life in the town of his birth. Karl Flanner was born in Flugfeld, a working class quarter of the industrial city of Wiener Neustadt, the son of a leather worker who was conscripted to work in an ammunition [...] 1946-55 and 1960-71. In 1982 he was one of the founding trustees of the Industrieviertel-Museum (Industrial District Museum) in the city and served as its director. The museum’s displays include one that

In eighteenth-century Portugal, Guilherme (originally William) Stephens developed the glass industry and gained a national monopoly, with his brother João Diogo (originally John James, 1747–1826). Stephens [...] leading centre for glassmaking in Portugal. The mansion Palácio Stephens is a museum of the glass industry.

Johann Heinrich Schüle was a pioneer in the industrial-scale production of printed cotton fabric in eighteenth-century Bavaria. He broke through traditional restrictions at the city of Augsburg to establish [...] building. The emblem from its gates and other material about calico printing are displayed in the industrial museum.

quarries in Northamptonshire to collect fossils revealed by excavations. The Coventry silk weaving industry suffered severely after Richard Cobden’s treaty of 1860 allowed the free import of French ribbons [...] Paris on 8 September 1867, and took the opportunity to travel more extensively, studying the textile industry in St Etienne, Lyons, Geneva, Basle and Rouen. Three years later Thomas Stevens, inventor of Stevengraph

Nikolay Putilov was an important figure in defence, industry and engineering in Imperial Russia during the mid-nineteenth century. As a metallurgist and engineer for the state he developed munitions and [...] facilities and later, as a businessman at St Petersburg, he advanced Russia’s iron, steel and transport industries. Putilov came from a noble family near Novgorod in western Russia. He trained at the Sea Cadet

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 was born [...] at Leeds. Murray patented inventions for spinning wet flax that were a breakthrough for the linen industry. When Marshall installed a Boulton and Watt steam engine at his factory in 1793, Murray was put

Ludwig Ferdinand Geyer. He was one of the leading 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 [...] At this time Łódź had a small population but it was growing as a result of state encouragement of industry. Inward migration created a multicultural society of Poles, Germans, Russians and Polish Jews like

Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking, mining and railways but [...] near Bilbao - a site well-placed for exporting products and importing coal. It became the largest industrial plant in the Biscay region. They installed ovens for direct reduction of iron ore to make malleable

Nicolas Leblanc had a formative influence on the early chemical industry. In 1787 he devised the process for making alkali that dominated production in the nineteenth century. Alkali was used in manufacturing [...] it. Initially, the biproducts were discarded but other uses were found for them as the chemical industries developed. However, the Leblanc process was a cause of severe atmospheric pollution. In the late

the younger brother of John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the most prominent ironmaster of the British Industrial Revolution. Both William and John Wilkinson grew up in Cumbria, where their father was employed [...] received ?8000 in compensation. William Wilkinson never became a commanding figure in the British iron industry, but his role in transmitting new technologies to France was of great importance.

Archibald Hood was one of the mining engineers who transformed the coal industry in Europe in the course of the 19th century. He was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, the son of a colliery overman. His family [...] village of Newtongrange alongside the Lady Victoria pit. Hood was also a prominent figure in the coal industry of South Wales. In 1862 he established the Glamorgan Coal Co, and from 1867 was resident in Cardiff

18th century industrial operations. Jan Verbruggen played an important role in transmitting technology from the state-owned concerns of the ancien regime to the entrepreneurs of the Industrial Revolution

Sir Richard Arkwright transformed the cotton industry throughout Europe. He was born at Preston, and after being apprenticed as a barber, moved to work for a peruke maker at to Bolton-le-Moors, where textile [...] linked Cromford to the inland waterways network, and was well-acquainted with intellectuals of the Industrial Revolution period, including Erasmus Darwin, James Watt and Samuel More. Part of the situation

leading millwright and one of the most prolific British engineers of docks and waterways in the Industrial Revolution. As either designer or consulting engineer he reported on over 200 projects. Rennie [...] Mint and devised machinery for flour mills, textile factories, breweries and other steam-powered industries. In 1810 he built a new factory at Southwark, London, for his mechanical projects. He began supplying

the technological and economic changes in 18th century Britain that have been described as the Industrial Revolution. He was born in Greenock, the son of James Watt (1698-1782), a prosperous merchant and [...] preserved, making the Boulton & Watt Collection in Birmingham one of the most important archives of the Industrial Revolution. Watt retained throughout his life interests in geology, mineralogy and chemistry, and

his generation, remembered for his contributions to electrical power – the basis for the second industrial revolution. Among his multiple discoveries and inventions were the rotating magnetic field, multiphase [...] from 1893 and quickly dominated the new market for flexible and convenient electric motors for industrial use. This began a revolution in mechanical power, in which designs were continuously improved and

civil engineer of railway routes and a mechanical engineer of rails and locomotives during the industrial revolution, he transformed transport. Stephenson was self-taught as an engineer. He was born at [...] builder of the nineteenth century, exporting engines around the world. Railways evolved during the industrial revolution from precursors in the Middle Ages. However, Stephenson’s Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Demidow dynasty of industrialists. From 1820 Yefim was chief mechanical engineer for the various industrial complexes in the area. Mirom, his son, was his apprentice and eventually his successor. In 1810

William Murdoch (or Murdock) was one of the most brilliant and prolific inventors of the British Industrial Revolution. Among his many innovations were improvements to Boulton and Watt steam engines and [...] produce reliable rotative motion from their reciprocating beam engines – a key development of the Industrial Revolution - Murdoch devised the Sun and Planet Gear, patented in Watt’s name. In 1782 he invented

at Tipton, near Birmingham. He may have gained capital from his mother and knowledge of the iron industry from his father’s family. The Horseley company was already about 40 years old and integrated mining [...] made them for both iron and wooden steamships. Manby also turned his attention from around 1819 to industrial opportunities in France. In 1822 he opened an engineering works at Charenton near Paris. By 1825