Ramón de la Sota y Llano (1857–1936)
Ramón de la Sota y Llano was a Basque industrialist who made a fortune in the partnership Aznar y Sota, at first by mining iron ore and ...
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 ...
Guilherme Stephens (1731–1803)
In eighteenth-century Portugal, Guilherme (originally William) Stephens developed the glass industry and gained a national monopoly, with ...
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 ...
The ability to bleach products was increasingly important during the Industrial Revolution as industries such as cotton manufacturing and ...
Tesla was one of the most brilliant and prolific inventors of his generation, remembered for his contributions to electrical power – the ...
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 ...