oppressive aspects of working class life in industrial Europe in the nineteenth century. Zola was born in Paris, the son of a naturalized Italian engineer, but from 1843 spent his childhood years in Aix-en-Provence [...] vence. His family became poor following the death of his father in 1847 and he returned to Paris in 1858, finding employment as a clerk with a shipping firm, but also gaining the acquaintance of such artists
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
sixfold between 1711 and 1831. In London, it increased by about 130% between 1800 and 1850, and in Paris - where industrialisation began later - it doubled. Nowhere was prepared for the onslaught, and slums
links with the continental Europe, and supplied steam engine cylinders and cast-iron pipes for the Paris waterworks in the 1780s. The Founderie Royale was initially unsuccessful, and William Wilkinson returned
when de Wendel was 16. His mother managed the company while he studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris and went to Britain to study mining and metallurgy. He returned to France in 1834. He shared control
absorbed by Germany following the Franco-Prussian War. He was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and Oxford University in England, where he read Greek, physics and chemistry. After military service [...] his invention of meters for taxis. Then, in 1905, he established the first motorised cab company in Paris, the Société des Fiacres Automobiles, ordering 250 matching red cars from Renault. By 1911 it had
interval of peace that followed the treaty of Amiens in 1802 he visited Frankfurt, Strasburg and Paris. Watt also developed a copying process in 1781. Copies were kept of engine drawings and of the outgoing
same time he dammed up the muddy banks of the Thames to create new land for supply pipelines. In Paris the urban planner Georges Haussmann, who had started to radically redesign the inner city in a re
of a thousand chimneys’. Cavrois specialised in high-quality fabrics for the fashion industry of Paris. When he built his house he departed from traditional bourgeois villa architecture and chose the French
suffered from ill-health that a long sea voyage and a stay in Egypt failed to cure, and he died in Paris at the age of 35. Percy Gilchrist also suffered from ill-health, but retired early, and lived to the
In 1938, Ford opened a new purpose-built factory at Poissy, less than 20 km from Paris. Over the following eighty years, the area became renowned for its car industry: manufacturers with factories there
Monnaie de Paris is the oldest continuing institution in France, created in the year 864 as a royal mint. Coins were made initially with hand-stamps, then from the 17th century with screw presses. The
heritage of the car makers DS, Peugeot and Citroën. It is situated near Le Bourget airport north of Paris in a modern building of 6,500 m² – appropriately on the Boulevard André Citroën, which is named after
and the year afterwards he went to Paris and a job with the Continental Edison Company where he was in charge of installing incandescent lighting. When Edison’s Paris manager returned to New York in 1884
the Lyon Méditerranée railway company. In 1857, this amalgamated with the Paris-Lyon line to form the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée. Talabot was Director General from 1862 for 20 [...] his father was a lawyer and president of the civil court. He studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris from 1819 and in 1821 began his career constructing canals at Brest in Brittany with the Corps des
hot-air balloon and the hydraulic ram. Séguin and his brothers studied science and technology in Paris with their uncle Joseph Montgolfier at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. On returning [...] 1830 and the rest in 1833. Séguin proceeded in 1837 to design and construct the Invalides railway at Paris. He retired to concentrate on family life and his scientific interests.
Marken’s plant at Delft, and for many other food factories. The company displayed its products at the Paris World Exhibition in 1893. Stork was strongly Protestant in religion. As an employer he was an enlightened
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.
photographs and examples of costumes made from silk and fabrics designed for the fashion houses of Paris. Part of the museum is devoted to the history of the Charlieu corporation of weavers, which is now
