Rahr, who traded between England and Scandinavia. The opportunity to see a great industrial city at work gave him a deep appreciation of the potential for commercial and industrial enterprises funded by private [...] was one of the most influential bankers in Denmark and contributed significantly to the country’s industrial development. He founded or supported an extraordinary number of enterprises in diverse industries
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.
rails and locomotives during the industrial revolution, he transformed transport. Stephenson was self-taught as an engineer. He was born at Wylam in the north-east of England to a poor and illiterate family [...] properly, he was put in charge of all the engines belonging to an alliance of coal owners in north-east England. In his thirties, his true career began. He built his first railway locomotive, Blücher , in 1814 [...] builder of the nineteenth century, exporting engines around the world. Railways evolved during the industrial revolution from precursors in the Middle Ages. However, Stephenson’s Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Chicago for the International Electrical Congress. Meeting Thomas Edison and observing American industrial methods made strong impressions on him. As a result he remained in the United States and for a [...] a leader in typewriters, calculators and computers and is still a global brand. Ivrea is a World Heritage site, where both the Laboratory-Museum and the Olivetti Historical Archive present Olivetti’s story
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
España Industrial continued at Sants until 1972 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. [...] leaders of the large-scale cotton industry in Spain. He founded the company known as La España Industrial with his brothers in 1847 at Sants in Catalunya. It grew to employ 2,500 people. Josep Antoni was [...] family’s cotton to a wide market. After the death of their father, the company known as La España Industrial was created in 1847 in the names of the brothers Josep Antoni, Pau , Bernart, Jaume, Ignasi, Isidre
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
British Industrial Revolution, particularly in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, iron production and the invention of the steam engine. He helped to establish central Scotland as a heavy industrial region [...] region. Roebuck grew up in the city of Sheffield in northern England, where his father was a merchant. After grammar school and a nonconformist academy he studied medicine at the universities of Edinburgh
leading millwright and one of the most prolific British engineers of docks and waterways in the Industrial Revolution. As either designer or consulting engineer he reported on over 200 projects. Rennie [...] a millwright while studying at Edinburgh University. After graduating he went on a study tour of England, during which he visited the Boulton and Watt factory in Birmingham. James Watt spotted his exceptional [...] long. Numerous canal projects followed, including the Rochdale and Lancaster canals in north-west England, the Aberdeen and Crinan canals in Scotland and the Royal Canal of Ireland. His maritime projects
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
cotton-spinning factories. Industrial settlements associated with him are inscribed in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site. He grew up in Derbyshire in central England, where his family were farmers [...] During the British Industrial Revolution Jedediah Strutt was among the fathers of the factory system. After making innovations in knitting stockings he worked with Richard Arkwright to build the first
In 1784, Henry Cort invented one of the most important iron-making processes of the Industrial Revolution. This was a new method of transforming cast iron into the more versatile and valuable material [...] making it possible to have much larger, integrated ironworks. Cort was born in Lancaster, northern England, in 1740 or 1741. By the age of around 16 he was working as a naval agent – someone who gave out
silk in England by building a water-powered factory. It was an inspiration to later industrialists, including Richard Arkwright. The Lombe’s silk mill owed its success to John Lombe’s industrial espionage [...] to protect its industry but John smuggled his drawings back to England. In 1718, the brothers patented the Italian technology in England. They completed a new five-storey factory next to Crotchett’s mill [...] places in England, especially, at Stockport and Macclesfield in Cheshire. The Derby Silk Mill is a museum on the site of the Lombe brothers’ mill. It is part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site
political refugees in the transfer industrial expertise between countries. He left England and made a new life in France, where he was responsible for setting up industrial colonies and establishing new t [...] and Bourges, in central France. With the help of his son John, who undertook tours of industrial espionage in England, in around 1770 he developed the production of vitriol – the sulphate of various metals [...] rejoined the Jacobite army in France. In France around 1750 Holker was identified by government industrial advisers as a potential source of innovations. They supported him to set up two cotton textile
the idea of the cotton factory from England to mainland Europe. In 1771, Richard Arkwright built the first water-powered mill for spinning cotton at Cromford in England. This developed the idea of the factory [...] Ratingen, in North-Rhine Westphalia in 1783-4 he gave it the name Cromford. The building is now an industrial museum. Brügelmann grew up in a family of merchants at Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. [...] the innovations by Arkwright he decided to try to copy them. His friend Carl Albrecht Delius made industrial espionage visits to Britain in 1781 and 1782 to draw plans, get copies of machines and recruit
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.
Steam power was one of the critical innovations of the industrial revolution, allowing mechanical power to be concentrated wherever it was needed. The evolution of the technology relied on many inventors [...] gradually spread the use of engines to all parts of the world. Richard Williams was an engineer from England who moved in the 1780s to the southern German state of Saxony to build beam engines. The first ever [...] they could not make it operate successfully Bückling brought Richard Williams and another man from England in 1786 to improve it. Little is known about Williams, but he may have come originally from Cornwall
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
British canal engineer in the early part of the Industrial Revolution. He was responsible for a network of waterways that became the arteries of Britain’s industrial regions and linked its principal navigable [...] began the great age of canals as the arteries to transport the fuel, raw materials and products of industrial Britain. This was the 66-km Bridgewater Canal, completed in 1761, which carried coal to Manchester [...] north to London in the south. Several canals made up his scheme to join the four great rivers of England, the ‘Grand Cross’. This project was led by landowners and industrialists and financed by shareholders
lived. His father died soon afterwards. As a young man he was employed in a bank in the south of England. By 1812 he was the managing partner of the Horseley Iron and Coal Company at Tipton, near Birmingham [...] made them for both iron and wooden steamships. Manby also turned his attention from around 1819 to industrial opportunities in France. In 1822 he opened an engineering works at Charenton near Paris. By 1825 [...] The French company went bankrupt in the financial crisis of 1833. In around 1840 Manby returned to England. He sold the Horseley ironworks a few years later. His eldest son Charles continued as a highly regarded
