Britain. Within a few years he opened a dyeing plant and a steam-powered weaving mill on the same site. By 1852, the factory employed 250 people. In 1859, Wahren acquired a weaving mill at Viksberg and
capital from his wife’s family and in 1761 he began building a large water-powered factory on a new site at Soho near Birmingham to manufacture small metal goods such as buttons, belt buckles and clock parts
Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879-1953), who gave her a home in Mayfair and, in 1927, a site on the Riviera where she built her villa La Pausa . In the late 1930s she went to Hollywood to do
camouflage for the rocket research establishment at Peenemunde. He escaped during the confusion after the site was bombed and made his way across Europe, passing through Lille and Gibraltar en route to England
leader in typewriters, calculators and computers and is still a global brand. Ivrea is a World Heritage site, where both the Laboratory-Museum and the Olivetti Historical Archive present Olivetti’s story.
the Oranienburger Tor, where he served for some years as works manager. He subsequently acquired a site for a foundry on Chausseestrasse adjacent to his former employer`s works, where the first castings [...] shops and a foundry in Kirchstrase in 1850, by which time he was employing 1,800 men on the three sites. He had a reputation as a benevolent employer who provided educational facilities, dining rooms and
in Berlin, where a new manufacturing, research and administrative complex was built from 1898 on a site subsequently named Siemenstadt, between Charlottenburg and Spandau. The works museum, founded in 1922
few years previously. Darby and his partners also developed a water-powered works at Tern (on the site of the present Attingham Park), where they intended to refine pig iron into wrought iron and to roll
mill, in which he had a 20% share, which attracted attention from all over Europe. The Cromford Mill site, which probably began to work in 1774, was powered by the Bonsall Brook, a tributary of the River
Compañía). Around 1854 they began building a new ironworks called Fábrica de El Carmen at Barakaldo, on a site well-placed for exports on the estuary near Bilbao. They installed ovens for direct reduction of iron
which they called Fábrica de El Carmen. It was located at Barakaldo, on the estuary near Bilbao - a site well-placed for exporting products and importing coal. It became the largest industrial plant in the
Industrial settlements associated with him are inscribed in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site. He grew up in Derbyshire in central England, where his family were farmers. He was apprenticed to
One of them, the ‘Catch me who can’ was demonstrated on a circular track in London, not far from the site of the present Euston station. Trevithick’s high-pressure steam engines were built at the foundry
his new Cromford factory at Ratingen, 40 kilometres away from Elberfeld. It used an old water-power site on the river Anger. It was five storeys high and designed on the Arkwright model by Rutger Flügel
Sandfields Pumping Station, Lichfield, which includes an 1872 locally built steam engine, was the earliest site of the SSWC. He sat on many Royal Commissions including projects for the River Thames sewage system
commercial world thought him extravagant, but altho’ he was so, great things are not done by those who sit down and count the cost of every thought and act’.
Seraing in Belgium. His marriage in 1825 gave him capital from his wife’s family. He invested in a site on the new basin on the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal, where he could receive raw materials easily and send
weaving woollen cloth, but in 1835 they established a woollen factory nearby at Schläifmille, on the site of a flour mill powered by the River Alzette. They imported wool through Antwerp and Marseille and
