Charlottenburg and Spandau. The works museum, founded in 1922, moved with the company after the Second World War to Munich, where company archives can be studied at the Werner von Siemens Institute of Siemens

the year in which he displayed at the Great Exhibition in London a flawless 907 steel ingot, and a 2.7 kg cannon. He followed the pattern of earlier generations of English ironmasters by vertically integrating [...] his company, which, with 20,200 employees was claimed to be the largest industrial concern in the world. Krupp gained a reputation as a benign employer. The company`s workers settlements, particularly Altenhof [...] to control the concern in the 20th century. Alfried Krupp (1907-67) was charged but not tried with war crimes for his use of slave labour during the Third Reich, but regained control of the company in 1953

Franco-Prussian War in 1870. He then went to study at the polytechnic in Zurich, and subsequently to the Societe Alsacienne des Constructions Mecaniques at Mulhouse, which after the war was incorporated [...] articulated steam locomotives. After French forces briefly occupied Mulhouse early in the First World War, he organised an ambulance unit in the French army. He was taken prison, but when the German company [...] with two low-pressure cylinders driving the forward axle. His most celebrated locomotives were the 4-4-2s (Atlantics) built for the Chemin de Fer du Nord from 1890, three of which were supplied to the Great

From experience gained in maintaining X-ray apparatus for the combatant armies during the First World War, from 1925 the research staff at Philips, led by Erik de Vries, experimented with television apparatus

only limited tasks in the production of complex ceramic wares. Wedgwood showed imagination and skill in marketing. He arranged displays of his ware in London under the patronage of Queen Charlotte, and exported [...] and in 1771-2 sent a succession of parcels of his products to members of the royal houses of Germany. In the 1770s and 80s he published catalogues in French, Dutch and German. His awareness of the importance [...] manufacturer in Europe. He made many notable contributions to the means of producing high-quality ceramic wares, and, in a broader sense, to the intellectual background to the Industrial Revolution in Britain.

of which was acquired by the National Trust and opened to the public in 1996. During the Second World War he worked chiefly on exhibitions on social and economic themes intended principally for the armed

for her purpose-designed accommodation in Muhlstresse, registered in 1893 as Margarete Steiff Filzwarenfabrik Giengen/Brenz. She published a catalogue in 1892 and by 1894 was fulfilling orders from companies [...] 3000 at Leipzig fair in 1903 and the following year the company was awarded the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition at St Louis, where some 12,000 bears were sold. The logo for which the company is famous

his name. The Bridgewater Foundry continued and became a Royal Ordnance Factory during the Second World War.

Hall (now Ruskin College), Oxford, in 1900. While on military service in India during the First World War he learned Sanskrit. He was employed at the railway works, principally as a hammerman, between 1892

Fokker supplied KLM and other European airlines with the Douglas DC-2 and DC-3 Dakota manufactured under license. After the Second World War the Fokker company was successful with the S-14 military jet trainer [...] in Mecklenburg, where, as Fokker Werke GmbH he had 55 employees. From the outbreak of the First World War the company was taken over by the German government, and produced about 3,000 planes for the country’s [...] His D-VIII, delivered from April 1918, was one of the most effective aircraft to be employed in the war. The destruction of remaining examples was specifically ordered in the Treaty of Versailles. Fokker

Juhlke was one of many millions of East Europeans whose lives were changed utterly by the Second World War. He was born at Tuchola near Bydgoszcz in Poland, the son of a farmer, and expected to train as

Goldberg, until he was forced by the Third Reich government to leave Germany in 1933. After the Second World War the company was split up. Zeiss Ikon resumed production in the Federal Republic at the former Contessa

kingdom of Prussia. When the area became part of Poland under the Treaty of Versaille after the First World War, his family moved to Berlin, where his father, Magnus Freiherr von Braun (1877-1972) held cabinet [...] rocket and jet propulsion research centre at Peenemunde in East Prussia, where he developed the A4/V2 rocket from drawings published by the American, Robert H Goddard (1882-1945). Series production of the [...] work under inhumane working and living conditions, tens of thousands of them met their death. As the war neared its end von Braun came under increasing suspicion from the government, particularly from Heinrich

Braun the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. Marconi served with the Italian forces in the First World War, and subsequently supported the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini. That government’s extravagant

Normandy, and served in the French navy. He was a royalist and, with the onset of the revolutionary wars, emigrated to the United States in 1793, and settled in England in 1799. Between 1805 and 1812 he [...] the board of the company agreed that the line should be built to the broad gauge of 7 ft 0 ? inches (2.14 m). The main line of the Great Western Railway was completed in 1841. It was memorably recorded in [...] Cornwall Railway was carried across the River Tamar west of Plymouth. Brunel demonstrated to the world the potential of large iron steamships. He designed the wooden hulled paddle steamer Great Western

directed the re-building of the railway system after the damage caused to it during the Second World War and in Europe as the inspiration behind the system of fast trains that showed the potential of railways

Gothenburg, and produced 342 6 X 6 cm single lens reflex cameras for the air force before the end of the war. The cameras were modular, robust and versatile in use. His father died in 1942 after which Victor [...] New York in 1948. It became the equipment of choice for professional photographers throughout the world. The company produced a succession of improved versions, and pioneered the development of cameras

company moved in 1897 to the East Hecla Works at Tinsley, and, after expansion during the First World War, employed 13,000 people and had a capital valuation of ?1.9 million by 1918. Hadfield was knighted

the company has continued to innovate in automotive technology in the decades since the Second World War. Bosch was always anxious to spread his company’s operations beyond the frontiers of Germany and

built for the Swedish navy, and recognised their potential for road transport. During the First World War he worked on engines for flying boats and for tanks, and in 1915 established his consultancy Engine [...] the Triumph company, diesel engines for Citroen cars and various aero engines. During the Second World War he worked on the Whittle jet engine. His company still operates from the headquarters he established [...] established at Shoreham and is involved in the development of motor vehicles throughout the world. Sir Harry Ricardo is commemorated by an English Heritage plaque on the house where he was born and grew up in