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 ...
Yefim (1774 - 1842) & Miron Yefimvich Cherepanow (1803–1849)
Yefim Cherepanov (1774-1842) and his son Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov (1803-49) lived in the ironworking city of Nizhny Tagil in the Urals ...
Paris, for many decades in the twentieth century, was one of Europe’s principal motor car manufacturing centres, and on a 19 ha site at ...
John Cockerill was the archetype of those British engineers who took the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to continental Europe ...
Thomas Cook was one of several entrepreneurs who in the mid-nineteenth century popularised railway travel throughout Europe through ...
In 1784, Henry Cort invented one of the most important iron-making processes of the Industrial Revolution. This was a new method of ...
Theodor von Cramer-Klett (1817–84)
Theodor von Cramer-Klett (born Theodor Cramer) was born in Vienna and initially worked in his father’s soap business in that city. Later ...
Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–88)
Thomas Russell Crampton is best-known as the designer of a distinctive type of steam locomotive that was more popular in continental ...
Silvio Benigno Crespi (1868–1944)
Silvio Benigno Crespi was principally responsible for the building of Crespi d’Adda the most spectacular industrial community in Italy. ...
Johann Baptist Czjzek Edler von Smidaich (1841–1925)
Johann Baptist Čžjžek Edler von Smidaich was one of the leading entrepreneurs in the Habsburg Empire with interests in several major ...
Gottlieb Daimler was one of the outstanding pioneers of the motor industry. Born at Schorndorf, Wurtemburg, he studied at the Polytechnic ...
The Darby dynasty were important figures in the British iron industry for nearly two centuries, and were responsible for innovations that ...
Abiah Darby (nee Maude, other married name Sinclair) was the wife of Abraham Darby II (1711-63) of Coalbrookdale, the ironmaster who, in ...
The civil engineer William Dargon is rightly regarded as the ‘father of Irish railways’. He was born in Co Laoise (then Queen’s County), ...
Leisure pursuits, links with sporting stars and the cult of celebrity and powerful brand names are characteristics of some twenty-first ...
Zino Davidoff established himself as one of Europe’s principal suppliers of cigars, and his name remains one of the most powerful brands ...
Humphry Davy was a distinguished scientist who changed coalmining with his design for a safety lamp. As a scientist he was a pioneer of ...