first water-powered cotton-spinning factories. Industrial settlements associated with him are inscribed in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site. He grew up in Derbyshire in central England, where his [...] During the British Industrial Revolution Jedediah Strutt was among the fathers of the factory system. After making innovations in knitting stockings he worked with Richard Arkwright to build the first

Chicago for the International Electrical Congress. Meeting Thomas Edison and observing American industrial methods made strong impressions on him. As a result he remained in the United States and for a [...] a leader in typewriters, calculators and computers and is still a global brand. Ivrea is a World Heritage site, where both the Laboratory-Museum and the Olivetti Historical Archive present Olivetti’s story

industrialists, including Richard Arkwright. The Lombe’s silk mill owed its success to John Lombe’s industrial espionage in Italy. He died aged only 29, possibly murdered for stealing trade secrets. The Lombe [...] is a museum on the site of the Lombe brothers’ mill. It is part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site.

appointed to the first professorial chair in industrial heritage research at the University of Uppsala where she established the Nordic/Baltic Industrial Heritage Platform, an international programme for training [...] attending an industrial archaeology conference in Bath, and, as a result of contacts made there, was a delegate in 1973 at the First International Congress on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (FICCIM) [...] Marie Nisser was an art historian who came to be fascinated by the industrial heritage and greatly influenced its development not only in Sweden but across most of Europe. She studied at the University

50 books many of them on topics related to industrial heritage or museums but some on entirely different subjects. Amongst the most influential were Industrial Archaeology: an Introduction (1963), the first [...] Kenneth Hudson was one of the pioneers of the study of industrial heritage, not only in his native England but across most of Europe. He was born in north London and studied English at University College [...] University of Bristol as its resident tutor in Somerset, but moved in 1954 to be talks producer and industrial correspondent with the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) in Bristol. Between 1966 and 1972

Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) at Lyon and Grenoble in 1981 which led to the setting up of a group responsible for establishing a national inventory of industrial heritage at the Ministry [...] Bergeron was a distinguished French scholar who did much to establish the value of the study of industrial heritage with international bodies such as ICOMOS and UNESCO. He was born in Strasbourg and studied [...] interest in Industrial Archaeology developed in the 1970s under the influence of the historian Maurice Daumas (1910-84). He began to advocate in use of field evidence in the study of industrial and economic

inspiring genius, and an influential advocate over many years for the conservation of the industrial heritage of North-East England. He was born at Mapplewell, a coal-mining community in Yorkshire, the [...] to investigate ways of study and preserving artefacts and buildings relating to the social and industrial history of the region. A site became available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson

century. As a museologist Hazelius has had a powerful influence on the presentation of the industrial heritage throughout Europe that extends to the present day. [...] Swedish society before industrialisation, the buildings in Skansen show that the move towards an industrial society was gradual, and that ironmaking, glassmaking and the production of furniture and linen