properties were nationalised. He emigrated to the United States, where he turned to the new plastics industries, founding the firm Minigrip to make plastic-bag zips. He died in New York in 1957.

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)

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

went on to design several sawmills and develop machines for the textiles, printing and boot-making industries among others. Nevertheless, he was imprisoned for debts and was released only after political

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.

iron, bar iron and wrought-iron sheets and rails. A town grew up around the works and many other industries were attracted to the area. Duro developed a social protection system for his staff and provided

investors. He was director-general of both. One was Elkem (Det Norske Aktieselskap for Elektrokemisk Industri). The other was Norsk Hydro (originally Norsk hydro-elektrisk Kvælstofaktieselskab). Eyde began

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

Iron foundries and engineering works were essential to equip new industries in the industrial revolution. In Denmark, Søren Frich was an engineer who created an important iron foundry and engineering works

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

isation. Knud became a trader in the textile industry. He went to England to study the textile industries around Manchester and learn about the latest textile machinery. When an English ban on the export

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

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

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

However, when he showed one for automating pattern weaving in 1801 at the Exposition des produits de l'industrie française in Paris he was invited to join the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers . There he improved

weaving cotton. It was used across England by the 1790s and a century later in the vast textile industries of Japan, India and China. In 1747 Kay moved to France to introduce his invention with support

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