inventor and entrepreneur. He worked on the development of public and private electric lighting systems, and he gave us electrically-powered public transport, cheap matches (by revolutionising the production [...] factory in Commercial Road, Wolverhampton. The company's greatest success with this technology was in public transport. By 1890, Parker's battery-powered trams were running in Birmingham, and his electric trams [...] technologies further. Improvements to the dynamo he designed enabled the development of large-scale public lighting schemes. He also suggested improvements for the manufacture of aluminium bronze and the
hydroelectric power in Spain and contributed to the development of other public utilities, including electricity distribution, gas and public transport. Urrutia came from the small town of Amurrio, south of Bilbao
practice in the design of public transport facilities in Dusseldorf and Amsterdam. He advised authorities in several European cities, including Moscow, on the development of their public transport. His most [...] England, and, indeed, the ideal patron of our age`. Pick was one of the ablest and most enlightened public sector managers that Europe has known.
century onwards. John Logie Baird, in the 1920s, was the first to produce a practical product for public use. Baird grew up at Helensburgh in Scotland and studied at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical [...] the German post office and Télévision-Baird-Natan. As a result, his system was used for the first public television broadcasts. In the early 1930s, Baird worked on an electronic scanning system for television
were employed, producing a bewildering variety of designs. Port Sunlight also includes a church, a public house, many meeting halls and the magnificent Lady Lever Art Gallery. Lever was one of the first [...] scouring powder, Lux soap flakes and Lifebuoy carbolic soap as powerful brands Lever Brothers became a public company in 1894 and exercised a powerful influence in the soap industry throughout Europe, with factories
company, the ‘Compagnie des eaux de Paris’, which won the right to supply water to private homes, public fountains and fire hydrants in the French capital. James Watt designed engines for them, Boulton [...] Arts and Trades in Paris. By 1786, the company supplied 20,000 private houses as well as numerous public fountains. However, it suffered from rising costs and falling share prices and the city of Paris
Company for Public Enterprises and Construction). This company was responsible for new water supply systems for Venice and Naples, further railway and tramway projects and important public buildings, including
specialised track and locomotives, it had a level route, it was subject to public control, it connected urban centres and it carried public traffic and passengers. The gauge Stephenson chose for his railways
the focus of visits to the mine and to nearby Österby Bruk. Having returned to Sweden Triewald gave public lectures modelled on those of Desaguliers. He was elected in 1729 to the Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeen
alist by religion, and constructed a fine chapel for that denomination at Saltaire. He held many public offices in Yorkshire, but made little impact when he served as a Member of Parliament for two years
magazines for customers, ran numerous television advertisements, announced the company’s products to the public on enormous posters. His was one of the first companies to make extensive use of the Internet. He [...] magazines for customers, ran numerous television advertisements, announced the company’s products to the public on enormous posters. His was one of the first companies to make extensive use of the Internet. He
horse-operated railway from Linz to Budweis (now České Budějovice in Czechia). This was among the first public railways in Europe. In 1829, at the age of 21, Schönerer was appointed to manage construction following
across the border of the German Empire at Grenzach, now in Baden-Württemburg. In 1901 it became a public company which from 1914 was called J R Geigy AG. In due course J R Geigy merged with another of the
sewage system, the Thames Embankment and the Suez Canal. He was called in to advise Napoleon lll on public baths and wash houses in Paris and was Consulting Engineer for the system of railways in Galicia
houses at Willow Road, Hampstead, one of which was acquired by the National Trust and opened to the public in 1996. During the Second World War he worked chiefly on exhibitions on social and economic themes
Busiasch with 100 hectares of forest in Romania. He developed a resort with a spa, hotel, villas, public gardens and a branch railway and he began exporting bottled mineral water under the names Phönix
a strategic steam-powered railway network to serve the Russian Empire. He designed Russia’s first public railway line, which opened in 1837 for 27 km from St Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo. This line was
coal-gasworks to provide bottled gas. Shortly afterwards he won the contract for the city of Mannheim’s public gas provision and began a programme of street lighting. The by-products of coal-gas were being explored
