j was a Ukrainian banker and industrialist who created companies that developed large-scale coal mines, railways and steelworks in the Donbas basin in the late 19th century, making it one of the most important [...] under-developed Donbas coalfield. In 1879 he founded the Altschewskyj Mining Society, which opened mines for anthracite and became the third largest coal producer in the region. In 1895, he cofounded the [...] steelworks at Sartana near Mariupol. His Southern Mining Society, founded in 1898, took over coal mines at Kryvyi Rih and Kerch. Altschewskyj was an advocate for social causes, education and Ukrainian culture

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

coal-mining community in Yorkshire, the son of a plumber and grandson on both sides of his family, of miners. He was an enthusiastic collector from an early age, and at the age of 16 determined to follow a

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).

architects who designed buildings in the AEG cable-manufacturing and power station complex at 76-78 Wilhelminenstrasse, in Kopenik, Oberschoneweide, and was himself responsible for the nearby factory of the AEG-owned

for better conditions. For a few years she was a leading figure in the ‘New Unionism’, playing a prominent role in the organisation of unskilled female workers. She sought public office and was top of the

systems were made by other companies, such as Henderson of Aberdeen, Scotland. They became common in mines, quarries and construction projects for minerals and waste. Ropeways could span wide distances and

1775, he and Watt created their formal partnership to design and install steam engines, typically at mines and blast furnaces. The parts were made by others under their supervision and they took a royalty

organised the movement of plant and research staff from Peenemunde to the area around the potash mines at Bleicherode in the spring of 1945. He moved with colleagues to Oberammagau in the Bavarian Alps

machinery and watercourses. In 1752, he created an ingenious solution to flooding problems at a coal mine in Lancashire, using a tunnel with an inverted syphon and a waterwheel pump. In 1759, he was appointed

1818, Brunel had patented a tunnelling ‘shield’. This was a reinforced shield of cast iron in which miners would dig forwards in separate compartments. The shield was driven forward by jacks and the tunnel

Russian steam locomotive which was set to work on a railway with cast-iron track that served a copper mine. He received little encouragement from his employers and the locomotive was eventually replaced by

business. When he returned home to Portugalete Chávarri had inherited a share in the family iron mines at Triano. The non-phosphoric iron ores were mainly shipped to Britain for smelting. However, from [...] in returning ships. Chávarri proposed vertically integrating steel production in one company, from mine to steel works to shipping. In 1882, he created a joint-stock company, the Sociedad Anónima de Metalurgia

his father, coal mines, foundries and construction. In 1920, he was ennobled as the Marquis of Triano, taking the name of the Basque village where his ancestors had developed iron-ore mines. The RIALIA museum [...] Vizcaya (known as La Vizcaya) and built a steelmaking operation that integrated every process from mine to shipment. However, he died in 1900, when Victor junior was only twelve. Victor studied engineering

established the pattern under which many iron companies were managed both in Britain and overseas. Mines were leased from landowners, and the coal, iron ore and limestone that they produced went to blast

knighted in 1812. Explosions were a great danger in coal mines. They occurred especially when methane mixed with air was ignited by the candles miners used to light their work. In 1815, the Sunderland Society [...] after a disaster in north-east England killed 92 men. He began experiments in his laboratory to test mine gas. A few months later he presented a paper to the Royal Society and demonstrated a successful lamp [...] His lamp was also a warning device: the flame would change colour if methane was present, or if the mine was short of oxygen it would die down. Others had been experimenting with lamps and some claimed that

becoming a close confidant of the Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck (1815-98). He had interests in coal mines and ironworks in Silesia, in the mining and smelting of zinc at Lipine, and in the Niederrheinhütte

advice from the military engineer Francisco Antonio Elorza. Asturias had a rich coalfield, iron-ore mines at Langreo and Laviana and the newly built Langreo railway (opened in 1853) to the coast at Gijón

the management of the mines. The Eschweiler area became part of France during the Napoleonic Wars in 1794. The family took opportunities under French law to reorganise the mines and join them together [...] buy the share in the mines of her two sisters so that she would have full control. With the area now part of Prussia after the end of the war she successfully won permission to mine new seams. Production [...] Christine Englerth was a businesswoman who developed coal mines in the early nineteenth century in the Rhineland, on the border of Germany and France. She was born at Düsseldorf in 1767. Near the end of