Industrialists
7 profiles
Technology
Lee Byung-chul
Founder of Samsung, South Korea’s largest business group
1910 – 1987
Technology
Lars Magnus Ericsson
Swedish inventor who founded the telephone company Ericsson
1846 – 1926
Technology
Kōnosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic, Japan’s “god of management”
1894 – 1989
Technology
Carl Benz
German engineer who built the first practical petrol-powered automobile
1844 – 1929
Technology
Werner von Siemens
German inventor and industrialist who founded Siemens
1816 – 1892
Technology
Robert Bosch
German engineer who founded Bosch and pioneered the car magneto
1861 – 1942
Technology
Gerard Philips
Dutch engineer who co-founded Philips as a light-bulb factory
1858 – 1942