Bützov in Mecklenburg. His childhood was spent in his father’s home region of Württemberg on the banks Lake Constance, where he was educated by private tutors before attending the polytechnic at Stuttgart

enterprises in diverse industries across four decades through his leadership of the investment bank Privatbanken. Tietgen was born in Odense where his father was a cabinet maker. After schooling locally he [...] by private banks when he returned home five years later. He began working as a wholesaler in Copenhagen in 1855 but then in 1857 was appointed as a director of the newly created Privatbanken. Within a few [...] In the second half of the 19th century, Tietgen was one of the most influential bankers in Denmark and contributed significantly to the country’s industrial development. He founded or supported an ext

merchant ships and a steamship service between Cádiz and Marseilles. His commercial interests included banking and insurance. He was also appointed senator for the province of Málaga. He was constructing a chemical

the Quarry Bank factory. They moved to Manchester, where they joined intellectual circles associated with the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. In 1800, they built Quarry Bank House next to [...] Hannah Greg (née Lightbody) and her husband Samuel Greg were the owners of Quarry Bank Mill at Styal near Manchester in north-west England. The water-powered cotton-spinning factory was built by Samuel [...] The Gregs business became one of the largest in the British cotton industry. In addition to Quarry Bank Mill, they owned other factories in north-west England, at Reddish, Calver, Bollington, Lancaster

businesses. Its success led him to cofound the Kharkov Trade Bank (which became the third largest trade bank in the Empire) and the Kharkov Land Bank. Altschewskyj saw opportunities for economic development [...] Oleksij Altschewskyj was a Ukrainian banker and industrialist who created companies that developed large-scale coal mines, railways and steelworks in the Donbas basin in the late 19th century, making it [...] merchant and in 1862 he moved to Kharkiv. In 1866, he founded one of the first private commercial banks in the Russian Empire, the Kharkiv Mutual Credit Society, which was unusual in making short-term loans

working boat lift. The collections were started in 1985 and came to their present location in a former bank in 2014. In the harbour, the museum maintains a ship’s wheelhouse with a simulator for visitors to

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in the village at Xlendi. An audio guide is available. A stone embankment leads to a gate in the cliff and a 30-m entrance tunnel. A generator room near the entrance houses

1765 and 1775 by the neoclassical architect Denis Antoine on the Quai de Conti. It is part of the Banks of the Seine World Heritage site. The 177-metre building that faces the quay contained the offices

Located just off the Champs-Élysées, the Grand Palais is part of the 'Banks of the Seine' World Heritage site. It was built for the Paris world’s fair of 1900: the Exposition Universelle. Following an

bridge and chimney. Nearby are the charging house, a restored waterwheel for blowing the furnace, a bank of ore-calcining kilns and the ruins of a charcoal store and a limekiln. Blacksmiths demonstrate their

railways in St Petersburg. However, this only lasted until 1876 when Putilov’s company declared bankruptcy. In 1889 the transport connections were significantly improved when a railway line was built. However

famous brands such as Pierre Cardin and Christian Dior. The museum is in Brillaud’s factory on the bank of the river Creuse: a U-shaped complex of three and four storeys with a garden in the centre. The

Harbours, ships, locks, lighthouses, bridges, shipyards, water mills, pumping stations, irrigation systems and, of course, factories and power plants: 112 historic industrial sites and museums join th

of light rail and trams or tours of the transparent laboratory and tank depot of the largest cell bank in German-speaking Europe: it's here that modern factories open their doors for a close-up look behind

trade and shipbuilding in the major ports that made money from the import of colonial goods, but also banks and insurance companies, as well as inland industries that processed imported goods: Sugar refineries

company and developed interests in other sectors, including banking, lead mining, papermaking, coal trading and shipping. He founded the Vizcaya Bank in 1901 and the shipping company Compañía Marítima del Nervión

growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking, mining and railways but his principal significance was as a founder of the steel-making firm Altos

growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking, mining and railways but his principal significance was as a founder of the steel firm Altos Hornos

people in the country. He became a Serbian citizen and was an influential governor of the national bank of Serbia (later of Yugoslavia) for much of the period from 1890 to 1926. In the late 1890s Weifert [...] nephew and nationalised after the Second World War. He is commemorated by his portrait on Serbian banknotes.

founded the private Enskilda bank in Stockholm. In the following years he took partnerships in other enterprises, including the Atlas engineering works, railway companies and the bank Skandinaviska Kreditak [...] of parliament and newspaper owner. André’s son Knut Agathon Wallenberg (1853-1938) led the Enskilda bank after his father’s death. He was also a politician and Swedish foreign minister during the First World [...] was Markus Laurentius Wallenberg (1864-1943) , who trained in law and joined the executive of the bank in 1892, then took over as chief executive when Knut retired in 1911. Markus was involved with the