for many decades. By around 1898 the factorry employed 1,600 people. In 1911, he founded a steel works at Csepel with the name Manfred Weiss, Munitions-, Stahl- und Metallwerke, which not only supplied [...] canned meat and coffee. With the end of the war, the factory contracted from 30,000 to only 400 workers. It was confiscated by the new Soviet Republic and Weiss attempted suicide. However, he returned [...] kitchen and built a hospital, maternity home, sanatorium for tuberculosis patients and nursery for his workers’ children.

standards, with fewer than 50 workers. However, in 1847, Wahren and two partners built a new cotton-spinning factory 10 km away at Forssa with machinery and skilled workers from Britain. Within a few years

Rahr, who traded between England and Scandinavia. The opportunity to see a great industrial city at work gave him a deep appreciation of the potential for commercial and industrial enterprises funded by

partnership with his cousin Georg Haas von Hasenfels (1861-1914) took over the Paulus-Porzellan porcelian works, established in Slavkov in 1793 by Johann Georg Paulus which prospered under the management of Johann [...] included the Emperor, the Pope and many aristocrats. In 1872 Hass and Čžjžek purchased the porcelain works of Portheim und Sohne at Chadau (now Chodov, in the Czech Republic), and the two factories between

came to Britain in 1799 with the aim of securing a contract to design the Royal Navy block-making works in the dockyard at Portsmouth, which was needed to manufacture the wooden pulley blocks required by

and systematic production. In the 1770s, he introduced a pioneering health insurance scheme for workers, funded by compulsory contributions from wages. In the 1780s, he joined the campaign to abolish the

mie he returned to set up business as an importer of sheet steel and set up Romania’s first wire works. In the 1920s he took over the management of the company Uzinele de Fier și Domeniile Reșița (the [...] the 1920s it employed 17,000 people and had blast furnaces, a steelworks, foundries and engineering works that manufactured steel structures, armaments, electric machinery and locomotives among other products

nationalism. His assets and companies were seized by the Russian authorities. At the request of his workers, the industrial city of Alchevsk was named in his honour.

Europe. He was born and died in London but spent the middle years of his life in Hamburg, where his work transformed the city through projects for water supply, sewerage and transport. He undertook projects [...] Central to the new plans for Hamburg was the construction of sewers. Lindley was influenced by the work of the English social reformer Henry Chadwick who had studied the transmission of diseases in London

year. He formed a partnership, W G Armstrong & Co, which began production of hydraulic machines in a works at Elswick on the western side of Newcastle in 1847.Early products included hoists for the docks at [...] Royal Navy, and field guns for the army, and established a munitions plant alongside the hydraulic works at Elswick. In 1868 he began co-operation with a shipbuilder, Charles Mitchell of Walker-on-Tyne, [...] 1882 and established a warship construction yard at Elswick. He took a combative attitude when his workers went on strike in 1871, and subsequently relinquished most of the day-to-day administration of the

process at the London international exhibition and founded a new steelworks at Sandviken. The new works was in an uninhabited area close to supplies of iron ore. He built a village with good living conditions

Riviera where she built her villa La Pausa . In the late 1930s she went to Hollywood to do film design work for Samuel Goldwyn (1879-1974), and, in France, designed the costumes in 1939 for Jean Renoir’s (

subsequently at the Nine Mile Point and Oakdale pits, until 1969 when, after a hernia injury, he left to work for a company making brake linings for motor vehicles. He returned many times to Poland, but had made

and the manufacture of textile machinery. In 1841 he took a job at the Hauboldsche textile machine works and within three years was a manager. In 1844 he took a new role at the Tauscher and Company cylinder [...] owner. At this time, local engineering companies imported the machine tools they needed for their work at great expense from Britain. Zimmerman decided, at the age of 28, to enter this field himself. He [...] modern principles with a long workshop hall served by a travelling crane. He continued to expand the works with a foundry and a shop for making woodworking machinery. Zimmerman built himself a remarkable Gothic

first railway locomotive, Blücher , in 1814 for Killingworth colliery. This improved on the earlier work of Richard Trevithick and John Blenkinsop to make a more reliable locomotive. In 1815, he invented [...] With his great wealth Stephenson bought land in the English midlands and owned collieries and lime works. He supported mechanics institutes to train young people and in 1847, the year before his death, he

University. When he returned to Newcastle, his father made him managing partner of a new engineering works, titled Robert Stephenson & Company. The firm completed its first locomotive, ‘Locomotion’, for the [...] innovations at Robert Stephenson & Company, which was recognised as the world’s first locomotive works and grew to employ 1,500 people. After helping his father with the civil engineering of the Liverpool

wool. In 1827 he married Regula Abegg, whose father owned a textile bleaching, dyeing and finishing works. With additional investment from his wife’s brother Hans, he set up a factory of 28 looms across the

he took an apprenticeship with a seller of raw silk in Basel. After six years he went to Paris to work at an aniline dye factory, learning about the new chemical alternatives to natural pigments. Returning

industrial enterprises, including an ironworks at Sobotín and mines in Istria, Dalmatia and Bohemia. His work enabled the exploitation of mineral wealth and the industrial development of vast territories across

business further. He expanded it by stages, adding a dye works, a finishing plant, a spinning mill and more weaving shops, and nearby a starch works, a foundry and mechanical workshops. He bought a large [...] employer who insisted on long working days of up to 16 hours, gave little thought to the safety of his workers and dealt harshly with strikes. However, late in life he turned his attention to charitable projects