Gösta Michael Serlachius (1876–1942)
Gösta Serlachius was one of the leading Finnish entrepreneurs of the first half of the 20th century, an important figure in politics and ...
Carl Wilhelm (Sir Charles William) von Siemens (1823–83)
Carl Wilhelm Siemens invented many industrial processes and held some 113 patents. He was also a successful entrepreneur who spent most of ...
Siemens was the imaginative founder of an electrical company that came to be the largest in Germany, and that from its beginnings was an ...
Emil Skoda was one of the engineers who laid the foundations for the prosperity of heavy industry in the Czech lands in the early ...
Ernest Solvay’s innovations transformed the chemical industry throughout Europe, and were the starting point for a company involved in a ...
The life of Margarete Steiff is an heroic story of triumph over handicaps. It is also a significant part of the industrial history of ...
Steinkeller was a businessman and industrialist in many fields. Like his contemporary in Silesia, Karl Godulla, he was known as ‘king of ...
George Stephenson is often called the father of the modern railway. As a civil engineer of railway routes and a mechanical engineer of ...
During the late German Empire and the early Weimar Republic, the industrialist and politician Hugo Dieter Stinnes created a vast ...
Charles Theodoor Stork (1822–95)
Charles Stork set up an engineering works in Hengelo that transformed the economy of that small town in the eastern part of the ...
Philip Sidney Stott (1858–1937)
Sidney Stott was the best-known of a family of Lancashire architects, specialising in the design of textile mills, whose buildings can ...
Bethel Henry Strousberg (1823–84)
Strousberg was a railway entrepreneur, born Baruch Hirsch Strousberg, to a Jewish family in Neidenburg (then in East Prussia but now ...
Carl Ferdinand Stumm (1836–1901)
Carl Ferdinand Stumm (later von Stumm-Halberg) was a German steel magnate and politician. He expanded his long-established family ...
The engineer Paulin Talabot built the first railway in south-east France and played a key role in proposals for the Suez Canal. Talabot ...
Thomas Telford was one of the first civil engineers to gain an international reputation. He trained as a stone mason in Edinburgh and ...
Tesla was one of the most brilliant and prolific inventors of his generation, remembered for his contributions to electrical power – the ...