& Liverpool Junction Canal (now called the Shropshire Union) followed a straight course over embankments and through cuttings, in contrast to the contour routes of earlier canals. Telford built several

added forges, 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

to a carriage. His first proper motorcar appeared in 1889. The following year with the support of bankers Daimler established the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG), but there were disagreements with his

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 been demonstrated by Thomas

Samuelson erected two blast furnaces at South Bank, Middlesborough, and subsequently acquired mines that supplied the furnaces with ore and coal. He sold the South Banks work in 1863 and immediately erected a [...] after the death of James Gardner, inventor of the Banbury Turnip Cutter. With the aid of the local banker, Timothy Rhodes Cobb, to whom he referred in 1858 as ‘my oldest friend in Banbury’, he took over

of the separator under license. Laval formed a partnership in 1878 with Oscar Laam, a member of a banking family. The concern was re-structured in 1883 as a limited company, AB Separator, which since 1963

was born at Tholen in the province of Zeeland, and when a young man went to England to work on embankments in the Thames Estuary. He returned in 1626 at the invitation of Charles I to supervised the drainage

steam engine in 1897. D W Stork set up the Association of Dutch Employers in 1898, had interests in banking, and in 1918 was involved in the establishment of the steel-making company, Kon Nederlandse Hoegovens

and made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York in 1845. The company that owned her became bankrupt after she ran ashore in Northern Ireland in 1846. She is now conserved in Bristol. The much larger

synthesising acetylsalicylic acid, which was a modification of a natural substance derived from willow bank, long used in folk medicine, an unstable form of which had been prepared by the Frenchman Charles [...] established by Dr 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

business became aware of the possibilities of electrical technology. In 1881, with the support of bankers, he acquired the rights to manufacture in Germany the products patented in the United States by Thomas

Zollern colliery complexes, and established the Erin mine and the Vulcan ironworks. The company went bankrupt in 1877 but Mulvany was highly regarded by fellow industrialists and by the government mining a

intelligence with a liking for the playboy lifestyle and maintained close contacts with international bankers and leading Italian politicians. He continued the company’s association with the Juventus football

cars were produced on 19 April 1934. The cost of development of the new model drove the company to bankruptcy and it was taken over by the Michelin rubber company before the end of 1934. André Citroën died

sector in 1972 and the company continued as a large-scale travel agency until 2018, when it declared bankruptcy. It gave up publishing the Continental Timetable in 2013, although publication as the European

(Triebwagenzug) to run on a European railway. Čžjžek was involved in banking, having been a founder of the Wiener Bankverein (Vienna union of banks) in 1869. He made a world tour in 1898 to promote the Empire’s

in the derivatives used in the manufacture of plastics and medicines. Geigy was also involved in banking and in politics and was on the boards of several railway companies including that which built the

has been commemorated by a monument set on a rocky hillside near Semmering station, on Austrian banknotes, and by a special issue of postage stamps that marked the 210th anniversary of his birth in 2012

luxury travel by rail. He was born in Liège to a wealthy family who had interests in railways and banking, and links to the Belgian royal house. As a young man he travelled in the United States and was impressed

long-distance railway in Germany. He became engineer to the Surrey Commercial Docks, on the south bank of the River Thames in London, in 1810, and retained the position for the rest of his life. He also