of the Phoenix Gas Co works at Greenwich. The company’s initial focus was the laying of gas and water mains. The younger man joined the firm in 1851 as its emphasis moved from the construction of gas

spinning machine that incorporated rollers rotating at different speeds that gained the name of the water frame. He leased premises in the city in 1769 for a horse-powered factory, although it may not have [...] (1726-97) and Samuel Need. On 1 August 1771 he leased premises at Cromford, where he built a five-storey, water-powered cotton-spinning mill, in which he had a 20% share, which attracted attention from all over [...] in Bakewell, Wirksworth, Rocester, Chorley and Manchester, and at New Lanark. His patents for the water frame and associated carding machinery were challenged, and he lost them in 1785. The originality

at Düsseldorf Kunstakademie between 1976 and 1996. Their work is best known through their books, Water Towers (1988), Blast Furnaces (1990), Gasholders (1993), Mine Headstocks (1997), Cooling Towers and

housewife she was dissatisfied by methods of making coffee. She found that ground coffee in a jug of hot water resulted in coffee that brewed too long and the espresso equipment of the time left gritty grounds

government of New South Wales. The capacity of Beyer Garratt locomotives to carry large quantities of water and fuel and their low axle loadings made them especially successful in Africa and in South America

exhibited at a fair in Berlin in 1844, and his 100th was completed two years later. He also manufactured water pumps, and structural ironwork for the domes of the Nicolai church in Potsdam and the Stadtschloss

marketing. He had substantial capital from his wife’s family and in 1761 he began building a large water-powered factory on a new site at Soho near Birmingham to manufacture small metal goods such as buttons

(the Venetian Company for Public Enterprises and Construction). This company was responsible for new water supply systems for Venice and Naples, further railway and tramway projects and important public buildings [...] the principal share in an iron foundry at Terni in Umbria, which supplied cast iron pipes for his water-supply projects. In 1884, he was supported by the Italian government to launch a new company with

earthworks and built low aqueducts, narrow tunnels and short bridges at right-angles to the canal. Water supply for his canals often proved insufficient for the enormous traffic they generated. Some of his

separate compartments. The shield was driven forward by jacks and the tunnel was lined in brick. Water broke into the workings several times and progress stopped until government funding was offered in

father on the construction of the Thames Tunnel in east London, where he was seriously injured when water burst into the workings on 12 January 1828. During his convalescence at Clifton he made the acquaintance

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 – [...] Brügelmann built his new Cromford factory at Ratingen, 40 kilometres away from Elberfeld. It used an old water-power site on the river Anger. It was five storeys high and designed on the Arkwright model by Rutger

he imported high-quality wheat from Canada at low cost. His Table Water Biscuit was introduced in 1832. This was a cracker made with water and flour, inspired by ship’s biscuits taken on long sea voyages [...] products and in treating his employees fairly. He provided communal baths for workers, using hot water from the steam engine boiler, gave religious instruction to his workers and built a school and library

drawn to be involved with entertainment and worked as a singer, then as a waitress serving mineral waters at the spa at Vichy, where she began a series of affairs with wealthy men that provided a foundation

In 1851 he established, financed and built the town’s gasworks, and in 1859 formed the Broadstairs Water Company, whose waterworks is now the town museum, and includes the 24.38m high Crampton Tower, at

had been damaged by an explosion a few years previously. Darby and his partners also developed a water-powered works at Tern (on the site of the present Attingham Park), where they intended to refine pig

which made the paper smoother and stronger than paper from other processes. Dickinson purchased the water-powered Apsley Mill at Hemel Hempstead, north of London, and set up his first factory in partnership

in the Russian language. He visited Finland in 1819 and subsequently gained permission to build a water-powered factory in Tampere alongside the Tammerkoski rapids. At first he used the buildings as mechanical

chilled cast-iron rollers for the porcelain rollers previously used, and roller milling plant, with water turbines, were the basis of the company’s prosperity in the 1870s. An electrical engineering department

University of Padua at the age of 18. He subsequently held posts with the government, working on water supply systems and roads in Veneto, including the construction of the road over the Cortina d’Ampezzo