» industrialist
Noun (1 meaning)
industrialist is a type of:
- businessman, man of affairs (noun) - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
instances of industrialist:
- Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie (noun) - United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
- Cooper, Peter Cooper (noun) - United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive
- Curtiss, Glenn Curtiss, Glenn Hammond Curtiss (noun) - United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930)
- Daimler, Gottlieb Daimler (noun) - German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900)
- Deere, John Deere (noun) - United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)
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- Eastman, George Eastman (noun) - 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 (noun) - United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
- Ford, Edsel Bryant Ford (noun) - son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
- Ford, Henry Ford II (noun) - grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
- Frick, Henry Clay Frick (noun) - United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)
- Gillette, King Camp Gilette (noun) - United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932)
- Guggenheim, Meyer Guggenheim (noun) - United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905)
- Heinz, Henry John Heinz (noun) - United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)
- Hoover, William Hoover, William Henry Hoover (noun) - United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
- Hughes, Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughes (noun) - United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer
- Krupp, Friedrich Krupp (noun) - German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826)
- Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land (noun) - United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
- Nuffield, William Richard Morris, First Viscount Nuffield (noun) - British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)
- Opel, Wilhelm von Opel (noun) - German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948)
- Otis, Elisha Graves Otis (noun) - United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
- Owen, Robert Owen (noun) - Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
- Page, Sir Frederick Handley Page (noun) - English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
- Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, John Davison Rockefeller (noun) - United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)
- Sikorsky, Igor Sikorsky, Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (noun) - United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972)
- Solvay, Ernest Solvay (noun) - Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922)
industrialist is derivationally related to:
- industrialism (noun) - an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship
- industry (noun) - the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise