Industrial Corporations Founded Before 1870

Industrial and commercial corporations founded before 1870, in the early decades of industrial manufacturing: Krupp, the German steel and armaments manufacturer founded in 1811, is the member placed here. A corporation belongs here when its cited source gives a founding year earlier than 1870. It excludes firms founded from 1870 to 1925, which sit in the neighboring group of the same subcategory, and it does not turn on how large or how long-lived the firm became. Each member is placed by the founding year stated in the source cited for it, so the grouping rests on a quoted source.