Johann Baptist Čžjžek Edler von Smidaich was one of the leading entrepreneurs in the Habsburg Empire with interests in several major industries as well as in finance. His father was the geologist Joha

George Stephenson is often called the father of the modern railway. As a civil engineer of railway routes and a mechanical engineer of rails and locomotives during the industrial revolution, he transf

As a young man Robert Stephenson worked closely with his father, the giant of railway history George Stephenson . Later, he became one of the greatest civil and mechanical engineers of the 19th centur

The inventor and businessman Andras Mechwart led the Ganz engineering company at Budapest after the death in 1867 of its founder, Abraham Ganz . He joined the company in 1859 and remained with it for

Matthias Schönerer (later awarded the title Ritter von Schönerer) was an engineer who pioneered railways in Austria. Schönerer came from the area south of Graz in Austria, where his family were farmer

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 the twentieth century the successors to the company he foun

Ernst Karl Abbe was a German physicist who, in partnership with Carl Zeiss , revolutionised the manufacture of optical glass and microscopes. He and became head of the Carl Zeiss company, one of the w

The Wallenberg family have been the leading business family in Sweden since the mid-nineteenth century. The business dynasty was begun by André Oscar Wallenberg and its business was expanded by his so

Abraham Ganz founded an engineering company in Budapest that became the largest in Hungary and influenced developments in technology, particularly in roller milling and electric traction, beyond the b

Johanna von Schaffgotsch managed and expanded a vast industrial empire in Silesia and became one of the wealthiest women in Europe. Born Johanna Gryzik, she was the daughter of a miner who died when s

Gabriel Maria Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the business people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in bank

Juan Maria Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking, mining