The Ljungström brothers of Sweden were internationally recognised inventors and designers in mechanical engineering and materials science. They registered hundreds of patents and established companies [...] patented the Ljungström Turbine in 1908. Their father Jonas Patrik Ljungström was a land surveyor and inventor who became a map-maker for the Swedish government and ran his own factory making precision instruments [...] instrument factory and trained at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Their mentor was the inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. As early as 1892, they invented the ‘Svea Velocipede’ bicycle with

Musée Nicéphore Niépce is the place where the very first photograph in the world was taken by the inventor of photography himself: Nicéphore Niépce. Among other things, the House houses the oldest photographic

The member of the Nobel family most remembered today is Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel prizes. However, his brothers Ludwig and Robert were major industrialists. They were [...] workers producing 50% of the world’s oil. The father of the Nobel brothers was the Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist Immanuel Nobel. When his sons were children he moved to St Petersburg in Russia

inventions that did most to change society in the twentieth century. European, American and Japanese inventors attempted to transmit still images or moving pictures from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. John [...] a mechanical scan system based on the Nipkow disc, which had been patented in 1884 by the German inventor Paul Gottlieb Nipkow. He set up the Baird Television Development Company and worked with collaborators

England clergyman, poet and inventor Edmond Cartwright started a revolution in the mechanisation of textile weaving. While his own machines were ineffective, other inventors developed his patent with important

concrete columns and beams filled with brick to designs by Eugène Freyssinet (1879-1962), one of the inventors of prestressed concrete. The tall headframe was built from concrete in 1920. Visitors can travel

Marconi was both an inventor and an entrepreneur, the pioneer of radio in Europe. He was born in Bologna to an Italian father and an Irish mother. In his twenties he began to use the radio waves demonstrated [...] William) Preece, the chief engineer at the Post Office. His system drew much from the work of other inventors, which led to many legal suits regarding patents, but it was a system that worked, and Marconi

power to be concentrated wherever it was needed. The evolution of the technology relied on many inventors and makers who gradually spread the use of engines to all parts of the world. Richard Williams was [...] pumping water out of mines was immediately recognised and after 20 years about 100 were in use. Many inventors developed the technology, most famously James Watt, who protected his designs with patents and great

scientists and inventors. He was born on 1st February 1775 in France in a town of Lourmarin. He studied medicine in Montpellier and then, chemical and natural sciences in Marseille. The inventor’s career began [...] and technical concepts spurred the construction of a large flax factory in Żyrardów. To honor the inventor’s accomplishments, the new settlement was called "Żyrardów". Till the end of his stay in the Kingdom

c drinks, with machinery in working order. Other unusual items are a gas engine made by a local inventor, a self-winding clock of 1866 and a motor car made in 1914 by the Horstmann Car Company of Bath

the oldest surviving planned mining community in the region. The nine rows were all named after inventors in the field of electricity, including Ampère, Volta, Franklin and Faraday. The houses were of a

through telegraph, telephone and wireless communication. The role of Danish entrepreneurs and inventors is highlighted, such as invention of the bow transmitter in 1902 by Valdemar Poulsen and the promotion

bridges and buildings. Although best known for his work with steel, Bessemer was a professional inventor with 129 patents across many industries. He came from a Huguenot family of printers in the south-east [...] workshop, experimenting with lathes and the metal used to cast printing type. He began his career as an inventor aged 17 when his father moved his business to London. Early inventions were in electroplating, type

because its collection contains Tesla's valuable legacy. Tesla (1856 - 1943) is a Serbian-American inventor and scientist, a pioneer in electrification, significantly influenced the technological development

and woodland. The funicular was designed at 1000mm-gauge by the Swiss engineer Carl Roman Abt, the inventor of central passing places to avoid the need for double tracks. It was made by Niklaus Riggenbach

The brilliant inventor John Kay was one of the most significant figures of the early Industrial Revolution. His invention of the flying shuttle for weaving stimulated successive inventions in the mechanisation [...] frequently. He travelled around England selling the new wires to weavers. After this first success as an inventor, Kay looked for other ways to improve textile manufacture. In 1730 he patented a machine for twisting

Cragside was the country home of the inventor and industrialist William Armstrong, who developed hydraulic equipment, shipbuilding and armaments. He used many inventions on his own property. At Cragside

The engineer Thomas Crampton (1816-88) was a prolific inventor and built waterworks, railways and telegraph systems all over Europe, but throughout his life he retained links with his native town, the

the mighty waterwheel powering the stocks as they thump the wet woollen cloth. Discover famous inventors and international textile industry treasures including an Arkwright Water Frame from the 1780’s

industrial revolution. The company was a partnership between the inventor and steam-engine designer James Watt and the businessman and inventor Matthew Boulton. It became the most influential engineering business