newcomen, an ironmonger from the port of Dartmouth in Devon, became aware of the difficulties of draining tin and copper mines in ...
Marie Nisser was an art historian who came to be fascinated by the industrial heritage and greatly influenced its development not only in ...
Alfred Berhard Nobel (1833–96)
Born in Sweden, the Alfred Nobel spent moved to Russia in 1842, where his father was employed in a mechanical engineering workshop in St ...
Ludwig (1831 - 88) & Robert Nobel (1829–96)
The member of the Nobel family most remembered today is Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel prizes. However, his ...
Rudolf August Oetker (1916–2007)
Companies making food additives, for use in the home or in large-scale manufacturing, prospered in most economically advanced European ...
Robert Owen was one of the most influential figures of the Industrial Revolution, a successful and philanthropic factory owner, a pioneer ...