Geneva in the Industrial Revolution

The atlas holds 7 people and 9 moments here, from 1761 to 1833. The most recorded lives are Lord Byron, Honoré de Balzac and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Lord Byron
in 1816
2 moments here
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), was a British poet, peer, and political speaker.…
Honoré de Balzac
from 1832 to 1833
2 moments here
French novelist and playwright, born in Tours and dead in Paris. Balzac created La Comédie humaine, an interlinked fictional panorama of…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
in 1766
1 moment here
Austrian composer and performer of the Classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart toured Europe as a child prodigy, made three formative journeys to…
Voltaire
in 1761
1 moment here
François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, dramatist, and philosopher.…
Hans Christian Andersen
in 1833
1 moment here
Danish writer renowned for literary fairy tales including “The Little Mermaid,” “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Snow Queen,” and “The Ugly…
Adam Smith
in 1765
1 moment here
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist of the Scottish Enlightenment, author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the…
Michael Faraday
in 1814
1 moment here
English chemist and physicist whose experimental work transformed the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.…