Connected to this, he began a major project for the 30-km Morskoy ship canal to allow large sea-going vessels to enter St Petersburg’s ports. When he died in 1880, before the canal was completed, he was buried

iron paddle-steamer named The Aaron Manby . This was the first iron steamship and the first iron vessel to go to sea. The design was developed by Charles Napier with Manby and his son Charles. It was built

of large iron steamships. He designed the wooden hulled paddle steamer Great Western, a 2300 ton vessel that was intended to ply from Bristol to the United States that made her first voyage in 1838, and

the 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

improve the navigation of the river Rhône with steam engines that towed vessels from fixed points. His company was bankrupted when a vessel hit a bridge at Lyon and sank with the loss of many passengers. In

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 his most profitable enterprises was a

primarily directed. He oversaw profound technological changes during the 1960s, as stainless steel vessels and pipes replaced wooden vats. A new brewery was built in a rural setting at Zoetewoude in 1975

before returning to Berlin to form R Burger AG in 1894, which manufactured thermometers, laboratory vessels and medical equipment. In 1901, in collaboration with Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923), he took [...] of Sir James Dewar (1842-1923). His work on the vacuum flask was originally undertaken to provide vessels that could safely contain liquefied oxygen for the experiments in refrigeration being undertaken