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    Escher Wyss & Cie., also known as Escher Wyss AG, was a Swiss industrial company focused on engineering and turbine construction. Its headquarters were...
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    Escher Wyss is a quarter in the district 5 of Zürich, centered on the Escher-Wyss-Platz square. Escher Wyss was formerly a part of Aussersihl municipality...
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  • Dutch graphic artist 4444 Escher, an asteroid named after Maurits Cornelis Escher Escher Wyss (Zürich), a borough of Zurich Escher Museum, containing the...
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    Austria Va Tech Voest Mce, Austria Va Tech Escher Wyss, Germany Va Tech Escher Wyss, Italy Va Tech Escher Wyss, Spain Va Tech Hydro, Switzerland Va Tech...
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    transferred to Vinnytsia in Ukraine. Tram Zürich West, an extension from Escher-Wyss-Platz to Bahnhof Altstetten Nord, in the city of Zurich, opened in December...
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    but before his liberation he went to Zürich to work at the foundry of Escher Wyss AG as a casting apprentice. At the age of twenty he travelled a lot in...
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    Similar launches were produced in the same year by the Swiss company Escher Wyss AG. One of these was Alfred Nobel's graceful aluminium-hulled sloop Mignon...
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    Iroquois-class destroyers. The vessels are propelled by two shafts with Escher Wyss controllable pitch propellers driven by a CODOG system of two General...
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  • related to Wyss (surname). Patrician families: Wyss (Patrizierfamilie, mit den Kolben) [de] Wyss (Patrizierfamilie, mit der Lilie) [de] Escher Wyss (Zürich)...
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    Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG, an industrial company and contractor for the Nazi regime. Although...
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    transmission controlled by DEIF systems Propulsion: Andritz Hydro / Escher Wyss & Cie. 5-bladed controllable-pitch lineshaft twin screw Emission treatment:...
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    vocational schools. It contains the neighborhoods of Gewerbeschule and Escher-Wyss. Kreis 6 is on the edge of the Zürichberg, a hill overlooking the eastern...
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    acquired a 53 percent stake in Escher Wyss & Cie. in Zurich, reaching an all-time high of over 30,000 employees. In 1969, Escher Wyss AG was taken over in full...
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    city of Zürich. The district comprises the quarters Gewerbeschule and Escher Wyss. Together with today's District 4, the district formed the formerly separate...
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    their leading position in energy technology, the Swiss companies Sulzer, Escher Wyss and Brown Boveri built and put in operation around 35 heat pumps between...
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    engine mounting. The remaining 24 airframes were flown during 1947–9 with Escher-Wyss props, but never became operational. In May 1951, a developed version...
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    primary engineering firms in Ravensburg are the left-overs of the former Escher-Wyss AG (a subsidiary of the Swiss Sulzer AG) which are now subsidiaries of...
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  • Sponsor Nathpa Jhakri Power Corporation Kvaerner / ABB / Siemens / Sulzer Escher Wyss Foundation Continental Construction Corporation BHEL Jaiprakash Associates...
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    Machine shop of Swiss machine factory Escher Wyss, 1875...
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    River Limmat, a couple of roads of the Industriequartier (including Escher-Wyss-Platz), the railway tracks of the Zürich–Baden and Käferberg lines (including...
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    Iroquois-class destroyers. The vessels are propelled by two shafts with Escher Wyss controllable pitch propellers driven by a CODOG system of two General...
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    Cofely Refrigeration (former Axima Refrigeration, which was former Sulzer Escher-Wyss, a refrigeration and air-conditioning plant) Continental AG, BU ADAS...
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    Gewerbeschule Escher Wyss...
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    138 ft deep). She was built, like most of its Swiss counterparts by Escher Wyss in 1909 (as a CKD dismantled kit to be transported by railway and assembled...
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  • Francis turbine and generator groups of 300 MW each, supplied by Sulzer Escher Wyss and ABB Asea Brown Boveri respectively. The up to 7.25-metre-diameter...
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    6-megawatt (8,000 hp) T/G sets were supplied by Voith and AEG (units 1–5) and Escher Wyss and Oerlikon (units 6–10). In 1911, construction was complete. The plant...
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    Babacci which was then used as a base to construct the engine of the Escher Wyss company of Zurich and put on exhibit during the first National Expo of...
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    after the Etzel, a mountain overlooking Lake Zurich. She was built by Escher Wyss & Cie., has an overall length of 31.9 metres (105 ft), an overall width...
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  • of securities dates back to 1827 and the first share certificates for Escher Wyss are printed in 1839. In line with the developments of industrialisation...
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    the sole purpose of a tourist attraction without any other function. Escher Wyss & Cie. of Zurich delivered the Jonval turbines designed for submerged...
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