Netherlands, as well as from Sweden. He made valuable observations on textiles, mining, railways and river navigations. He was one of many Swedish ironmasters who, through their travels, conveyed new thinking

site, which probably began to work in 1774, was powered by the Bonsall Brook, a tributary of the River Derwent. The mill was extended, and in 1780 Arkwright bought land for another mill complex powered

stimulated his involvement in the project for a new, hydraulically-operated swing bridge over the River Tyne, opened in 1876, replacing the ancient Tyne Bridge that had been an obstacle to shipping. His

1812, as was Reden, in the construction of the 46 km Kłodnica Canal built 1792-1812 from Kózle on River Oder to Gleiwitz, primarily for the conveyance of coal and metallic ores. In 1798 he was appointed [...] smelters at Nowa Helena and Szarlej, after which, in 1823 he built his own ironworks on the Rawa River. He married the daughter of an Italian merchant at Gleiwitz (Gliwice) in 1804 and their children continued

and reached its zenith in the 1920s and 30s. On a further visit to America Bat’a saw Henry Ford’s River Rouge plant in Detroit, from which he gained fresh inspiration. His factories expanded and by 1930

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 Bayer company

1822-24, before settling in Manchester. In 1830 he published his 1:31680 scale Map of the Canals, Rivers, Rail Roads &c in the Midland Counties of England , which he dedicated to Thomas Telford (1757-1834)

Thomas Telford and on the building of Birkenhead, a new town with docks on the opposite side of the River Mersey from Liverpool. Brassey met George Stephenson who was seeking stone for the Sankey Viaduct [...] built 867 km of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, including the tubular bridge over the St Lawrence River at Montreal, and constructed a railway to carry supplies to the allied front line during the Crimean

four great rivers of England, the ‘Grand Cross’. This project was led by landowners and industrialists and financed by shareholders. It included a canal from the Mersey estuary to the river Trent, the [...] waterways that became the arteries of Britain’s industrial regions and linked its principal navigable rivers – the Severn, the Trent, the Mersey and the Thames. Brindley was from a farming family in Derbyshire [...] completed in 1761, which carried coal to Manchester. He designed a stone aqueduct 180-m long over the River Irwell that was a wonder of the age. This success led to other canal schemes. He consulted on projects

at Rotherhithe are now the Brunel Museum. The Thames Tunnel proved the concept of tunnels beneath rivers and led to many other examples. Brunel was knighted by Queen Victoria and in France received the

notable structures was the Royal Albert Bridge by which the Cornwall Railway was carried across the River Tamar west of Plymouth. Brunel demonstrated to the world the potential of large iron steamships. He

Cromford factory at Ratingen, 40 kilometres away from Elberfeld. It used an old water-power site on the river Anger. It was five storeys high and designed on the Arkwright model by Rutger Flügel. It went into

1909, he helped to initiate the project to build t he Guadalmellato reservoir, which fed a tributary river to the Guadalquivir. He also organized exhibitions that promoted the agricultural produce of Andalucía

Vizcaya) and used the capital this raised to build a steelworks on the marshes at Sestao, on the river front between Portugalete and Bilbao. By 1900 Bilbao was the main steelmaking centre in Spain. His

one of Europe’s principal motor car manufacturing centres, and on a 19 ha site at Jarvel, on the River Seine in the 15 th arrondissement, André Citroën built what was to prove the largest factory ever [...] car manufacturing in 1906, and, like many European industrialists, was impressed with Henry Ford’s River Rouge plant in Detroit when he visited the United States in 1919. He applied the principles of mass [...] the founder of the company is commemorated by the Parc André Citroën, opened in 1992, alongside the River Seine on the site of the company’s first large works.

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, wagons

company moved to offices in Ludgate Circus in London. He hired two steamers for an excursion on the River Nile in 1869, and in 1872 personally escorted a small party on a 222-day round-the-world tour, crossing

Crespi d’Adda, established by his father in 1878, were powered by a canal that ran alongside the River Adda. Crespi graduated in law at the University of Pavia in 1889 before embarking on a tour of Europe [...] managers in the 1920s which combined elements both from castles and traditional Alpine chalets. The River Adda is notable for a succession of early hydro-electric plants and in 1909 a hydro-electric plant

the ironworks conducted by Quaker evangelists, descriptions of journeys on passenger boats on the River Severn, comments on food riots in 1756, and several revealing comments on building of new furnaces

parallel business which he called ‘Puma’, with offices and factories on the opposite side of the River Aurach. Long after the two brothers died their two companies were reconciled in 2009 by a charity