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 ...
In his youth James Walker worked with some of the outstanding civil engineers of the Industrial Revolution. In his adult years worked on ...
The Wallenberg family have been the leading business family in Sweden since the mid-nineteenth century. The business dynasty was begun by ...
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 ...
Georg Weifert (or Đorđe Vajfert in Serbian) was the principal industrialist in late-nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Serbia. ...
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 ...
The torpedo was a new weapon developed in the nineteenth century that had a terrible impact in the two world wars. The British engineer ...
William Wilkinson was the principal channel through which British innovations in ironmaking in the 18th century were transferred to ...
(Owen) Alfred Williams was a poet and writer, whose account of more than 20 years employment at the locomotive works of the Great Western ...
Karl Wittgenstein was a person of restless energy who transformed himself into a brilliant but ruthless promoter of the iron and steel ...
The life of Arno Wolff, like that of so many European working men, was shaped by the Second World War. He was born in East Prussia. His ...
Eryk Josef Woszczychi (1921–2002)
Migration in search of work has always been part of the pattern of industrialisation. In the years after the Second World War many ...