in 1846 and from Vienna to Ödenburg in 1847. From 1841 to 1853 he was operations director of the Vienna to Gloggnitz railway. In 1856 he became director of the western line from Vienna, the Kaiserin El [...] of the steam-operated Vienna-Gloggnitz Railway, which opened in 1841. In the following years he constructed other locomotive railways, from Mödling to Laxenburg in 1845, from Vienna to Bruck an der Leitha [...] craftspeople; his father was a master painter-decorator. He studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna. He began work under his former tutor, the railway pioneer Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner , on the
industrial chemist. He was born in Vienna where he father was director of the imperial printing office, and, after military service studied at the University of Vienna from 1878. In 1880 he went to Heidelberg [...] he was a student of Robert Bunsen (1811-89), and was granted his doctorate in 1882. He returned to Vienna where he worked largely on rare earth elements and succeeded in developing several new products for
education at the Lyceum there he studied law in Vienna, mining at Báňská Štiavnica and mineralogy in Graz. In 1819 he became a professor of natural sciences in Vienna and travelled across central Europe studying [...] monarchy in the visionary form of a complete network of 2,200 km from the Adriatic at Trieste to Vienna and regions of industrial and geological potential in Moravia, Upper Silesia and Galicia. He made [...] and a joint stock company he provided the rationale for the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn (KFNB) from Vienna to North Moravia and Silesia that enabled official approval and financial support. Karl Ritter von
and in Vienna – where the Rothschilds founded the merchant bank "Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe" in 1855 – the manufacturing of rail cars and locomotives flourished in particular. The Vienna International [...] decisive role: starting in the mid-1850s, the Kaiser Ferdinand Northern Railroad provided services from Vienna to Prague via Brünn, with a branch to Galicia. The Südbahn, or "Southern Line", ran via Laibach to [...] first mountain railway, formed one section of this. The development of the polytechnic schools in Vienna and Prague into technical universities as early as 1815 proved to be a farsighted act. The indus
structural use of iron and steel. An example is displayed in the Technical Museum in Vienna. He remained in Vienna after resigning his post in 1882 and was buried in the city’s Döbling cemetery. [...] r. In 1837 he went to Austria where his first task was to plan the workshops of the railway from Vienna to Raaber, a private concern built in 1840-46, which was later known as the Ostbahn and extended
the Austrian Sudbahn. Karl Golsdorf was born at Semmering, studied at the Technical University of Vienna, and spent some time working for general engineering companies before becoming chief mechanical engineer [...] freight locomotive of which nearly a thousand examples were built, as well as passenger stock for the Vienna Stadtbahn, powerful rack locomotives for the Erzbergbahn and narrow gauge locomotives for mountain
finally to Vienna. When he was 18 he ran away to the United States, where he spent two years working as a waiter, a musician, a language teacher and a canal boatman. When finally he returned to Vienna he studied [...] in the fields of art, architecture and music – he was particularly known for his support for the Vienna Secession movement. Among his eight children were the famous Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein
employed more than a thousand people. Their porcelain was skilfully marked through outlets in Paris, Vienna and Budapest. Čžjžek left the porcelain company in 1875 after disagreements with his relations. He [...] European railway. Čžjžek was involved in banking, having been a founder of the Wiener Bankverein (Vienna union of banks) in 1869. He made a world tour in 1898 to promote the Empire’s exports and was su
saddle-maker and then as a wheelwright. He then worked for seven years for leading carriage builders in Vienna. When he returned to Kopřivnice his older brother found him a small farm building where he began [...] omnibuses and post vans across the Austro-Hungarian empire. Schustala started branches as far apart as Vienna, Berlin, Wrocław, Prague and Kiev. By 1880, he had produced some 1,200 carriages. When the railway
traded in spices at Kraków. After his father died when he was 13 he studied commerce and banking in Vienna then at the age of 18 returned to Kraków to manage the family business. He sought new industrial [...] states to study industrial organisation and innovation. He was a joint promoter of the Warsaw to Vienna railway project begun in 1835. He also had interests in a cotton spinning factory, a sugar factory
Paris to Cologne and from Vienna to Munich, and the following year gained favourable publicity by providing trains to take Parisians to the International Exhibition in Vienna. Lack of capital forced him [...] the Mann services between the principal cities of German, extending across the German borders to Vienna, Bordeaux, Ostend and to Orsova on the Danube, the eastern frontier of the Habsburg Empire. The company [...] airlines. In 1960 the company still had about 13,000 employees, with workshops in Paris, Ostend, Rome, Vienna, Munich, Athens, Irun, Madrid and Istanbul. The company was re-named the Compagnie Internationale
metals. In the mid-16th century, Hungary became part of the Habsburg Empire, and the monarchs in Vienna used their new domains mainly to supply food for the empire. Mountainous, poorly accessible Slovakia [...] The first railway line, from Bratislava to nearby Svätý Jur, opened in 1840 and soon extended to Vienna. Budapest was connected in 1850, and in 1872 trains were crossing the country from Košice in the [...] developed on the Danube. Thanks to its location on the river and its proximity to the metropolis of Vienna, Bratislava gradually developed into an urban centre with industrial operations. When Czechoslovakia
fahr(T)raum means ‘driving dream’ and ‘driving space’. Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951) began his career in Vienna at the age of 18 and became one of the world’s most prolific and influential automobile designers
with Bela Egger (later Brown Boveri) in Vienna rather than to attend university, although he surreptitiously went to lectures at the Technical University of Vienna. He went to work in 1898 for Lohner, a
From Vienna to Trieste in 13 hours and 4 minutes - in 1857, when the last track of the Südbahn was laid, this was considered a sensation. Until then, crossing the Alps had been a challenging and time-consuming
between Gloggnitz and Murzzuschlag built in 1848-54 was part of the Sudbahn, the railway that linked Vienna, capital of the Habsburg Empire, with the principal imperial port at Trieste. It was the first main
company making optical glass in Jena in 1846. He was born at Weimar, studied at Jena then travelled to Vienna, Berlin and Stuttgart. His company revolutionised the manufacture of optical glass, and made its
son of a railway engine driver, and educated in the same city. After several jobs, including one in Vienna, where he failed to settle, he set up an iron foundry with August Ritter in 1871. His partner proved
leather, wood and paper remained dominant. The government in Vienna determined where rail lines were built. The Southern Railway from Vienna to the Adriatic had priority, connecting Celje and Ljubljana
