Two engineering principles are named after the hydraulic engineer Professor Otto Intze: one relating to water towers and the other to ...
Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752–1834)
The Jacquard loom was an invention from the beginning of the nineteenth century that came to be known world-wide. By using punched cards ...
Peter Jebsen was born at Broager in the Duchy of Schleswig in present-day Denmark, but after gaining experience in several countries ...
Alojzy Juhlke was one of many millions of East Europeans whose lives were changed utterly by the Second World War. He was born at Tuchola ...
The brilliant inventor John Kay was one of the most significant figures of the early Industrial Revolution. His invention of the flying ...
Alexander Keiller was born in Dundee, Scotland, to the family who successfully established the Keiller brand of marmalade, but he achieved ...
Ludwig Knoop was one of the most successful entrepreneurs in nineteenth-century Europe. He worked in several countries but especially in ...
Commentators called František Křižík the ‘Czech Edison’ – he was a leading inventor and entrepreneur who introduced electricity in ...
The records of the Krupp family in the Rhineland date from 1587, and by the early 19th century their possessions included a forge in Essen ...
Paul La Cour was a pioneer in the application of wind-power, a sphere in which Denmark has led Europe in the twentieth- and twenty-first ...
The German engineering manufacturer Heinrich Lanz created under his own name a brand of agricultural machinery and steam engines that ...
Carl Gustaf Patrick de Laval (1845–1913)
Laval was a Swedish engineer whose innovations profoundly influenced the growth of the dairy industry and the development of steam ...
Henri Louis Le Chatelier was a French scientist, engineer and administrator who promoted economic development and solved technical ...
Nicolas Leblanc had a formative influence on the early chemical industry. In 1787 he devised the process for making alkali that dominated ...
William Hesketh Lever, first Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925)
W H Lever was a successful soap manufacturer who founded the model industrial village of Port Sunlight, one of the most significant of its ...
William Lindley was an engineer and urban planner who spread main sewer design on modern principles across Europe. He was born and died in ...