tallest and longest aqueduct in Britain since 1805 - and the Barton Swing Aqueduct with its swinging 1.450-ton and 100-metre-long trough that can be rotated a full 90 degrees. Particularly living up to the
the company in her own name in 1908, ‘M. Bentz’, and employed her husband and her two sons. She sold 1,200 units at the Leipzig trade fair in 1909. In 1910 she developed the device further so that the coffee
between Nürnberg and Fürth, opened in 1835. By the time that he retired in 1866 he had built nearly 1,000 km of railways. He was born in north-eastern France in 1795. At around the age of 6 he moved with [...] for freight and passengers in Germany. It was a single-track line on Stephenson’s standard gauge of 1,435 mm. In its early years it was operated by both a Stephenson locomotive and by horses. Denis designed
and paper manufacture and created the Zurich steamship company. By the 1830s, the company employed 1,200 people. It had pioneering schemes for education, housing, health care and help for the elderly and
public railway line, which opened in 1837 for 27 km from St Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo. This line was 1,829-mm gauge and used both horse and steam power. In 1838 he went to the United States of America to
sold the ironworks at Fischbacker and Halberg and concentrated production in Neunkirchen. By 1870, 1,350 employees produced an annual output of 10,000 tons of pig iron. Coal and iron ore mines were acquired
. From 1802 until 1843 Thornton was director and part-owner of the mill at Pottendorf. It employed 1,800 people by 1811 and was one of the largest cotton factories in Europe. Thornton was ennobled in 1812
r in the Lorraine region of north-east France. When he joined the family company it produced about 1% of French pig iron. When he died it was the largest producer in France and employed 7,000 people. Wendel
this sub-region into a European centre of heavy industry. A typical example is the blast furnace No. 1 of Altos Hornos de Vizcaya in Sestao, its setting on the fjord-like Ría de Bilbao being essential for [...] article in 'Industriekultur': "Fortschritt zwischen Meer und Minen. Regionale Route Baskenland, Teil 1"
cars to be coupled and uncoupled easily. By 1890 it had made over 600 ropeways. By 1899 it has built 1,000 and employed several dagreement with Trenton Ironworks in the USA and sales offices across Europe
Carlos Carbonell y Morand was an important figure in the development and promotion of the olive oil industry in Andalucía, Spain. He produced a reliable quality of olive oil in large quantities and de
markets across Europe and South America. It is said that the company at its greatest size employed 1,200 workers. Several of Fèteira’s sons became successful businessmen.
"Blue Sunday" conceals an almost two-week programme of very different events throughout the region from 1 to 11 September. A tour of the "Christine" slate mine in Willingen, for example, takes visitors into
The inventor and businessman Andras Mechwart led the Ganz engineering company at Budapest after the death in 1867 of its founder, Abraham Ganz . He joined the company in 1859 and remained with it for
Josep Antoni Muntadas y Campeny was one of the leaders of the large-scale cotton industry in Spain. He founded the company known as La España Industrial with his brothers in 1847 at Sants in Catalunya
Royal Navy dockyard at Woolwich. He also designed the stone breakwater at Plymouth, which extended for 1.6-km in waters up to 20 m deep, and devised with Robert Stevenson the Bell Rock lighthouse on the east
used a linen made from the ramie plant. By about 1900 the firm produced 12,000 items a year with some 1,300 staff, a quarter of them home-workers. When Jacques died in 1913, Malwine and their son-in-law Wilhelm
large quantities of bleaching powder to other consumers. Production grew rapidly and they soon employed 1,000 people and opened a second plant at Hebburn near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tennant bought out his partners
Gabriel Maria Ybarra 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 bank
