foremost European industrial designers of the 20th century. He spent most of his life in Paris and was best-known before the Second World War for his concept cars. He produced ‘La Baleine’ (the whale) on a [...] which is acknowledged as the ancestor of all bubble cars. An example is preserved in Mulhouse. He was best known for his railway designs, and was the principle influence on the design of locomotives and passenger

Frank Pick was the manager who created what was probably Europe`s best urban passenger transport network of the first half of the 20th century. The son of a Congregationalist draper from Spalding, Lincolnshire [...] commissioned posters from leading artists and attractive but hard-wearing upholstery fabrics from the best textile designers. In 1913-16 Edward Johnson (1872-1944) designed for him the typeface that, in a

Eusebi Guell was a Catalan textile entrepreneur, best known as a patron of the architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) and as the creator of a workers’ colony in the tradition established in Britain by Robert

galleries. Bernd Becher was professor at Düsseldorf Kunstakademie between 1976 and 1996. Their work is best known through their books, Water Towers (1988), Blast Furnaces (1990), Gasholders (1993), Mine Headstocks

prize at the Thuringia Industrial Exhibition in 1861, where his exhibits were said to be amongst the best scientific instruments made in Germany. He produced his thousandth microscope in 1866. He co-operated

Oskar von Miller was a talented Bavarian electrical engineer who is best known as the founder of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He was a member of a wealthy family and was admitted in 1875 to the Bavarian

Sidney Stott was the best-known of a family of Lancashire architects, specialising in the design of textile mills, whose buildings can still be seen all over Europe and further afield. The first architect

Robert Bosch is best-known in the history of technology for his role in the development of the spark plug, and in business history as the founder of what has become a global electronics group. He was born

Alderney, and in Hamburg in 1845. He was consultant engineer for the construction of one of London’s best known landmarks, the tower of the Houses of Parliament universally known as ‘Big Ben’. His most important

bridges at Chaumont in the 19th arrondisement of Paris in 1867 and at Bry-sur-Marne in 1893-4. His best-known and most spectacular achievements were the wrought-iron frame for the Statue of Liberty, whose

Joseph Wedgwood was, in his lifetime, the best-known pottery manufacturer in Europe. He made many notable contributions to the means of producing high-quality ceramic wares, and, in a broader sense, to

Thomas Russell Crampton is best-known as the designer of a distinctive type of steam locomotive that was more popular in continental Europe than in his native England, but he was also a distinguished civil

delegates, such as Marie Nisser from Sweden. He travelled extensively in continental Europe and was best known as the museologist who established the European Museum of the Year award in 1987. His name is

make the objects of the modern world – railways, ships, machines, bridges and buildings. Although best known for his work with steel, Bessemer was a professional inventor with 129 patents across many

people should not need to choose between town or country but be able to live in ‘town-country’ with the best of both. His work was a reaction against overcrowding in industrial cities and the unplanned sprawl

Éttorre Bugatti is best known as the builder of some of Europe’s most prestigious performance cars, but his interests extended to other forms of engineering, and he succeeded in managing a business of

which was followed in 1833 by tables of the levels and lengths of inland waterways. Bradshaw became best known as a publisher of information about railway services. He was one of several British writers

London, and the terminus building at London Bridge station of 1841-44, both of which remain. He was best-known as the designer of apartments for the working class. In 1835 he built the Sailors` Home in Well

some of their workpeople. Abraham Darby III (1750-89) Abraham Darby III, son of Abraham Darby II, is best known as the builder of the Iron Bridge, whose erection he supervised as a young man in his twenties