under the brand name Globus but soon also began making gun cartridges. Two years later he opened a textile factory at Ružomberok (now in Slovakia). By 1890, the arms industry was the most important branch

in Stockholm and was apprenticed in his uncle’s textile-dyeing workshop at Norrköping. At the age of 18 he began a three-year study tour to see textile industries in Sweden, Germany, Austria and other [...] plant on the Kuusankoski rapids at Kouvola, 130km north-east of Helsinki. In the 20th century the textile factories at Forssa became the largest in Finland under the brand Finlayson. Today Wahren’s spinning

1875 after disagreements with his relations. He had already developed interests in textiles. He purchased the Fritsch textile company, which had six factories and subsequently diversified into mechanical

example of mass production. Brunel 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

further advances, notably rotary motion, which allowed steam power to be applied to rolling mills, textile machinery and a multitude of other purposes. Between 1775 and 1800 the firm installed approximately

men that provided a foundation for her business success. In 1906 she became the mistress of the textile heir Étienne Balsan (1878-1953) whose family made the fabrics that clad most of the French army,

an important centre for the cotton industry and the manufacture of textile machinery. In 1841 he took a job at the Hauboldsche textile machine works and within three years was a manager. In 1844 he took

and bedspreads in silk, cotton and wool. In 1827 he married Regula Abegg, whose father owned a textile bleaching, dyeing and finishing works. With additional investment from his wife’s brother Hans, he

born in Basel when the dye and bleach industries there were evolving rapidly alongside the Swiss textile industries. His father was a cloth merchant. At the age of 19 he took an apprenticeship with a seller

Izrael Poznański was a textile industrialist known as one of the ‘Three Kings’ of Polish cotton alongside his rivals Karl Wilhelm Scheibler and Ludwig Ferdinand Geyer. He was one of the leading figures [...] figures in the rapid growth of Łódź as a great industrial city. Poznański’s family were textile merchants who moved within the Russian Empire to Łódź when he was an infant. At this time Łódź had a small population [...] married Leonia Hertz, the daughter of a wealthy Warsaw merchant. At 19 he took over his family’s textile trading firm and expanded it into manufacturing. He bought up land gradually with long-term plans

early development of the railway locomotive, steam engines, machine tools and equipment for the textile industry. His ‘Salamanca’ of 1812 has been called the first commercially successful locomotive. He [...] its operation. In 1795, Murray and David Wood set up their own engineering works for manufacturing textile equipment and steam engines, with support from Marshall and later an investor called James Fenton

from the school of industrial engineers in the city in 1946 his first job was as an engineer in the textile industry at Tarrasa in Catalunya. He then moved to the Spanish Protecorate in Morocco, where he worked

creation of the entrepreneur Alfredo da Silva who ran some 100 companies in diverse sectors: chemicals, textiles, transport, mining, olive oil, mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, tobacco, banking and insurance

to 100,000 in 1878. It became one of the most important textile manufacturing cities in Europe. Łodz was a traditional area for hand-made textiles. From the 1820s mechanised mills for the woollen and flax [...] Rhineland. His family for several generations were entrepreneurs in the textile industry. He took an apprenticeship in Belgium at a textile factory at Vervier. Then, at the age of 19, he went to work at the [...] Karl (or Karol) Scheibler learned about the mechanised textile industries in several parts of Europe and took his knowledge to Łodz in Poland. The factory he built there in 1855 was one of the biggest

acquired two more textile factories to the north of Porto in 1928, at Ermesinde and Rio Tinto. He developed markets in the Portuguese African colonies of Mozambique and Angola. While textile production was [...] Bonfim district of Porto, Portugal’s second city. He attended technical school and began work in the textile industry in 1894. He rose rapidly and became director of a fabric factory in Bonfim at the age of

Francisca Campeny y Vallvé at Igualada, north-west of Barcelona. The family were established already in textile manufacturing. His father owned a cotton-spinning factory in Barcelona where Josep Antoni went to

production in the nineteenth century. Alkali was used in manufacturing glass, soap, paper, metals, textiles and other products that required acid to be neutralized. Before his process, alkali was produced

the Starnberger See. By 1926 the Maffei Company had built 44 steam ships. Maffei also invested in textile mills in Augsburg, and in the Bayerische Hof hotel built in 1841, and was involved with several banks

Bohemia. Johann travelled around France and Britain observing textile businesses and expanded the factory to weave specialist woollen textiles, including merino and mohair. He separated from his brother [...] Johann Liebieg was a textile industrialist who helped transform the region around the northern Bohemian town of Liberec into one of the major industrial centres of the Austrian Empire. Liebieg was born [...] in 1843 established a worsted spinning mill at Liberec. He continued to expand and diversify his textile production. In 1845, he opened a cotton-spinning factory near Velké Hamry that from 1855 was operated

engineer and industrialist Caspar Honegger was known as the ‘Weaver King’ for his improvements to textile looms, which he manufactured at Rüti in north-west Switzerland under the company name Caspar Honegger [...] workforce to Rüti in 1847. He devised improvements to silk weaving equipment and also built other textile machinery, machine tools, steam engines and turbines. By 1870, he had sold 30,000 ‘Rüti’ looms to [...] housing, schools and churches. Honegger contributing significantly to the mechanization of the Swiss textile industry as well as to the growth of mechanical engineering in the country. Examples of Rüti looms