valuable source for the history of industry throughout Europe, and those of Angerstein, held in the Jernkontoret headquarters in Stockholm, and published in England in 2000, are perhaps the most informative [...] travelled through Denmark to Germany, Carinthia, Hungary, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland and England, before returning to Sweden in 1755 through the Low Countries. He assumed responsible positions both [...] visit to Britain, but he also showed an understanding of the diversity of the market for iron in England, and of the way in which niches in it could be filled by imports from Russia, Spain and the Netherlands

genius, and an influential advocate over many years for the conservation of the industrial heritage of North-East England. He was born at Mapplewell, a coal-mining community in Yorkshire, the son of a plumber [...] to investigate ways of study and preserving artefacts and buildings relating to the social and industrial history of the region. A site became available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson

in 1844 and was followed by 38 new editions by 1937. Guides were published to France in 1852, to England in 1863, to Italy in 1860, to Norway and Sweden in 1879, to Greece in 1889 and to Spain and Portugal [...] (1874-1959). The company moved in the mid-1870s from Koblenz to the centre of the German publishing industry in Leipzig. Perhaps no company did more to encourage the habit of travelling across Europe and gaining

Batawa. In 1932 a village in the Garden City style was built around a factory at East Tilbury in England. Bat’a was skilled in marketing as well as in manufacturing and his shops became familiar features [...] 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

Bauwens was an entrepreneur and industrial spy who spread new cotton manufacturing technologies from England to Belgium and France at a key point in the early Industrial Revolution. He was born in Ghent [...] 17 his father sent him to England to learn from industrialists there, and when he returned in 1789 he set up a very large tannery on modern principles. While he was in England Bauwens also saw the great [...] the cotton industry. At the age of 27 he opened his first cotton factory, which was at Passy near Paris. Very soon afterwards he opened two cotton factories at Ghent. He had seen in England the importance

in Germany, particularly in the Siegerland, but in 1966 they made a lengthy tour of the industrial areas of England and South Wales in a VW camper van towing an aged caravan. They staged an acclaimed exhibition [...] and Hilla Becher (née Wobeser) transformed the ways in which we all view the monuments of past industries, showing that ruins can have dramatic and aesthetic qualities. Bernd Becher was born in the Siegerland [...] and two years later, when both were freelance photographers, began collaborating in photographing industrial monuments 1959. They married in 1961. The Bechers developed a new approaches and are regarded as

Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) at Lyon and Grenoble in 1981 which led to the setting up of a group responsible for establishing a national inventory of industrial heritage at the Ministry [...] Amongst his many publications, two of the most important are Industrial Heritage: a new territory (with Grace Dorel-Ferré, 1996) and Luxury Industries in France (1998) [...] Bergeron was a distinguished French scholar who did much to establish the value of the study of industrial heritage with international bodies such as ICOMOS and UNESCO. He was born in Strasbourg and studied

Bessemer was a professional inventor with 129 patents across many industries. He came from a Huguenot family of printers in the south-east of England. His father, Anthony Bessemer, went to France as a young man [...] man to work for the Paris mint but returned to England during the French Revolution and began a type-foundry. After elementary school, Bessemer educated himself in his father’s workshop, experimenting with [...] iron broke easily, he decided to investigate a better material. With little knowledge of the iron industry, he tried an original idea of blowing air through molten iron in an open crucible – his ‘converter’

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 [...] published his 1:31680 scale Map of the Canals, Rivers, Rail Roads &c in the Midland Counties of England , which he dedicated to Thomas Telford (1757-1834), which was followed in 1833 by tables of the levels [...] from c .1900 by Henry Blacklock. The Bradshaw timetables remained essential works of reference in England, and publications about continental Europe multiplied. The company produced a guide to Belgium in

British canal engineer in the early part of the Industrial Revolution. He was responsible for a network of waterways that became the arteries of Britain’s industrial regions and linked its principal navigable [...] began the great age of canals as the arteries to transport the fuel, raw materials and products of industrial Britain. This was the 66-km Bridgewater Canal, completed in 1761, which carried coal to Manchester [...] north to London in the south. Several canals made up his scheme to join the four great rivers of England, the ‘Grand Cross’. This project was led by landowners and industrialists and financed by shareholders

with the onset of the revolutionary wars, emigrated to the United States in 1793, and settled in England in 1799. Between 1805 and 1812 he built the block-making works in the dockyard at Portsmouth, where [...] France from 1822, where he acquired a taste for the Egyptian style in architecture. On returning to England he worked for his father on the construction of the Thames Tunnel in east London, where he was seriously [...] and a full member in 1837. In the early 1830s he sought work on several projects in north-east England but worked principally on the improvement of the docks in Bristol. In 1833 he became involved in

innovations in the fields of civil engineering and manufacturing. Born in France, Brunel settled in England, where his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, became the most famous of all Victorian engineers. Although [...] went on to design several sawmills and develop machines for the textiles, printing and boot-making industries among others. Nevertheless, he was imprisoned for debts and was released only after political [...] interventions. Brunel’s other achievements were in civil engineering. He manufactured in England a suspension bridge designed to withstand hurricanes on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean

the idea of the cotton factory from England to mainland Europe. In 1771, Richard Arkwright built the first water-powered mill for spinning cotton at Cromford in England. This developed the idea of the factory [...] Ratingen, in North-Rhine Westphalia in 1783-4 he gave it the name Cromford. The building is now an industrial museum. Brügelmann grew up in a family of merchants at Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. [...] the innovations by Arkwright he decided to try to copy them. His friend Carl Albrecht Delius made industrial espionage visits to Britain in 1781 and 1782 to draw plans, get copies of machines and recruit

his patent with important results for the textile industry worldwide. Cartwright was born in the east midlands of England, near Nottingham. He studied at Oxford University and became a clergyman in his home [...] of £10,000 by the British government in recognition of his achievements for industry. He retired to a farm in south-east England where he died aged 80. Although he proved that weaving by machine was possible [...] The Church of 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

Demidow dynasty of industrialists. From 1820 Yefim was chief mechanical engineer for the various industrial complexes in the area. Mirom, his son, was his apprentice and eventually his successor. In 1810 [...] Tagil region. From 1820 he built about 20 steam engines of various kinds. He spent some time in England in the 1820s, and on his return, in 1833-34, he and his son built the first Russian steam locomotive

In 1784, Henry Cort invented one of the most important iron-making processes of the Industrial Revolution. This was a new method of transforming cast iron into the more versatile and valuable material [...] making it possible to have much larger, integrated ironworks. Cort was born in Lancaster, northern England, in 1740 or 1741. By the age of around 16 he was working as a naval agent – someone who gave out

on a tour of Europe during which he studied cotton manufacturing in France, Germany and England. While in England he worked for a spell at Platt Brothers, Oldham near Manchester, then the world’s largest [...] Benigno Crespi was principally responsible for the building of Crespi d’Adda the most spectacular industrial community in Italy. The cotton mills at Crespi d’Adda, established by his father in 1878, were

also a mentor to the scientist Michael Faraday. Davy was born in Penzance, as the south-west end of England, where his father worked as a woodcarver. He was apprenticed to a local surgeon, in whose drug dispensary [...] of Accidents in Coalmines asked Davy if he could solve the problem after a disaster in north-east England killed 92 men. He began experiments in his laboratory to test mine gas. A few months later he presented [...] were used widely. The risk of explosion was much reduced but accidents continued as the coalmining industry grew and extended to more dangerous workings.

summarised in 1805 by Thomas Telford who called him "the model and root of the canal navigation of England … by his exertions and example (he) turned a great portion of British talent and capital into a direction [...] goods, of agricultural produce, and for other purposes, the prime purpose of the canals of the Industrial Revolution period throughout Europe was to carry coal.

Friedrich Engels wrote one of the classic critiques of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution in England, devoted much of his life to supporting and publicising the writings of Karl Marx, and was [...] who worked in the textile cities of northern England during the 19th century. Within twenty months he wrote "The Condition of the Working Classes in England", which was published in 1845. It reflects the [...] house of 1775, is preserved as part of the city`s history centre, which also includes a museum of industrial archaeology. He was the son of a cotton manufacturer, and spent three years in the employment of