Besant (nee Wood) led a long, varied and eventful life, and for a few years played a crucial role in industrial history. She was the daughter of an insurance underwriter in the City of London, and was educated

Stumm-Halberg carefully but steadily expanded the company into a market leader in the German steel industry. The three ironworks at Fischbacker, Halberg and Neunkirchen produced pig iron, castings, armour

control and had to sell property to pay his debts. Nevertheless, by 1913 TLH was one of the largest industrial companies in France and the country’s third largest manufacturer of electrical equipment. Weiller

more than a century. He also produced publications that are of continuing value to historians of industry and transport. Bradshaw was born at Pendleton near Manchester and trained as an engraver and printer

The engineer and entrepreneur Marc Séguin made important contributions to the industrial development of France, especially in the 1820s and 1830s. He pioneered French railways, patented the multi-tube

company in 1886 and quickly gained a reputation for innovation in the growing cycle and motor car industries. Pneumatic tyres for bicycles were stuck to wheels with adhesive, which made it difficult to repair

Margarete Steiff is an heroic story of triumph over handicaps. It is also a significant part of the industrial history of Europe, of the growing tendency in the closing years of the 19th century to manufacture

and rubber technology, and was a leading figure in a period of success and prosperity for Czech industry. When Tomáš Bat’a died his company employed 31,000 people, a total which increased to 65,000 in

The career of Coco Chanel exemplifies the power of brands in twentieth-century industry and the extension of the market for luxury goods from limited circles of rich people to a much wider public. She

"Żyrardów". Till the end of his stay in the Kingdom of Poland, Girard remained a technical advisor in industrial undertakings of the Bank of Poland for Count Henryk Łubieński (sugar factory in Guzów), Gen. Count