Jebsen was born at Broager in the Duchy of Schleswig in present-day Denmark, but after gaining experience in several countries became one of Norway’s leading industrial entrepreneurs of the nineteenth [...] Norway’s first mechanical weaving mill on the outskirts of the city. In 1844 he left Norway to gain experience of industry across Europe, spent six months working in a cotton mill in Manchester, and did not

century life. At the age of 15 he went to work for Siemens & Halske in Berlin, and from 1890 gained experience in the United States, before returning to Berlin to form R Burger AG in 1894, which manufactured

Carl Bally entered the family business at the age of 17 but subsequent travelled in order to gain experience in business, and while staying in Paris was inspired to set up a shoemaking business which he did

for his 20-session courses on Newtonian ‘Experimental Philosophy’ (i.e. physics). Triewald gained experience of coal mining and of the use of steam engines for draining mines while staying near Newcastle

Finland. He was born at Penicuik and was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers). He had some experience of the textile industry in Scotland before he went to St Petersburg in 1817 with the twin objectives

twelve bars of rolled iron in France, named for the occasion the "Twelve Apostles". In 1819, his experience earned him a gold medal at the exhibition of the national industry and also the title of Chevalier

Christopher Polhem was a polymath whose understanding of the natural world was based on experience gained in many other countries, and who influenced the technological development of industry throughout

From 1841, Göransson was involved in his family’s shipping and trading business and brought his experience of methods in countries he had visited. Among other interests, the company sold iron on global

Embrach, Switzerland, and served his apprenticeship at a foundry in Zurich before gaining working experience in France, Germany, Italy and Austria. He moved to Pest in 1841where he was involved with the

Geigy (1798-1861). He served an apprenticeship with his father before travelling to gain commercial experience in England, France and India. He returned to Basel to work for the family firm in 1854 and the

In 1924 Zino Davidoff travelled in Argentina, Brazil and Cuba, where he spent two years gaining experience of the cigar trade. He returned to Switzerland taking control of the family shop about 1930. He

engineers to gain an international reputation. He trained as a stone mason in Edinburgh and gained experience on contracts in London and Portsmouth before moving to Shrewsbury to refurbish the medieval castle

in St Petersburg owned by the government. In the early 1850s the young Nobel studied and gained experience of industry in France, Italy, Germany and the United States. He began to develop nitroglycerine

to become one of Europe’s principal producers of radio receivers, making a million by 1932. From experience gained in maintaining X-ray apparatus for the combatant armies during the First World War, from

opened in 1837 as the first steam-driven railway in France. By 1846 Goüin had the standing and experience to create his own engineering company. With financial backing from the banker James de Rothschild

legacy was his influence on a generation of British mechanical engineers. Amongst those who gained experience in his workshop were William Muir (1805-88), James Nasmyth (1808-90), Richard Roberts (1789-1864)

enlarge his understanding of engineering, working on the gas engine of J J Lenoir in Paris, gaining experience in a locomotive works at Strasburg, and at the factory of Joseph Whitworth (1803-87) in Manchester

1834, like ambitious craftsmen in many European countries, he went on the tramp, seeking to gain experience by plying his trade alongside skilled workers in other towns. He returned to Esqueheries in 1837

tanner but was apprenticed to tool making and on completing his articles went on the tramp to gain experience as a journeyman. At the age 23 he arrived at Chemnitz in Saxony, where he worked for Carl Gottlieb

company in partnership with Richard Peacock (1820-89), and Henry Robertson (1816-88), a Scot who had experience in building railways, and had acquired interests in ironworks in the Wrexham area of North Wales