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)

Thomas Telford and on the building of Birkenhead, a new town with docks on the opposite side of the River Mersey from Liverpool. Brassey met George Stephenson who was seeking stone for the Sankey Viaduct [...] built 867 km of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, including the tubular bridge over the St Lawrence River at Montreal, and constructed a railway to carry supplies to the allied front line during the Crimean

site, which probably began to work in 1774, was powered by the Bonsall Brook, a tributary of the River Derwent. The mill was extended, and in 1780 Arkwright bought land for another mill complex powered

foundries and engineering shops forming an integrated complex extending 5 km along the banks of the River Meuse. The works specialised initially in supplying railway companies with rails, locomotives, wagons

navigable levels through underground coal workings, to Castlefields in Manchester. It was extended to the River Mersey at Runcorn in 1772, and the duke was heavily involved in the promotion of many other canals [...] turned civil engineer, who was to be responsible for the routes of many more canals. It crossed the river at Barton on a masonry aqueduct that was replaced with a swinging aqueduct when the Manchester Ship [...] could be built across the grain of the country, and could be more than navigable channels alongside rivers. In a broader international context Bridgewater showed the potential for artificial waterways to

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 travels, conveyed new thinking

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

long Mia Pia Bridge over the River Douro in Oporto in 1877, in collaboration with the Belgian Company, Theophile Sevrig. He built a pedestrian truss bridge over the Onyard river at Giron in Catalonia in 1876-7

the ironworks conducted by Quaker evangelists, descriptions of journeys on passenger boats on the River Severn, comments on food riots in 1756, and several revealing comments on building of new furnaces

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

notable structures was the Royal Albert Bridge by which the Cornwall Railway was carried across the River Tamar west of Plymouth. Brunel demonstrated to the world the potential of large iron steamships. He

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

Karl Leverkus (1804-89) north of Cologne, and large tracts of adjacent land along the banks of the River Rhine. The factory was greatly expanded from 1895, and in 1912 the headquarters of the Bayer company

and reached its zenith in the 1920s and 30s. On a further visit to America Bat’a saw Henry Ford’s River Rouge plant in Detroit, from which he gained fresh inspiration. His factories expanded and by 1930

1822-24, before settling in Manchester. In 1830 he published his 1:31680 scale Map of the Canals, Rivers, Rail Roads &c in the Midland Counties of England , which he dedicated to Thomas Telford (1757-1834)

one of Europe’s principal motor car manufacturing centres, and on a 19 ha site at Jarvel, on the River Seine in the 15 th arrondissement, André Citroën built what was to prove the largest factory ever [...] car manufacturing in 1906, and, like many European industrialists, was impressed with Henry Ford’s River Rouge plant in Detroit when he visited the United States in 1919. He applied the principles of mass [...] the founder of the company is commemorated by the Parc André Citroën, opened in 1992, alongside the River Seine on the site of the company’s first large works.

company moved to offices in Ludgate Circus in London. He hired two steamers for an excursion on the River Nile in 1869, and in 1872 personally escorted a small party on a 222-day round-the-world tour, crossing

Crespi d’Adda, established by his father in 1878, were powered by a canal that ran alongside the River Adda. Crespi graduated in law at the University of Pavia in 1889 before embarking on a tour of Europe [...] managers in the 1920s which combined elements both from castles and traditional Alpine chalets. The River Adda is notable for a succession of early hydro-electric plants and in 1909 a hydro-electric plant

parallel business which he called ‘Puma’, with offices and factories on the opposite side of the River Aurach. Long after the two brothers died their two companies were reconciled in 2009 by a charity

Émil Zola (1840-1902): ‘The day will come when electricity will be for everyone, as the water of the rivers and the wind in the heavens. It should not be merely supplied but lavished, that men may use it at