A pioneer of the British electrical industry, Thomas Parker was described by Lord Kelvin as the "Edison of Europe". He was ahead of his ...
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (1854–1931)
He was born in London of a family whose roots were at Birr in Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated in the ...
Alan Pegler was one of the pioneers of the heritage railway movement in the United Kingdom, which influenced the preservation of historic ...
Sir John Pender was a pioneer of telegraphic communications whose work transformed the nature of the British Empire and of international ...
Armand Peugeot was one of the founders of the French motor car manufacturing industry. He was born at Herimoncourt in eastern France to a ...
Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips was an entrepreneur whose company produced on a large scale some of the consumer goods that characterised ...
Frank Pick was the manager who created what was probably Europe`s best urban passenger transport network of the first half of the 20th ...
Giovanni Battista Pirelli (1848–1942)
The name Pirelli is familiar across Europe, wherever motor cars are driven, and particularly where they are raced or tested in rallies. ...
Christopher Polhem was a polymath whose understanding of the natural world was based on experience gained in many other countries, and who ...
Ferdinand Porsche was one of the outstanding automobile engineers of the 20th century and was principally responsible for the design of ...
Dorothée Pullinger (1894–1986)
Dorothée Pullinger was a British business leader in the automobile and laundry industries. She asserted the rights of women in engineering ...
Emil Rathenau was the founder of one of the most influential German companies of the first half of the 20th century and the patron of the ...
Count Wilhelm Friedrich von Reden (1752–1815)
Count Wilhelm Friedrich von Reden was one of the most influential figures in the development of industry in Upper Silesia. He was the ...
Regout was called the ‘pottery king’ of the Netherlands. He established a powerful family business at Maastricht producing ceramics and ...
Louis Renault, like Armand Peugeot and André Citroën established a motor car manufacturing company that was influential not only in France ...
Henry Ricardo made many innovations in mechanical engineering that had implications throughout Europe, and pioneered the role of the ...