and provided gas lighting for Seville in 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

Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the business people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking, mining and railways but

Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking, mining and railways but

glassworks. Cobalt blue was exported widely, especially to Britain’s porcelain, glass, paint and paper industries. Wegner bought the company on behalf of an investment group and was made Director-General and co-owner

Knut retired in 1911. Markus was involved with the development of important Swedish and Norwegian industries. In 1898 he bought the Swedish license for the Diesel engine and founded Diesels Motorer at Stockholm [...] engines. With the Norwegian Sam Eyde he founded Elkem (Det Norske Aktieselskap for Elektrokemisk Industri) and the Norsk hydroelectric company, which made Nitrogen fertiliser at Notodden. He also founded

textile-dyeing workshop at Norrköping. At the age of 18 he began a three-year study tour to see textile industries in Sweden, Germany, Austria and other countries. For a time he managed a dyehouse in Bielitz in

and coal, had good supplies of water and could draw capital from the steelmaking and shipbuilding industries. However, Urgoiti’s factory was among those struggling to adapt and he toured Europe examining

industrial development. He founded or supported an extraordinary number of enterprises in diverse industries across four decades through his leadership of the investment bank Privatbanken. Tietgen was born [...] newly created Privatbanken. Within a few years, Tietgen was leading initiatives to invest in Danish industries. The bank held shares in many of the companies and Tietgen frequently held shares himself and took [...] efficiencies and create virtual monopolies. He did this in the sugar, chicory-coffee and spirits industries among others. In 1869, he joined with other bankers internationally to create the Banque de Paris

country. He worked in the cotton industry in Britain and then helped to establish mechanised textile industries in two regions – the city of Hamburg and lower Austria. He grew up on a farm in Yorkshire. His [...] rs. At this time, Britain banned the export of machinery from the country’s innovative textile industries and the emigration of skilled workers, but entrepreneurs in Europe and America were keen to compete [...] Pottendorf. He also supplied equipment for weaving, aiding growth throughout Austria’s textile industries. His brothers followed him to Austria and were involved with cotton mills close by: Joseph Thornton

The ability to bleach products was increasingly important during the Industrial Revolution as industries such as cotton manufacturing and papermaking grew rapidly. In traditional bleaching, materials were [...] Charles Tennant, made it far easier to transport and use. It became a pillar of the new chemical industries. Charles Tennant was born into a farming family in Ayrshire, south-west Scotland. As a boy he was

working day that he had previously negotiated with trades unions. At the time of his death, his industries operated in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Balkans, Russia and Argentina. However, the conglomerate

mills for the woollen and flax industries were built, notably by Wendisch in 1827 and Gayers in 1835. However, tariffs between Poland and Russia caused the industries to decline. When tariffs were removed [...] Karl (or Karol) Scheibler learned about the mechanised textile industries in several parts of Europe and took his knowledge to Łodz in Poland. The factory he built there in 1855 was one of the biggest

Novartis AG. Sandoz was born in Basel when the dye and bleach industries there were evolving rapidly alongside the Swiss textile industries. His father was a cloth merchant. At the age of 19 he took an [...] Basel in Switzerland is one of the world’s centres of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Edouard Sandoz created one of the leading companies in the sector in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

promoted the international diffusion of technology in the iron and steel and mechanical engineering industries, and advocated in Great Britain the high standards of technical education that he observed elsewhere

works at Kinneil, about 10 km east of Carron, though he could raise enough capital to develop the industries as intended. At the same time, he went into partnership with the young inventor James Watt and

in The Hague, St Petersburg and Brussels, and was acknowledged by Emile Muller of the Societe Industrielle de Mulhouse to have had a powerful influence on the design of the Cite Ouvriere in that city.

Mint and devised machinery for flour mills, textile factories, breweries and other steam-powered industries. In 1810 he built a new factory at Southwark, London, for his mechanical projects. He began supplying

powerful family business at Maastricht producing ceramics and glassware. He diversified into other industries and led the industrialisation of the city. His family for several generations before him were merchants

of Friedrich Anton von Heynitz (1725-1802), Germany’s principal expert on mining and associated industries. Reden was born in Hamelin in Lower Saxony and in 1768 began an apprenticeship in the metalliferous

facilities and later, as a businessman at St Petersburg, he advanced Russia’s iron, steel and transport industries. Putilov came from a noble family near Novgorod in western Russia. He trained at the Sea Cadet