industrialist
Noun
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Someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise (synset 110223796)
is a type of: businessman, man of affairs - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)specific instances:
- andrew carnegie, carnegie - United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
- cooper, peter cooper - United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883)
- curtiss, glenn curtiss, glenn hammond curtiss - United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930)
- daimler, gottlieb daimler - German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900)
- deere, john deere - United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)
- eastman, george eastman - United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)
- ford, henry ford - United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
- edsel bryant ford, ford - son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
- ford, henry ford ii - grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
- frick, henry clay frick - United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)
- gillette, king camp gilette - United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932)
- guggenheim, meyer guggenheim - United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905)
- heinz, henry john heinz - United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)
- hoover, william henry hoover, william hoover - United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
- howard hughes, howard robard hughes, hughes - United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)
- friedrich krupp, krupp - German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826)
- din land, edwin herbert land, land - United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
- first viscount nuffield, nuffield, william richard morris - British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)
- opel, wilhelm von opel - German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948)
- elisha graves otis, otis - United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
- owen, robert owen - Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
- page, sir frederick handley page - English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
- john d. rockefeller, john davison rockefeller, rockefeller - United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)
- igor ivanovich sikorsky, igor sikorsky, sikorsky - United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972)
- ernest solvay, solvay - Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922)
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