Wahren was a Swedish businessman who developed the new industrial community of Forssa in Finland in the mid-19th century, one of the country’s earliest industrial towns. He was born into a family of merchants

Schustala (Czech: Ignác Šustala) began a small business making horse-drawn buggies and carriages in the mid-19th century at Kopřivnice (now in the eastern Czech Republic). His workshops expanded into a factory

manufacturer of biscuits who began his business in 1831 at Carlisle in north-west England. By the mid-nineteenth century he owned one of the largest bakery companies in Britain. Carr’s biscuits were known

links have made the previously uninhabited Jaworzyna Śląska an important transport hub ever since the mid-19th century. The Railway Museum of Silesia uses a large number of historical rolling stock and a ‘steam

19 th -century travelling shows and permanent ‘Luna Parks’ to the technological advances since the mid-20 th century. The displays include original artefacts, models, posters, photographs and videos. It

floors of a timber barn. Downstairs and outside are around 120 tractors and excavators, mainly from the mid-20 th century. Some are famous models used across the world and others are rare survivors. They include

Friedrich Krupp and Friedrich Harkort had collieries and blast furnaces popping up as early as the mid-19th century. Another innovator, Count Henrich zu Stollberg-Wernigerode, also recognised the opportunity

Pfeffer, reflect Berlin's close relationship with beer. The establishment of Pfeffer's brewery in the mid-19th century was followed by various other industrial facilities before the area became home to a thriving

design drawings by the first architect, Giuseppe De Min. A large-scale model shows the town in the mid-1960s. Other models show plants owned by the company elsewhere.

the French Revolution but a new forge was built in 1815 and a blast furnace soon afterwards. By the mid-1850s there were three furnaces, a foundry, a refinery and a slitting mill for making bar iron and

offers visitors the chance to discover ‘the city below the city’. Tours have been offered since the mid-19 th century of the sewers of the French capital. Parisian sanitation has evolved from the Roman era

once located. Visitors can follow five guided tours to see how metal ores were mined here around the mid-19th century. Not far away are the Masua mines with the port of Flavia , which is built into the local

profitable sugar cane plantations of their colonies, but industrialisation did not begin there until the mid-19th century or later. A direct link is therefore difficult to discern, but there too the immense influx

The Wallenberg family have been the leading business family in Sweden since the mid-nineteenth century. The business dynasty was begun by André Oscar Wallenberg and its business was expanded by his son

but their business was ruined by the catastrophic Lisbon earthquake of 1755. In 1757, still in his mid-20s, Stephens proposed building lime kilns at Alcântara using imported coal from Britain to make mortar

From around the mid-eighteenth century, the chemist and entrepreneur John Roebuck influenced important developments in the British Industrial Revolution, particularly in the manufacture of sulphuric acid

parts and eventually to mass production. Nevertheless, he died a poor man. Roberts grew up in rural mid-Wales, where his father was a shoemaker and tollkeeper for the New Bridge over the River Vyrnwy. While

Putilov was an important figure in defence, industry and engineering in Imperial Russia during the mid-nineteenth century. As a metallurgist and engineer for the state he developed munitions and defence

Manuel Pinto de Azevedo became one of the leading industrialists and entrepreneurs of Portugal in the mid-twentieth century. He worked his way up from a position as a factory employee to build a group of cotton

cast iron or works to manufacture wrought-iron until the investments of Pedro Benito Duro. In the mid-nineteenth century he constructed a large ironworks at La Felguera (now part of the city of Langreo)