STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE: BIOGRAPHIES
History is always made by people. Of course, this also applies to the age of the industrial revolution. Industrial history is also not only told through architectural evidence such as mines, production plants or workers' settlements. Just as important are the people of both sexes: inventors, entrepreneurs, financiers and above all the workers.
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In the following, we present more than 270 biographies of selected personalities who have influenced the industrial history of Europe, their countries, regions, cities or a branch of industry ...
Giovanni Sacchi was a maker of wooden models whose work had a profound influence on the design of consumer goods in the second half of the ...
Anghel Saligny was one of the most distinguished civil engineers in Europe in the late nineteenth century and is particularly celebrated ...
Sir Titus Salt was one of the most eminent entrepreneurs in Victorian Britain, and left a lasting legacy of buildings. He was born at ...
Sir Bernhard Samuelson (1820–1905)
Bernhard Samuelson promoted the international diffusion of technology in the iron and steel and mechanical engineering industries, and ...
Johanna von Schaffgotsch (1842–1910)
Johanna von Schaffgotsch managed and expanded a vast industrial empire in Silesia and became one of the wealthiest women in Europe. Born ...
Karl Wilhelm Scheibler (1820–1881)
Karl (or Karol) Scheibler learned about the mechanised textile industries in several parts of Europe and took his knowledge to Łodz in ...
With his wife Malwine, the Swiss textile entrepreneur Jacques Schiesser established a company to make underwear in 1875 at Radolfzell in ...
Joseph-Eugene Schneider (1805–75)
Joseph-Eugene Schneider (1803-75) and his brother Adolphe (1802-48), whose origins were at Bazeilles near Sedan in Lorraine, gained ...
Matthias Schönerer (later awarded the title Ritter von Schönerer) was an engineer who pioneered railways in Austria. Schönerer came from ...
Johann Heinrich Schüle (1720–1811)
Johann Heinrich Schüle was a pioneer in the industrial-scale production of printed cotton fabric in eighteenth-century Bavaria. He broke ...
The engineer and entrepreneur Marc Séguin made important contributions to the industrial development of France, especially in the 1820s ...
Alois Senefelder invented and patented lithographic printing, which became the dominant method for reproducing images in the printing ...
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 ...
Siemens was the imaginative founder of an electrical company that came to be the largest in Germany, and that from its beginnings was an ...
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 ...
Companhia União Fabril (CUF) was the largest Portuguese business group of the early twentieth century. It was substantially the creation ...