promoted the international diffusion of technology in the iron and steel and mechanical engineering industries, and advocated in Great Britain the high standards of technical education that he observed elsewhere

in The Hague, St Petersburg and Brussels, and was acknowledged by Emile Muller of the Societe Industrielle de Mulhouse to have had a powerful influence on the design of the Cite Ouvriere in that city.

Smidaich was one of the leading entrepreneurs in the Habsburg Empire with interests in several major industries as well as in finance. His father was the geologist Johann Baptist Čžjžek (1806-55), who compiled

the cult of celebrity and powerful brand names are characteristics of some twenty-first century industries. The careers of Adolf Dassler and his brother Rudolf Dassler (1898-1974) exemplify these tendencies

in the Niederrheinhütte (Lower Rhine ironworks) at Duisburg, but also did much to encourage new industries by investing in plants making wood pulp, paper, cellulose and rayon.

course J R Geigy merged with another of the giant Basel chemical firms, Gesellschaft für Chemische Industrie in Basel (or CIBA), and long after the death of J R Geigy Ciba-Geigy made a further merger with

established the Keiller brand of marmalade, but he achieved success in another country and in other industries. At the age of 21 he moved to Göteberg where his family had links with the timber trade, and in

company in 1886 and quickly gained a reputation for innovation in the growing cycle and motor car industries. Pneumatic tyres for bicycles were stuck to wheels with adhesive, which made it difficult to repair

municipal council in 1946-55 and 1960-71. In 1982 he was one of the founding trustees of the Industrieviertel-Museum (Industrial District Museum) in the city and served as its director. The museum’s displays

and Hilla Becher (née Wobeser) transformed the ways in which we all view the monuments of past industries, showing that ruins can have dramatic and aesthetic qualities. Bernd Becher was born in the Siegerland

Comité d’information et de liaison pour l’archéologie, l’étude et la mise en valeur du patrimoine industriel (CILAC) and was the organisation’s vice president from 1978. He was largely responsible for the [...] most important are Industrial Heritage: a new territory (with Grace Dorel-Ferré, 1996) and Luxury Industries in France (1998)

John Haswell was one of several nineteenth-century Scotsmen who established large scale industries in continental Europe. He was born in Glasgow, studied at the university in that city, and subsequently

numerous initiatives recording industrial heritage in Sweden, with ironworks, water power, forest industries, and pulp and paper mills. In 1976 she wrote guides to the ironworks at Engelsberg, which subsequently

of Friedrich Anton von Heynitz (1725-1802), Germany’s principal expert on mining and associated industries. Reden was born in Hamelin in Lower Saxony and in 1768 began an apprenticeship in the metalliferous

mills for the woollen and flax industries were built, notably by Wendisch in 1827 and Gayers in 1835. However, tariffs between Poland and Russia caused the industries to decline. When tariffs were removed [...] Karl (or Karol) Scheibler learned about the mechanised textile industries in several parts of Europe and took his knowledge to Łodz in Poland. The factory he built there in 1855 was one of the biggest

Knoop went to Moscow. He was only 19 years old but he saw opportunities to expand the textile industries in the Russian Empire, bringing his direct knowledge and his connections with English cotton suppliers

became the predominant material used in construction. The invention transformed the iron and steel industries world-wide. Göransson was the first manufacturer to demonstrate the successful application of the

Inspector General of Foreign Manufactures. He liaised with other Englishmen who were developing industries in France. He established new textile workers’ colonies at Sens, south of Paris, and Bourges, in [...] sulphate of various metals. This achievement was critical to the development of French chemical industries. In 1766 Holker and his wife took French citizenship. Despite acquiring little ability to speak

and provided gas lighting for Seville in Spain. He undertook the construction of the Palais de l'industrie for the international exhibition in Paris of 1855, for which he was awarded the legion d’honneur

known for his work with steel, Bessemer was a professional inventor with 129 patents across many industries. He came from a Huguenot family of printers in the south-east of England. His father, Anthony Bessemer