on 26 January 1926 he gave a demonstration to members of the Royal Society of the transmission of live moving images that showed tonal gradation. At around the same time he demonstrated successful experiments
moved towards a free-thinking position, and after an ultimatum from her husband, left him in 1874 to live in London, where she worked for eleven years with Charles Bradlaugh (1833-91), the free-thinker and
he and his companies suffered severe losses in the years after the First World War, and he did not live to see the subsequent prosperity of Czech industry.
Prussian army and was military governor of Metz during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. He returned to live in Germany in 1877 and was active in Imperial politics, becoming a close confidant of the Chancellor
Haslett became a powerful advocate for the benefits that electricity could bring to people’s everyday lives, and in particular for the emancipation that it brought for women. She was born in Sussex, one of
this book he suggested that people should not need to choose between town or country but be able to live in ‘town-country’ with the best of both. His work was a reaction against overcrowding in industrial
Alojzy Juhlke was one of many millions of East Europeans whose lives were changed utterly by the Second World War. He was born at Tuchola near Bydgoszcz in Poland, the son of a farmer, and expected to
the father of the Danish folk high school movement, and from 1878 worked for most of the rest of his live at the Folk High School founded in 1865 at Askov in South Jutland, a small town which even today has
of economic history, that industrial capitalism had created a proletariat, whose members could only live by selling their labour, has proved influential, and many historians would still regarded it as s
revolutionising the production of phosphorus), smokeless fuel ... and much more that changed peoples' lives for the better. He started from humble beginnings, working alongside his father at the iron foundry
from his religious convictions, as well as from a belief that it was better for industrial workers to live in village-like communities than in large cities. Rossi retired from business in 1892, although he
not adopt her as well as her sister. Her mother kept the baby and sent the four-year-old Johanna to live with Emilie Lukas, a housekeeper to the industrialist Karl Godulla at his mansion, Schomberg Palace
