River Adda. Crespi graduated in law at the University of Pavia in 1889 before embarking on a tour of Europe during which he studied cotton manufacturing in France, Germany and England. While in England he

subsidiary. Baekeland was an enthusiastic advocate of the motorcar and made a pioneering motoring tour of Europe in 1906. Bakelite is commemorated in a museum in Somerset, England.

Göran Fredrik Göransson was one of Europe’s first industrialists who had a truly international perspective on industry, technology and business. Born at Gävle in Sweden, as a young man he spent 18 months

capital, keeping one fifth of the shares himself. The mine at Bor became the largest copper producer in Europe and continues to operate today. Weifert went on to explore gold mines successfully and operate a

1,000 and employed several dagreement with Trenton Ironworks in the USA and sales offices across Europe. When Bleichert died of tuberculosis at the age of 56 the company installations.

frontier and Basel. The 4-6-2 (2.3.1 in continental notation) locomotive was one of the first in Europe to have American style bar frames. It was placed with much ceremony in the Deutsches Museum in 1958

employer in the city of Kassel, with over 2,000 staff, and the most productive locomotive factory in Europe, exporting across the world. She was born Caroline Elisabeth Francisca Sophie Caesar, the daughter

only 2,400 power looms in Britain’s cotton mills. However, by 1820 the technology was established in Europe and America. By 1850 there were almost a quarter of a million machines in use in British cotton mills

projects. He created the engineering firm Batignolles which built railways and bridges in many parts of Europe and Africa. He was born at Tours in central France to a prosperous commercial family. He studied

of the road over the Cortina d’Ampezzo to Trevisco (Toblach). Like almost every civil engineer in Europe in the 1830s, he was attracted to railway building, and served as a resident engineer on one of the

over in 1910. Armand Peugeot retired in 1913 by which time Peugeot, making 10,000 cars a year, was Europe’s largest motor car manufacturer. The company continued to grow in the inter-war period introducing

weaving mill on the outskirts of the city. In 1844 he left Norway to gain experience of industry across Europe, spent six months working in a cotton mill in Manchester, and did not return to Bergen until 1844

nineteenth century. By the 1860s, the southern part of Luxembourg was one of the main sources of iron in Europe. They were the youngest of the nine children of Jean Metz and Anne-Marie-Justine Gérard. Their older [...] nineteenth century. By the 1860s, the southern part of Luxembourg was one of the main sources of iron in Europe. They were the youngest of the nine children of Jean Metz and Anne-Marie-Justine Gérard. Their older

Limas União Tomé Fèteira (Tomé Fèteira united file company). This broke into foreign markets across Europe and South America. It is said that the company at its greatest size employed 1,200 workers. Several

Rhine-Westphalia. His dam on the River Urft, completed in 1905, was at the time among the largest in Europe. By around 1910 several hundred Intze water towers had been built in Germany and elsewhere to supply

of the British electrical industry, Thomas Parker was described by Lord Kelvin as the "Edison of Europe". He was ahead of his time — a great inventor and entrepreneur. He worked on the development of public

drew attention to the educational and social ideals that he was applying. Visitors from all over Europe flocked to see the community at New Lanark. Owen proposals for ‘villages of unity and co-operation’

Lindley was an engineer and urban planner who spread main sewer design on modern principles across Europe. He was born and died in London but spent the middle years of his life in Hamburg, where his work

depict with startling clarity the inhuman and oppressive aspects of working class life in industrial Europe in the nineteenth century. Zola was born in Paris, the son of a naturalized Italian engineer, but

publishing industry in Leipzig. Perhaps no company did more to encourage the habit of travelling across Europe and gaining understanding of the lives of those who lived in other countries.