resulted in the adoption of their ‘standard’ gauge of 1,435mm. He was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Exhibition in 1855 and honoured in Belgium and Norway among other countries.
age of 19 he took an apprenticeship with a seller of raw silk in Basel. After six years he went to Paris to work at an aniline dye factory, learning about the new chemical alternatives to natural pigments
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 took back [...] Jacques-Constantin Périer was born in 1742 into a family of merchants in Paris. He was self-taught in mechanics and saw early on the potential of steam power for water supply and other functions. In 1777-8 [...] brother Auguste Charles Périer founded a pioneering joint-stock company, the ‘Compagnie des eaux de Paris’, which won the right to supply water to private homes, public fountains and fire hydrants in the
Mulhouse and, two years later, working as a colourist in Paris. In 1760 he opened a workshop for printing cotton fabric in Jouy-en-Josas, south-west of Paris, with partners from France and Switzerland and members [...] weaving factory until 1894. The name Oberkampf is preserved in the Rue Oberkampf and metro station in Paris.
was 17 he was taken by the Duke to be a gardener at his house in Paris. After 6 years there he took a post at great Tuileries garden in Paris. He was responsible for the orangery, where trees were grown in [...] found other uses for his material, including rockeries, pools and pavilions. He showed these at the Paris Exposition universelle of 1867 and applied for a series of patents for garden pots, pipes, reservoirs [...] bois’). By 1869 he owned large workshops. After the interruptions of the Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune, in 1873 he patented a design for bridges. In 1878, his vision for the material extended beyond
c institute for map surveyors in Bavaria. He helped to establish similar institutions in Berlin, Paris, London and Vienna. In 1819 Senefelder wrote his book ' Vollständiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey'
Stockach and Engen and 1700-km away at Bucharest in Romania. At the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, Schiesser was awarded the Grand Prix for Innovation for its patented special products, including
deputy. His interest in industry began at the age of 30 when he went to the Universal Exhibition in Paris with his uncle, the mining engineer Benigno Arce. When they saw a machine for forging nails they decided
Luxembourg and the first President of the Chamber of Deputies. They studied engineering and law in Paris. In 1838 they formed with Charles and Belgian investors the partnership Société Auguste Metz & Cie [...] Luxembourg and the first President of the Chamber of Deputies. They studied engineering and law in Paris. In 1838 they formed with Charles and Belgian investors the partnership Société Auguste Metz & Cie
of France, where his father was an official at an ironworks. He studied medicine and chemistry in Paris and qualified as a surgeon. In 1780 he was appointed private physician to Duc Louis-Phillipe d’Orléans
ensured malfunctioning signals automatically displayed a safety position. When he visited the 1878 Paris World’s Fair he was inspired by seeing electric arc lamps demonstrated. He soon patented an automatic [...] Piett paper factory in PIlsen. His lamp won a gold medal at the World Electrotechnical Exhibition in Paris in 1881 and he set up a company to develop it. He produced the lamp in Bohemia while partners manufactured
focused on the opportunities to create export markets. His olive oil won medals in Barcelona and Paris. He built processing factories and warehouses on a new scale in several locations: four at Córdoba
when de Wendel was 16. His mother managed the company while he studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris and went to Britain to study mining and metallurgy. He returned to France in 1834. He shared control
absorbed by Germany following the Franco-Prussian War. He was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and Oxford University in England, where he read Greek, physics and chemistry. After military service [...] his invention of meters for taxis. Then, in 1905, he established the first motorised cab company in Paris, the Société des Fiacres Automobiles, ordering 250 matching red cars from Renault. By 1911 it had
and the year afterwards he went to Paris and a job with the Continental Edison Company where he was in charge of installing incandescent lighting. When Edison’s Paris manager returned to New York in 1884
the Lyon Méditerranée railway company. In 1857, this amalgamated with the Paris-Lyon line to form the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée. Talabot was Director General from 1862 for 20 [...] his father was a lawyer and president of the civil court. He studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris from 1819 and in 1821 began his career constructing canals at Brest in Brittany with the Corps des
hot-air balloon and the hydraulic ram. Séguin and his brothers studied science and technology in Paris with their uncle Joseph Montgolfier at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. On returning [...] 1830 and the rest in 1833. Séguin proceeded in 1837 to design and construct the Invalides railway at Paris. He retired to concentrate on family life and his scientific interests.
was developed and put into production by the Fourdrinier brothers in England. Robert was born in Paris. He joined the army in 1780 and rose to the rank of sergeant-major, fighting in the Caribbean against [...] American War of Independence. In 1791 he became clerk at the Didot printing and publishing house in Paris. When he moved as a manager to the Didot paper factory, south of the city at Corbeil-Essonnes, he
provide the first public gas lighting in Paris. In 1826 Manby and Wilson took over the historic iron furnaces at Le Creusot and redeveloped them along with their Paris operation under the title Société Anonyme [...] to be rebuilt and launched. In 1822 it crossed the English Channel and went up the River Seine to Paris. Among the ship’s innovations were its steam engines, which were of the oscillating type in which [...] 1819 to industrial opportunities in France. In 1822 he opened an engineering works at Charenton near Paris. By 1825 it employed 500 people. It made France independent in the manufacture of steam engines. With
