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
capitalists who were investing in collieries, notably the Hibernia mine in Gelsenkirchen and the Shamrock mine at Herne. Mulvany brought skilled miners from Britain into his collieries, and was particularly successful [...] Ruhrgebiet, in part by securing the improvement of transport facilities. At Gelsenkirchen he built some miners` housing with the curving roofs topped with tarred calico that were characteristic of the cotton-spinning [...] original company although he later returned as chairman of the board of directors of the Shamrock mine. In 1866 he founded Preussische Bergswerkes- und Hutten-Aktiengesellschaft (the Prussian Mining and
Upper Silesia and Godulla’s mines and smelters dominated world production. He was known as the ‘king of zinc’. When he died Godulla owned numerous zinc mines, coal mines and zinc smelters as well as very [...] with the landowner there to establish the Mariengrube mine and divide profits equally. In the following years, he invested his earnings in other mines, steelworks and transport facilities. He lent money [...] representative of the von Ballestrem companies. When other landowners prevented the estate from buying mines for calamine (zinc carbonate) to supply its smelting works, Godulla began prospecting in a new area
as a coal miner and worked for three years at the Concordia Mine, Oberhausen. Three years later he joined a German company, Schachtbau Thyssen, that specialised in sinking shafts for coal mines, and which [...] provided in Nissen Huts, in whichfour men shared each room. The company gradually recruited more Welsh miners, and the Germans began to integrate with local communities. In 1956 he began to work on a contract [...] contract at Brynlliw Colliery at Grovesend near Gorseinon. He lodged with an elderly widow of a miner who filled a tin bath with water prior to his return from his first day’s work, and was surprised to learn
institute for mine exploration at Glogovica. In 1903 he became the owner of mining rights at Bor in the east of the country. After spending so much on exploration he could develop the mine only by creating [...] one fifth of the shares himself. The mine at Bor became the largest copper producer in Europe and continues to operate today. Weifert went on to explore gold mines successfully and operate a porcelain [...] began to be interested in mining, at first because he wanted coal for his breweries. He opened a coal mine at Kostolac, about 50 km east along the Danube. This attracted him to other mining opportunities and
controlled 5700 ha of mine workings and accommodated its miners in 700 cottages, many of which were in the village of Newtongrange alongside the Lady Victoria pit. Hood was also a prominent figure in the coal [...] libraries and other community facilities. He enjoyed the sport of bowls, and laid out greens on which his miners could play in their leisure hours. In 1890 he amalgamated his company with the mining interests of [...] the Rhondda Valley, and he did much to expand mining in the upper parts of the Rhondda. One of his mines at Gilfach Coch was known as the Scotch Colliery. He did much to expand markets for Welsh steam coal
the École des mines. He then took seven months to travel around northern France, Belgium and the German states examining mines and ironworks. He published his findings in the Annales de mines . He entered [...] entered the government service as a supervisor of mines and quarries across France in 1841. In 1843 he began to work on the question of French railways, examining how a national network should develop and studying
in that state at Dresden and Freiberg. From 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 [...] part of Prussia. He was responsible for installing a Watt steam engine to pump water from the silver mines at Tarnoskie Gory. From 1786 he was Curator of the Berlin Academy of Arts, provided it with a new
engines for draining mines while staying near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He returned to Sweden in 1726 and the following year erected the country’s first steam engine at the celebrated iron ore mine at Dannemora. It [...] 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 to Sweden Triewald gave public lectures modelled on those of D
built in 1712 by the English ironmonger Thomas Newcomen. The value of engines in pumping water out of mines was immediately recognised and after 20 years about 100 were in use. Many inventors developed the [...] in Saxony. Continuing to work with Bückling, he built many beam engines to pump water from copper mines in the Mansfeld area and to power the salt works at Kötzschau, Schönebeck and Teuditz. Beyond Saxony [...] in North-Rhine Westphalia for the salt works at Unna near Dortmund in 1799, and the Bölhorst coal mine near Minden in 1803. In Brandenburg they worked with the Lauchhammer foundry. At Kołobrzeg (then in
appointed Director of Mining Engineering in Sweden, with particular responsibility for the Falun mine, and visited mines in the Harz region in 1707. From 1700 he established a water-powered factory for the automated [...] as a mining engineer, by designing a water-powered hoist for raising barrels of ore from the copper mine at Falun in 1693 that attracted the attention of mining engineers from all over Europe. In the mid-1690s
coal mine and shipping business established by his grandfather on the rivers Ruhr and Rhine. After secondary school, Stinnes received business training in an office in Koblenz and worked as a miner at the [...] created a vast conglomerate. He was considered Germany’s ‘business Kaiser’, with control of coal mines, steelworks, shipping, power stations, hotels, newspapers and banks. It is believed at the time of [...] began studies at the technical university of Charlottenberg but for a management role in the family mines in 1890 following his father’s death. In 1892, Stinnes founded Hugo Stinnes GmbH, which became the
of high-pressure steam, and was responsible for some of the first steam locomotives. The son of a mine manager in Cornwall, he was developing a high-pressure steam engine by 1796, which drove a road vehicle [...] the condensing single-cylinder beam engine, the first of which was installed at the Wheal Prosper mine in Cornwall in 1811-12. High-pressure steam from a cylindrical boiler, with an innovatory internal [...] The efficiency of the engine justified its high initial cost, and it was widely used for draining mines and for pumping drinking water and sewage. Trevithick left England for Peru in 1816, hoping to build
employed 5,000 workers. She owned numerous coal mines that generated huge profits and in 1895 she bought more. At the same time she sold the zinc mines and smelters that Godulla had developed, as the zinc [...] and became one of the wealthiest women in Europe. Born Johanna Gryzik, she was the daughter of a miner who died when she was only three. When her mother remarried, her new husband would not adopt her as [...] churches and hospitals and built an orphanage. A relief fund was set up to support employees of the mines and steelworks, and a boarding school for the workers’ children was established in Bytom.
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
draining tin and copper mines in the West of England, and devised an effective automatic steam engine, the first example of which appears to have been set to drain a coal mines at Coneygre, Dudley, in [...] to thirty without such assistance’, and by a Cornish miner who commented: ‘Mr Newcomen’s invention of the fire engine enabled us to sink our mines to twice the depth we could formerly do by any other
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
bankruptcy in 1849. (The cobalt works and mines operated until 1893 and became a museum in 1971.) In 1835 Benecke and Wegner had purchased the Hassel iron ore mine and blast furnace in southern Norway, which [...] 1776, this was among the world’s largest producers of cobalt blue pigment. It consisted of cobalt mines, calcining kilns, a works to process the dyestuffs and a glassworks. Cobalt blue was exported widely
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
different sectors and locations – a steelworks and coal mines near Katowice, a department store, a salt-importing business and a mill in Warsaw, lead mines at Olkusz, an agricultural machinery works and foundry [...] to manage the family business. He sought new industrial opportunities and in 1823 he opened a coal mine and a factory for smelting zinc ore at Jaworzno, between Kraków and Katowice. In 1825 he sold some
