was born in Pantschowa (now Penčevo) in Austria-Hungary, on the border with Serbia and across the River Danube from Belgrade. His family were German; his grandfather came to Pantschowa after 1800 and e

railway in Germany. He became engineer to the Surrey Commercial Docks, on the south bank of the River Thames in London, in 1810, and retained the position for the rest of his life. He also directed harbour

with lead-mining in the Wirksworth region of Derbyshire, and with a scheme to make navigable the River Derwent in that county. From 1629 until 1637 he was engaged in the drainage of the Great Fen or Bedford [...] Bedford Level in the Cambridgeshire Fens, where he was responsible for building the Old Bedford River and the Forty Foot Drain, waterways that remain crucial components of the drainage system that has made [...] the execution of Charles I, and between 1649 and 1652 directed the excavation of the new Bedford River, draining some 16,000 ha of land. From 1653 he served as ambassador of Lord Protector Cromwell to

stations on other rivers across Spain with the aim of providing electricity for key industrial regions without the need for a national grid. They supplied Madrid from a station in the river basin of the Tajo [...] was approached by Eduardo Aznar y Tutor, who owned rights to exploit water in the catchment of the river Ebro, which flows east from the Basque country to Catalunya. The result was the creation of the first

asked to consult on improvements to the canal between the Mediterranean at Aigues-Mortes and the river Rhône at Beaucaire. After considering the problems of water shortages in summer he recommended a railway [...] a 122-km long line from Avignon to Marseille, which included constructing a 600-m bridge over the river Rhône and the 4,638-m Nerth tunnel. The financial crisis after the Revolution of 1848 led to the merger

findings in 1824. He demonstrated the technology on a much larger scale with his bridge across the river Rhône at Tournon, opened in 1825, which had two spans of 85 m each. Séguin and his brothers invested [...] same model and influenced hundreds more. Séguin developed a scheme to improve the navigation of the river Rhône with steam engines that towed vessels from fixed points. His company was bankrupted when a vessel

valley where his father ran a coal mine and shipping business established by his grandfather on the rivers Ruhr and Rhine. After secondary school, Stinnes received business training in an office in Koblenz [...] Stinnes trust. With the profits from distributing coal he purchased a shipyard and seagoing vessels, river steamers and barges. He organised international trade using thirteen steamers to carry coal, wood

London & Birmingham Railway, opened in 1838. At Newcastle, he designed the high-level bridge over the River Tyne, which carried road and rail decks one above the other. He tackled the challenging railway route [...] North America and India. Among his notable structures were tubular bridges over the Saint Lawrence River in Canada and the Nile in Egypt. In Britain, he worked with his father to influence the ‘battle of

and set up a zinc works in London. With Konstanty Wolicki he developed a transport business on the river Vistula, operating 51 sailing vessels and in 1828 purchasing the first steamboat in Poland. Among

1907 and 1910. His greatest achievement was the construction in 1890-95 of the bridge across the River Danube between Cernavodǎ on the right bank and Fetești on the left, which, with a total length of

up in rural mid-Wales, where his father was a shoemaker and tollkeeper for the New Bridge over the River Vyrnwy. While he was a boy the aqueduct for the Montgomeryshire Canal was built next to the toll house

involved in the construction of the 46 km Kłodnica Canal built between 1792 and 1812 from Kózle on River Oder to Gleiwitz and with the construction of the iron bridge at Laasan near Breslau (Wrocław) in

Périer built at Chaillot. He installed his first steam engine on a specially built canal from the River Seine at Chaillot in 1781. It pumped water to four interconnected stone-walled reservoirs at Passy [...] al status to the whole enterprise. Périer installed further engines and water intakes across the river at Gros-Caillou and upstream at Gare de l'Hôpital and the Arsenal. An original model of the double-acting

calendar. The Pirelli skyscraper now occupies the site of Giovanni Pirelli’s first factory alongside the River Sevesette in Milan.

the Netherlands that had previously been economically backward. He was born at Zaltbommel on the River Waal, the son of a banker, and in his twenties began to investigate the incandescent lamp that had

became a partner in the Chorlton Twist Co, which in 1799 acquired the mills at New Lanark, on the River Clyde in Scotland, that had been built by Richard Arkwright in partnership with David Dale (1739-1806)

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923). The foundation stone of the museum was laid on an island in the River Isar at Munich in 1906, but it was not until 1925 that the first galleries opened and the library

engine, was the earliest site of the SSWC. He sat on many Royal Commissions including projects for the River Thames sewage system, the Thames Embankment and the Suez Canal. He was called in to advise Napoleon

canal to London to be rebuilt and launched. In 1822 it crossed the English Channel and went up the River Seine to Paris. Among the ship’s innovations were its steam engines, which were of the oscillating

completed a new five-storey factory next to Crotchett’s mill in 1721, which used water-power from the river Derwent. Their business became highly successful, producing far more silk threat than the English