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Anna-Joséphine Dufour-Onofrio
Anna-Joséphine Dufour-Onofrio (1817–1901), was a French-Swiss businessperson.Tibère Adler, Pionnières de la Suisse moderne : des femmes qui ont vécu la liberté, Genève, Slatkine, 2014 (ISBN 978-2-8321-0638-9 et 2-8321-0638-2, OCLC 999810389 She was the owner of the major Etamine manufacture company ''Dufour & Cie'' from 1842, and developed it to an internationally important company. She founded the Thal Hospital. The ''Dufour & Cie'' was united with ''Thal et Zurich'' in 1907 and became the Sefar in 1995. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dufour-Onofrio, Anna-Josephine 1817 births 1901 deaths 19th-century Swiss businesswomen 19th-century Swiss businesspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etamine
Etamine is a loosely woven fabric with a similar structure to voile or a mesh. It is an open fabric structure manufactured with plain weaving by using hardly twisted cotton or wool yarns. There were further variations including various fibres such as silk. Etamine was initially used as filter cloth, but became popular in women's skirts from 1910. Etamine was used in a variety of applications, including garments, nun's veils, and even flags. Etymology The word , which means sieve, is a borrowed word from French language. See also * Sheer fabric Sheer fabric is textile, fabric which is made using thin Thread (unit of measurement), thread or low density of knits, knit. This results in a semi-Transparency (optics), transparent and flimsy cloth. Some sheer fabrics become transparency (optic ... References {{Fabric Woven fabrics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sefar
Sefar Group is a Swiss company specialized in screen printing and filtration applications. It is based in Heiden and Thal. Since its founding, it has specialized in the development, production, and distribution of precision fabrics. It has a history dating back to the early 19th century. In 2023, Sefar employed around 3,000 people worldwide, including 780 only in Switzerland, and achieved a revenue of CHF 367 million. The fabrics produced by Sefar are used in a variety of industries, including filtration and separation, screen printing and the production of innovative, functional fabrics. History The Sefar Group has existed in its current legal form since 1907 and is still owned by the six founding families. However, its roots go back to 1830, when Pierre Antoine Dufour started producing silk handkerchiefs for flour sieves in Thal in the canton of St. Gallen on behalf of Heinrich Bodmer, who had become the richest person in Zürich at the time through silk gauze production. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1817 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island. * January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina, to liberate Chile and then Peru. * January 20 – Ram Mohan Roy and David Hare found Hindu College, Calcutta, offering instructions in English on Western subjects, including other European languages. * February 12 – Battle of Chacabuco: Argentine and Chilean soldiers of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata defeat the Spanish royalist troops in what is now Chile, marking the turning point in the war against European rule of South America. * March 3 ** On his last day in office, U.S. President James Madison vetoes John C. Calhoun's Bonus Bill as unconstitutional after it has passed both houses of the U.S. Congress. ** The U.S. Congress passes a law to split the Mississippi Territory, after Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 Deaths
December 13 of this year is the beginning of signed 32-bit computing, 32-bit Unix time, and is scheduled to end in Year 2038 problem, January 19, 2038. Summary Political and military 1901 started with the Federation of Australia, unification of multiple Crown colony, British colonies in Australia on January 1 to form the Australia, Commonwealth of Australia after a 1898–1900 Australian constitutional referendums, referendum in 1900, Subsequently, the 1901 Australian federal election, 1901 Australian election would see the first Prime Minister of Australia, Australian prime minister, Edmund Barton. On the same day, Nigeria became a Colonial Nigeria, British protectorate. Following this, the Victorian era, Victorian Era would come to a end after Queen Victoria died on January 22 after a reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, longer than those of any of her predecessors, Her son, Edward VII, succeeded her to the throne. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Swiss Businesswomen
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
