Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–85)
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas was essentially an amateur scientist, and died young, but he was responsible for an innovation that profoundly ...
Edward Thomas was an engineer born in Bristol, England, who developed mechanical engineering companies in the Ruhr region, Saxony and ...
John (Johann) Edler von Thornton (1771–1847)
John Thornton is an important example of the many individuals who enabled the diffusion of technologies during the Industrial Revolution ...
August Thyssen was one of the principal entrepreneurs in the iron and steel industry of the Ruhrgebiet, whose influence spread throughout ...
Richard Trevithick (1771–1833)
Richard Trevithick made an enormous contribution to the development of steam power. He developed the use of high-pressure steam, and was ...
Mårten Triewald was a merchant, engineer and amateur physicist who did much to introduce new technologies in Sweden in the early ...
Dr Oscar Troplowitz (1863–1918)
The pharmaceutical industry is often considered to be concerned primarily with drugs that combat disease, but it also encompasses skin ...
The eighteenth century was a time of rapid change in agriculture in Britain, prompted by the enclosure of common land, the creation of ...
Jan Verbruggen was a foundryman through whom important machine tool techniques were transmitted from continental Europe to England where ...
Sir Cornelius Vermuyden (1595–1683)
Cornelius Vermuyden was one of the most talented of Dutch drainage and waterways engineers, and was responsible for transmitting the ...
In his youth James Walker worked with some of the outstanding civil engineers of the Industrial Revolution. In his adult years worked on ...
James Watt was a genius of many talents who was at the heart of the technological and economic changes in 18th century Britain that have ...
Joseph Wedgwood was, in his lifetime, the best-known pottery manufacturer in Europe. He made many notable contributions to the means of ...
Jacob Benjamin Wegner was a timber merchant and a major producer of cobalt blue pigment in Norway around the mid-nineteenth century. He ...
Lazare Weiller was a French engineer, industrialist and politician who developed new technologies in several fields. His companies were ...
Charles de Wendel was an iron and steel manufacturer in the Lorraine region of north-east France. When he joined the family company it ...