to mechanical engineer and mining. He spent much of the period 1786-94 in England but subsequently returned to Bavaria where in 1796 he became government Director of Mining and Mechanical Engineering.

spent a spell working in Moravia during the Napolonic Wars and on his return to Silesia established mines for zinc ore at Brzozowice and zinc smelters at Nowa Helena and Szarlej, after which, in 1823 he built

is best known through their books, Water Towers (1988), Blast Furnaces (1990), Gasholders (1993), Mine Headstocks (1997), Cooling Towers and Grain Elevators (both 2006).

1747 he worked for the mines administration in Brunswick which managed metalliferous mines in the Harz Mountains. In 1764 he returned to Saxony as General Commission of the Mining Industry, and the following [...] Heynitz was acknowledged in his lifetime as the greatest expert in Germany on mining, metallurgy, salt workings and the mining of coins. He was the uncle of Count Wilhelm Friedrich von Reden (1752-1815) [...] following year he was one of the founders of the Bergakademie (Mining Academy) at Freiberg. In 1776 he made an extensive tour of England, visiting Bristol, Bath, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Chester

was born at Vikmanshyttan in 1718, and studied at the University of Uppsala before working for the Mining Council (the Bergscollegium). In 1749 he embarked on a tour of Europe that was financed by the various [...] Russia, Spain and the 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

tury guidebooks are perhaps the most scholarly of their kind, and include much information about mining and manufacturing in the areas they feature, which can be of great interest to historians of industry

of Norway, which manufactured Lusekofte sweaters and outdoor jackets. Jebsen also had interests in mining, in a glass works in Bergen, and in the development of electric power networks. He was an enterprising

formerly Richard Hartmann) was formed. The company manufactured and turbines, milling equipment, mining machinery and machine tools, as well as spinning machine and locomotives with which he supplied global

conservation of the industrial heritage of North-East England. He was born at Mapplewell, a coal-mining community in Yorkshire, the son of a plumber and grandson on both sides of his family, of miners

‘Experimental Philosophy’ (i.e. physics). Triewald gained experience of coal mining and of the use of steam engines for draining mines while staying near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He returned to Sweden in 1726 and [...] first steam engine at the celebrated iron ore mine at Dannemora. It was unsuccessful, but the engine house still stands and is the focus of visits to the mine and to nearby Österby Bruk. Having returned

possible for him to view Polish television in Oakdale. An account of his life is retained at the Big Pit mining museum.

Alfredo da Silva who ran some 100 companies in diverse sectors: chemicals, textiles, transport, mining, olive oil, mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, tobacco, banking and insurance. Da Silva was born

products included hoists for the docks at Liverpool, underground engines for coal mines, and machinery for lead mines and dressing plants in Co Durham. He invented the hydraulic accumulator in 1850-1. [...] During the Crimean War he became involved with the manufacture of armaments, mines for the Royal Navy, and field guns for the army, and established a munitions plant alongside the hydraulic works at Elswick