of war materials for Germany and made massive profits even though his businesses in England and Holland were sequestrated. He advocated forced labour of prisoners. After the War, he raised foreign loans

locomotives and it was making 800 more every year. She built a new administration building at Holländischer Platz, purchased the Heinrichshütte steelworks near Hattingen and acquired iron ore and coal mines

, and travelled through Denmark to Germany, Carinthia, Hungary, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland and England, before returning to Sweden in 1755 through the Low Countries. He assumed responsible

edition of A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent being a guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland , published in 1863, is a particularly good example [...] Darwin (1809-82) and Hermann Melville (1819-91). His first travel guide, A Handbook for Travellers to Holland, Belgium and the Rhine appeared in 1836 and was followed by guides to Greece, Turkey, Italy, France

Franciscus Quirien den Hollander was a railway manager, notable in the Netherlands as the man who directed the re-building of the railway system after the damage caused to it during the Second World War [...] that showed the potential of railways for linking together the continent’s principal cities. Den Hollander was a mechanical engineer who gave many scholarly papers on locomotives and other aspects of railway [...] companies Baldwin, who built the bogies, and Westinghouse, who provided the electrical components. Den Hollander developed the system of frequent services at regular intervals that has become a characteristic