Robert Owen was one of the most influential figures of the Industrial Revolution, a successful and philanthropic factory owner, a pioneer of co-operation and a thinker who inspired socialist movements [...] followers met in numerous Owenite halls in the 1830s and 40s. The subsequent co-operative movement in England and in other European countries acknowledged him as a source of inspiration.
18th century industrial operations. Jan Verbruggen played an important role in transmitting technology from the state-owned concerns of the ancien regime to the entrepreneurs of the Industrial Revolution [...] foundryman through whom important machine tool techniques were transmitted from continental Europe to England where they profoundly influenced the development of the steam engine. Verbruggen was born in Enkhuizen [...] the foundry which led to a decade of controversy that concluded when, with his son, he migrated to England to work at the Woolwich arsenal in 1770. He completely reorganised the cannon foundry in the next
that was inherited by Friedrich Krupp (1787-1826). In 1811, when supplies of crucible steel from England were interrupted by Napoleon`s continental system, he established a steel foundry in Essen, although [...] almost ceased by the time of his death. The development of this small concern into the largest industrial company in Europe was due largely to his son, Alfred Krupp. When the building of main line railways [...] comprised 50% of the output of his company, which, with 20,200 employees was claimed to be the largest industrial concern in the world. Krupp gained a reputation as a benign employer. The company`s workers settlements
summarised in 1805 by Thomas Telford who called him "the model and root of the canal navigation of England … by his exertions and example (he) turned a great portion of British talent and capital into a direction [...] goods, of agricultural produce, and for other purposes, the prime purpose of the canals of the Industrial Revolution period throughout Europe was to carry coal.
German universities, before visiting England in 1843 to seek markets for an electro-plating process, already patented by his brother in Prussia. In his early years in England he made experiments with superheated [...] Carl Wilhelm Siemens invented many industrial processes and held some 113 patents. He was also a successful entrepreneur who spent most of his active life in his adopted country. He was born in Hanover
Friedrich Engels wrote one of the classic critiques of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution in England, devoted much of his life to supporting and publicising the writings of Karl Marx, and was [...] who worked in the textile cities of northern England during the 19th century. Within twenty months he wrote "The Condition of the Working Classes in England", which was published in 1845. It reflects the [...] house of 1775, is preserved as part of the city`s history centre, which also includes a museum of industrial archaeology. He was the son of a cotton manufacturer, and spent three years in the employment of
Margarete Steiff is an heroic story of triumph over handicaps. It is also a significant part of the industrial history of Europe, of the growing tendency in the closing years of the 19th century to manufacture [...] her nephew, one of five of the sons of Fritz Steiff who entered her business. He had studied in England, and attended art school in Stuttgart where he had particularly enjoyed sketching animals in the
Germany and Ireland. It was demonstrated at the 1879 meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, which conferred on Laval its silver medal. Several companies, including Bergdorfer Eisenwerk of [...] 1894, and completing a vacuum milking machine in 1913. The separator was used for various other industrial purposes beginning in 1882 with its application for processing fish oil in Norway in 1882. In 1882
existing society is the history of class struggles’ have shaped the vocabulary of many accounts of industrial development, even those written by writers with philosophies directly opposed to Marxism. Karl [...] particularly through the First International, formed in 1864. His analysis of economic history, that industrial capitalism had created a proletariat, whose members could only live by selling their labour, has [...] Marx’s grave in Highgate Cemetery, London, for many years the object of pilgrimage by visitors to England from communist countries, dates from 1954 when it was erected by the Communist Party of Great Britain
with the onset of the revolutionary wars, emigrated to the United States in 1793, and settled in England in 1799. Between 1805 and 1812 he built the block-making works in the dockyard at Portsmouth, where [...] France from 1822, where he acquired a taste for the Egyptian style in architecture. On returning to England he worked for his father on the construction of the Thames Tunnel in east London, where he was seriously [...] and a full member in 1837. In the early 1830s he sought work on several projects in north-east England but worked principally on the improvement of the docks in Bristol. In 1833 he became involved in
century. As a museologist Hazelius has had a powerful influence on the presentation of the industrialheritage throughout Europe that extends to the present day. [...] Swedish society before industrialisation, the buildings in Skansen show that the move towards an industrial society was gradual, and that ironmaking, glassmaking and the production of furniture and linen
genius, and an influential advocate over many years for the conservation of the industrialheritage of North-East England. He was born at Mapplewell, a coal-mining community in Yorkshire, the son of a plumber [...] to investigate ways of study and preserving artefacts and buildings relating to the social and industrial history of the region. A site became available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson
on a tour of Europe during which he studied cotton manufacturing in France, Germany and England. While in England he worked for a spell at Platt Brothers, Oldham near Manchester, then the world’s largest [...] Benigno Crespi was principally responsible for the building of Crespi d’Adda the most spectacular industrial community in Italy. The cotton mills at Crespi d’Adda, established by his father in 1878, were
main line railway to pass through a region of high mountains, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998. He was born in Venice, then part of the Habsburg Empire, the son of Anton Ghega, an [...] Emperor Ferdinand Nordbahn between Brno and Břechla (Lundenburg). In 1836-37 he studied railways in England and other countries, and in 1842, having been given responsibility for the strategic planning of [...] between 1848 and 1854 and is notable for the elegance of its 16 major viaducts. The UNESCO World Heritage Site covers a 41km section from Gloggnitz, 436m above sea level, to the summit at 895m and on to
present-day Denmark, but after gaining experience in several countries became one of Norway’s leading industrial entrepreneurs of the nineteenth century. He was involved with many aspects of manufacturing and [...] and China. In 1872 the Norske Lloyd line’s steamship Peter Jebsen was launched at Middlesbrough in England. Jebson was also a promoter of railways, particularly of the route from Bergen to Voss, opened as
Demidow dynasty of industrialists. From 1820 Yefim was chief mechanical engineer for the various industrial complexes in the area. Mirom, his son, was his apprentice and eventually his successor. In 1810 [...] Tagil region. From 1820 he built about 20 steam engines of various kinds. He spent some time in England in the 1820s, and on his return, in 1833-34, he and his son built the first Russian steam locomotive
in Germany, particularly in the Siegerland, but in 1966 they made a lengthy tour of the industrial areas of England and South Wales in a VW camper van towing an aged caravan. They staged an acclaimed exhibition [...] and two years later, when both were freelance photographers, began collaborating in photographing industrial monuments 1959. They married in 1961. The Bechers developed a new approaches and are regarded as
Conservation of the IndustrialHeritage (TICCIH) at Lyon and Grenoble in 1981 which led to the setting up of a group responsible for establishing a national inventory of industrialheritage at the Ministry [...] Bergeron was a distinguished French scholar who did much to establish the value of the study of industrialheritage with international bodies such as ICOMOS and UNESCO. He was born in Strasbourg and studied [...] interest in Industrial Archaeology developed in the 1970s under the influence of the historian Maurice Daumas (1910-84). He began to advocate in use of field evidence in the study of industrial and economic
he made an extensive tour of England, visiting Bristol, Bath, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Chester. He moved to Prussia in 1777 and became concerned with industrial developments in Upper Silesia [...] new constitution in 1790, and was concerned to develop the teaching of science, technology and industrial development at the institution as well as the arts.
Kenneth Hudson was one of the pioneers of the study of industrialheritage, not only in his native England but across most of Europe. He was born in north London and studied English at University College [...] 50 books many of them on topics related to industrialheritage or museums but some on entirely different subjects. Amongst the most influential were Industrial Archaeology: an Introduction (1963), the first [...] first full-size book on the subject, The Industrial Archaeology of Southern England (1965) one of the first regional studies, Air Travel: a Social History (1972), which exemplified his concern that historical
