after being apprenticed as a barber, moved to work for a peruke maker at to Bolton-le-Moors, where textile workers were producing increasing amounts of cotton cloth. Arkwright took a close interest in the [...] bell, had the appearance of a country house. Arkwright built terraced houses to accommodate his textile workers around the few leadminers` cottages that have previously comprised the settlement called

components for textile machines. He went to St Petersburg in 1794, but after the death of Empress Catherine II was imprisoned. After escaping to Sweden, he settled in Verviers as a maker of textile machines [...] with his father and brother in a workshop established in Liege in 1807, where they manufactured textile machines. In 1815-6 he and his brother set up a successful woollen manufacturing business in Berlin

from Russia, Spain and the Netherlands, as well as from Sweden. He made valuable observations on textiles, mining, railways and river navigations. He was one of many Swedish ironmasters who, through their

to a managerial post with the family concern in Manchester, one of many Germans who worked in the textile cities of northern England during the 19th century. Within twenty months he wrote "The Condition

Bamford’s autobiographical writings provide a detailed and moving account of the way of life of domestic textile workers during the Industrial Revolution. Bamford was born in Middleton 8 km north of Manchester [...] he was withdrawn by his father who opposed the teaching of Latin. In early adulthood he worked in textile warehouses, on a farm, and as a seaman on a collier sailing from the Tyne to London, but in his 20s [...] villages around Manchester in that it was a centre of domestic rather than factory production of textiles well into the 19th century. Bamford’s writings convey the rhythms of life of a domestic weaving

Midlands and the North, during which he sketched the locomotive Rocket near Liverpool, explored textile mills in Manchester, and recorded his impression of the ironworks at Coalbrookdale. In 1834 he set [...] set up a machine tool workshop in Manchester on the first floor of a tenemented former textile mill, where the beam of a steam engine that was being machined crashed through the floor into the premises

steam-powered textile mill in Enschede. Soon afterwards, in 1835, he set up Weefgoederfabriek C T Stork, where he produced cloth on three looms. He found that competition in the manufacture of textiles was fierce

Eusebi Guell was a Catalan textile entrepreneur, best known as a patron of the architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) and as the creator of a workers’ colony in the tradition established in Britain by Robert [...] Robert Owen and Sir Titus Salt. In 1890 he re-located his textile factory from Sants in present day Barcelona to his Can Soler de la Torre estate at Santa Coloma de Cervello north of the city, and created

Friedrich Bayer was the son of a silk worker, a member of a family established in the textile industry of Wuppertal, who with others from the same background, established one of the principal international

son of a textile merchant, and gained a gold medal for design at Glasgow High School. By the time he was 21 he was managing a Glasgow textile firm, and soon afterwards set up his own textile business,

d posters from leading artists and attractive but hard-wearing upholstery fabrics from the best textile designers. In 1913-16 Edward Johnson (1872-1944) designed for him the typeface that, in a modified

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,

for a spell at Platt Brothers, Oldham near Manchester, then the world’s largest manufacturer of textile machinery. He then joined his father and was responsible for many of the buildings for which Crespi [...] stations, in electricity distribution companies and in the use of electricity in smelting metals. The textile business at Crespi d’Adda prospered during the First World War when it specialised in the manufacture

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

transport, and established a brand that is still globally recognised. He worked for a time in the textile industry in Hamburg, but in 1843 moved to Bergen in Norway where he set up a company, Arne Fabrikker

workers. He took out patents for machines used in preparing flax and hemp, and continued in the textile trade until 1839. In 1832 he formed a partnership with William Gibson (1783-1857), the son of an [...] Jonsered Manor which is now part of the city’s university, and established Jonsered Fabriker, a textiles and engineering company. Keiller lived there for a time but left in 1839, while the Gibson family

Adolf Guyer-Zeller was the son of Johann Rudolf Guyer (1803-76), one of the leading textile entrepreneurs in the Zürcher Oberland, who established the cotton spinning mill at Neuthal in the municipality [...] er studied in Geneva in 1857-58 and subsequently embarked on a series of tours abroad, studying textile manufacturing in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, England, Quebec, the United States and Cuba between

Friedrich Klett (1778-1847) who had been involved in the toy trade in Nürnberg, before opening a textile factory in the city in 1838. Later, in the same building he established a mechanical engineering

ng the textile industry in Tampere, the principal industrial city in Finland. He was born at Penicuik and was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers). He had some experience of the textile industry [...] Tammerkoski rapids. At first he used the buildings as mechanical engineering workshops, producing textile machines for other companies, but from 1828 the factory was adapted as a cotton mill. He sold it

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