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 ...
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 ...
Gabriel María Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes (1814–90)
Gabriel Maria Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the business people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in ...
Juan María Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes (1809–87)
Juan Maria Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque ...
John Oliver York was a British civil and mechanical engineer who undertook construction projects in several western European countries. ...
Carl Zeiss, by origin a maker of lenses, was one of the leaders of the photographic industry in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, and ...
In 1834 Dobri Zhelyazkov (also spelled Jeliazkov or Zhelyazkovac) established the first textile factory to be built anywhere in the Balkan ...
The Hungarian entrepreneur and inventor Johann Zimmermann (later awarded the title Ritter von Zimmermann) created a factory to design and ...
The novels of Emile Zola depict with startling clarity the inhuman and oppressive aspects of working class life in industrial Europe in ...
Tomás de Zubiría e Ybarra (1857–1932)
Tomás de Zubiría e Ybarra (later Count Zubiría) was one of the leading industrial entrepreneurs in Spain in the early twentieth century ...