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nounsomeone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprisetype of:
Definition that contains industrialist
- page English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
- 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)
- owen Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
- 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)
- hoover United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
- rockefeller United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)
- heinz United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)
- carnegie United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
- guggenheim United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905)
- frick United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)