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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
made steel after 1880, using the Bessemer Converter. Duro died in 1886. In 1900 the factory became a public company, Sociedad Metalúrgica Duro-Felguera SA, and in 1902 it began to be listed on the stock exchange
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
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
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
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
from her home, and she was soon recognised for her ability. She decided against making Henschel a public company so that she could retained control. In 1900 the works celebrated having built 10,000 locomotives
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
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
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
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
