North-Rhine Westphalia in 1783-4 he gave it the name Cromford. The building is now an industrial museum. Brügelmann grew up in a family of merchants at Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. Elberfeld [...] baroque mansion for his family in 1787-90 next to the factory, which can also be visited as part of the museum. The community of workers’ dwellings that he built also survives. In 1789, he expanded with a works
pumping engine of 1813 for the mine at Eisleben operated until 1885 and is preserved in the Deutsches Museum at Munich – it is the oldest surviving steam engine in Germany.
means of philanthropy. Krupp`s own mansion, the Villa Hugel in Essen-Bredeney, is conserved as a museum. Krupp's family continued to control the concern in the 20th century. Alfried Krupp (1907-67) was
their shares to the American company John Deere. The Lanz name was used until 1967. The Lanz-Leo’s Museum in Rimbach, Bavaria, preserves a collection of the company’s engines and machines.
inscribed ‘Wilkinson’ were depicted in a contemporary engraving, and one such cylinder remains in the museum at the latter. William Wilkinson met his brother at Namur in 1782. John Wilkinson had many links
Lothian Coal Co, which in the same year began to sink the Lady Victoria pit, now the Scottish Mining Museum. The colliery came to employ 1200 men and had a 91 year working life. The company controlled 5700
Midlands through his Baptist faith. There is a working replica of the engine in the nearby Black Country Museum. The engine’s piston propelled a balanced beam, to which the pump was attached, by admitting steam [...] nineteenth century engine is preserved in situ at Elsecar near Sheffield. Several more are held in museums, and the engine house that accommodated a Newcomen engine built by Martin Triewald in 1727 is preserved
from an exhibition of traditional handicrafts organised by the Federation at the Victoria & Albert Museum. From 1953 she began to print her own silk screen designs on to scarves, napkins and tea towels which
ultramarine led to 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
made Marquis of Chávarri in 1914. A monument to him was put up in Portugalete in 1903 and the RIALIA museum shows material connected with his enterprises and those of his son, also called Victor Chávarri
work for the Society, the block of apartments completed in 1850 in Streatham Street near the British Museum, still stands. He built several other multi-storey blocks of apartments in central London, amongst
hotels he was effectively bankrupt. Westinghouse helped to support him for the rest of his life. Museums in Serbia and Croatia celebrate Tesla’s legacy and there are monuments to him in many countries.
taking the name of the Basque village where his ancestors had developed iron-ore mines. The RIALIA museum at Portugalete shows material related to Altos Hornos de Vizcaya and Babcock & Wilcox.
as synthetic fibres and dyestuffs. Seven buildings of Nobel’s factory of 1875 are preserved as a museum at Hurum in Norway, his laboratory and mansion, used in his last years, are preserved at Karlskroga
including Solutions Sociales (1871) and Mutualite Sociale (1880). He is commemorated in a small museum at Guise and by a statue that stands outside the familistere.
