English > industrialist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise. |
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| Instances | Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie | United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919) |
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| Cooper, Peter Cooper | United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive |
| Curtiss, Glenn Curtiss, Glenn Hammond Curtiss | United States industrialist and aviation / aviation / 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) |
| Ford, Edsel Bryant 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 Hoover, William Henry Hoover | United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932) |
| Hughes, Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughes | United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer |
| Krupp, Friedrich Krupp | German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826) |
| Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land | 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 | 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) |
| Otis, Elisha Graves 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) |
| Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, John Davison Rockefeller | 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 | United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972) |
| Solvay, Ernest Solvay | Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922) |
| Broader | businessman, man of affairs | A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) |
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| Spanish | industrial |
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| Catalan | industrial |
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| Nouns | industrialism | an economic system built on large / large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship |
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| industry | the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise |
