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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
