them employed more than a thousand people. Their porcelain was skilfully marked through outlets in Paris, Vienna and Budapest. Čžjžek left the porcelain company in 1875 after disagreements with his relations
) ordered that she should be protected after the liberation of Paris in 1944. She spent the next decade in Switzerland returning to Paris to re-establish her maison de couture in 1954, and living for the [...] Duke Dimitri Pavlovich (1891-1942), and in 1919 established a maison de couture at 31 rue Cambon in Paris. In 1920-21 she provided accommodation for the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) and gave
resulted in the adoption of their ‘standard’ gauge of 1,435mm. He was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Exhibition in 1855 and honoured in Belgium and Norway among other countries.
age of 19 he took an apprenticeship with a seller of raw silk in Basel. After six years he went to Paris to work at an aniline dye factory, learning about the new chemical alternatives to natural pigments
Trades in Paris. By 1786, the company supplied 20,000 private houses as well as numerous public fountains. However, it suffered from rising costs and falling share prices and the city of Paris took back [...] Jacques-Constantin Périer was born in 1742 into a family of merchants in Paris. He was self-taught in mechanics and saw early on the potential of steam power for water supply and other functions. In 1777-8 [...] brother Auguste Charles Périer founded a pioneering joint-stock company, the ‘Compagnie des eaux de Paris’, which won the right to supply water to private homes, public fountains and fire hydrants in the
Mulhouse and, two years later, working as a colourist in Paris. In 1760 he opened a workshop for printing cotton fabric in Jouy-en-Josas, south-west of Paris, with partners from France and Switzerland and members [...] weaving factory until 1894. The name Oberkampf is preserved in the Rue Oberkampf and metro station in Paris.
c institute for map surveyors in Bavaria. He helped to establish similar institutions in Berlin, Paris, London and Vienna. In 1819 Senefelder wrote his book ' Vollständiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey'
Gebrüder Gessert, manufacturers of paint, varnish and other chemicals. He represented the company at the Paris Exhibition in 1873, and rose to the post of chief clerk. In 1874 he became a partner in the chemical
Luxembourg and the first President of the Chamber of Deputies. They studied engineering and law in Paris. In 1838 they formed with Charles and Belgian investors the partnership Société Auguste Metz & Cie [...] Luxembourg and the first President of the Chamber of Deputies. They studied engineering and law in Paris. In 1838 they formed with Charles and Belgian investors the partnership Société Auguste Metz & Cie
of France, where his father was an official at an ironworks. He studied medicine and chemistry in Paris and qualified as a surgeon. In 1780 he was appointed private physician to Duc Louis-Phillipe d’Orléans
ensured malfunctioning signals automatically displayed a safety position. When he visited the 1878 Paris World’s Fair he was inspired by seeing electric arc lamps demonstrated. He soon patented an automatic [...] Piett paper factory in PIlsen. His lamp won a gold medal at the World Electrotechnical Exhibition in Paris in 1881 and he set up a company to develop it. He produced the lamp in Bohemia while partners manufactured
ownership rights in respect of the Völklingen Ironworks nearly threatens the ratification of the Paris Agreements which finally bring an end to the military occupation of West Germany in 1955. In the same
Wilhelm Hegel. In 1844 he went to Paris where he began a lifelong friendship with Friedrich Engels. The two were forced to move to Brussels in 1845, but Marx returned to Paris in 1848 where he witness the
was 17 he was taken by the Duke to be a gardener at his house in Paris. After 6 years there he took a post at great Tuileries garden in Paris. He was responsible for the orangery, where trees were grown in [...] found other uses for his material, including rockeries, pools and pavilions. He showed these at the Paris Exposition universelle of 1867 and applied for a series of patents for garden pots, pipes, reservoirs [...] bois’). By 1869 he owned large workshops. After the interruptions of the Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune, in 1873 he patented a design for bridges. In 1878, his vision for the material extended beyond
Stockach and Engen and 1700-km away at Bucharest in Romania. At the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, Schiesser was awarded the Grand Prix for Innovation for its patented special products, including
deputy. His interest in industry began at the age of 30 when he went to the Universal Exhibition in Paris with his uncle, the mining engineer Benigno Arce. When they saw a machine for forging nails they decided
south-east of England. His father, Anthony Bessemer, went to France as a young man to work for the Paris mint but returned to England during the French Revolution and began a type-foundry. After elementary
company at Paris making non-alcoholic drinks. Other innovations around 1900 were a vegetable bouillon cube and a meat stock cube that wad an accessible price for ordinary people. He moved to Paris with his
Spain. He undertook the construction of the Palais de l'industrie for the international exhibition in Paris of 1855, for which he was awarded the legion d’honneur. Over the next ten years he built railways
