and capstans in railway depots and lifting bridges. Hydraulic power systems were established as public utilities in such cities as Manchester, Antwerp and Hamburg, and in the 21st century many sophisticated
the extension of the market for luxury goods from limited circles of rich people to a much wider public. She was born in Saumur, the daughter of a washerwoman in a charity hospital and an itinerant street
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
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
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
great Basque steel company Altos Hornos de Vizcaya. Boada brought his expertise to a wide range of public companies in the early 1970s when he was appointed by the government to lead INI (Instituto Nacional
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
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
Prensa Grafica to invest in newspapers and magazines and Calpe to develop book publishing. He became a public figure, working on his newspaper 'El Sol' with the influential writer José Ortega y Gasset. In 1924
partners to take sole ownership of the company. Tennant was the chief promotor of one of the first public railways in Scotland, the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway (opened 1831), which allowed him to cut the
and was later redeveloped with a housing complex, a sports centre for the Barcelona Olympics and a public park named the Parque de la España Industrial.
red dredging and pile-driving and the use of diving bells. Rennie’s projects most visible to the public were his multi-span road bridges, including three over the Thames in central London. Waterloo Bridge
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
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
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
philanthropic industrialists. His primary concept was a city that gave residents gardens, trees and public open space. It was a complete community where people both lived and worked, not a ‘dormitory’ for
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
France for making gas and storing it in portable tanks. They created a company to provide the first public gas lighting in Paris. In 1826 Manby and Wilson took over the historic iron furnaces at Le Creusot
