his childhood, Early Days, in 1849, but found it difficult to make a living, and was supported by a public subscription in 1846. He wrote poetry, championed the Lancashire dialect, and in 1849 was said by
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
‘New Unionism’, playing a prominent role in the organisation of unskilled female workers. She sought public office and was top of the poll in elections for the London School Board in 1889, but at that time
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
professional career was cut short by an adulterous affair with a woman of lower social class that became public knowledge, and was particularly damaging to a man who was professedly a devout Evangelical. He spent
company flourished in Stuttgart making high-performance, race-winning cars that could also be driven on public roads. The family`s achievements are commemorated in the Porsche museum at Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen
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.
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
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
Motor Show in 1939, but the intervention of the Second World War meant that it did not appear in public until 1948. In 1955 the Traction Avant was replaced by the celebrated DS with its hydro-pneumatic
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
