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 [...] forward his views through the New Moral World between 1834 and 1841. He visited France during the revolution of 1848, and from 1853 turned to spiritualism. His many followers met in numerous Owenite halls

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. His

Cromford to the inland waterways network, and was well-acquainted with intellectuals of the Industrial Revolution period, including Erasmus Darwin, James Watt and Samuel More. Part of the situation at that

John Cockerill was the archetype of those British engineers who took the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to continental Europe and developed successful and long-lived manufacturing enterprises. He

of agricultural produce, and for other purposes, the prime purpose of the canals of the Industrial Revolution period throughout Europe was to carry coal.

Friedrich Engels wrote one of the classic critiques of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution in England, devoted much of his life to supporting and publicising the writings of Karl Marx, and was [...] house of 1775, is preserved as part of the city`s history centre, which also includes a museum of industrial archaeology. He was the son of a cotton manufacturer, and spent three years in the employment of

high-quality ceramic wares, and, in a broader sense, to the intellectual background to the Industrial Revolution in Britain. He was born in Burslem, North Staffordshire, in a region where pottery manufacture

technological and economic changes in 18th century Britain that have been described as the Industrial Revolution. He was born in Greenock, the son of James Watt (1698-1782), a prosperous merchant and prominent [...] making the Boulton & Watt Collection in Birmingham one of the most important archives of the Industrial Revolution. Watt retained throughout his life interests in geology, mineralogy and chemistry, and was

younger brother of John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the most prominent ironmaster of the British Industrial Revolution. Both William and John Wilkinson grew up in Cumbria, where their father was employed at the

provide a detailed and moving account of the way of life of domestic textile workers during the Industrial Revolution. Bamford was born in Middleton 8 km north of Manchester, the son of a muslin weaver, a dissenter

machine tools that made possible the widespread percolation of engineering skills during the Industrial Revolution, and guided the education of many of the leading British engineers of the mid-19th century

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 [...] historians would still regarded it as stimulating, but his vision of a future in which communist revolution would be followed by the withering away of the state has materialised neither in those states that

In his youth James Walker worked with some of the outstanding civil engineers of the Industrial Revolution. In his adult years worked on many important projects in Britain and in Germany, and his contributions

interest in Industrial Archaeology developed in the 1970s under the influence of the historian Maurice Daumas (1910-84). He began to advocate in use of field evidence in the study of industrial and economic [...] Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) at Lyon and Grenoble in 1981 which led to the setting up of a group responsible for establishing a national inventory of industrial heritage at the Ministry [...] Bergeron was a distinguished French scholar who did much to establish the value of the study of industrial heritage with international bodies such as ICOMOS and UNESCO. He was born in Strasbourg and studied

John Hughes was a Welshman who gave his name to one of Europe’s largest heavy industrial complexes. He was born at Merthyr Tydfil where his father was an engineer at the Cyfarthfa ironworks. Initially [...] his sons, who, with most other Welsh workers, returned to the United Kingdom after the Bolshevik Revolution. The city that grew up around the works was named after Hughes ‘Yuzovka’, but later became ‘Stalino’

Bauwens was an entrepreneur and industrial spy who spread new cotton manufacturing technologies from England to Belgium and France at a key point in the early Industrial Revolution. He was born in Ghent, where

in 1855 was one of the biggest in the world, covering 168 hectares. The population of Łodz as an industrial city grew from 18,000 in 1851 to 100,000 in 1878. It became one of the most important textile [...] began travelling to study textile businesses in Britain, France and Germany. After the European revolutions of 1848 he decided to look towards the more stable conditions in Russia and Poland where his uncle

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

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

Iron foundries and engineering works were essential to equip new industries in the industrial revolution. In Denmark, Søren Frich was an engineer who created an important iron foundry and engineering works