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    Brown, Boveri & Cie. (Brown, Boveri & Company; BBC) was a Swiss group of electrical engineering companies. It was founded in Baden bei Zürich, in 1891...
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    ABB (redirect from ASEA-Brown Boveri)
    Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA) and Switzerland's Brown, Boveri & Cie merged to create Asea Brown Boveri, later simplified to the initials ABB. Both companies...
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    lattice mast Designer: Jan Polak Model and Manufacturer: Brown, Boveri & Cie, Brown Boveri SL 61 B3 Power: 1,000 kW (1 MW) Total Power: 2,000 kW (2 MW)...
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    Lancelot Brown (17 June 1863 – 2 May 1924) was a Swiss businessman and engineer who co-founded Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC), which later became ABB. Brown was...
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    and co-founder of the global electrical engineering group Brown, Boveri & Cie. (BBC). Boveri's ancestors originally came from Savoy and settled at the beginning...
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    turbocharger, model VT402, was delivered from the Baden works of Brown, Boveri & Cie, under the supervision of Alfred Büchi, to SLM, Swiss Locomotive...
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  • Swiss industrialist, co-founder of the company Brown, Boveri & Cie, brother of Theodor Boveri Margret Boveri (1900–1975), German journalist and publicist...
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    with Brown, Boveri & Cie to build a market-ready 1,000-horsepower (746 kW) gas turbine however output and efficiency were below expectations and Brown, Boveri...
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    and thus was not well received. In 1915 Büchi began a dialog with Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) to set up cooperation, though it took them until 1923 to reach...
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    Neuchâtel gas turbine (category Brown, Boveri & Cie)
    go into commercial operation. It was designed and constructed by Brown, Boveri & Cie and installed in 1939 at the municipal power station in Neuchâtel...
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    now in use was patented by Brown, Boveri & Cie in 1924. Hugo Stotz, an engineer who had sold his company to Brown, Boveri & Cie, was credited as the inventor...
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    for short. In 1987, it announced a merger with the Swiss company Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) to form ABB. The merge took effect on 1 January 1988. After...
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    locomotives used by NSB. The locomotives had electric components from Brown, Boveri & Cie and a General Motors Electro-Motive Division 16-645E prime mover...
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    Hoffmann-La Roche licensed the invention to Swiss manufacturer Brown, Boveri & Cie, its joint venture partner at that time, which produced TN displays...
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    British Rail 18000 (category Brown, Boveri & Cie locomotives)
    turbine–electric locomotive built for British Railways in 1949 by Brown, Boveri & Cie. An earlier gas-turbine locomotive, 18100, had been ordered from...
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    with Kraftwerk Union alternators (units 1, 3 and 4) and one unit by Brown Boveri & Cie (unit 2) that was supposed to be the second unit at the gas-fired...
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    to the First World War, he managed the high voltage laboratory at Brown, Boveri & Cie. In 1920, he was made a professor at the Technical University in...
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  • (ICAO code) Bogotá Beer Company, Colombia; see Beer in Colombia Brown, Boveri & Cie, a former Swiss power/automation company Bhiwani Boxing Club, India...
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    SBB-CFF-FFS RBe 540 (category Brown, Boveri & Cie multiple units)
    Starting in 1959, the SBB motor coach of the type RBe 4/4 (designation at last RBe 540) was for a replacement of the old SBB electric locomotives Ae 3/6...
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  • invented by Brown, Boveri & Cie Electric toothbrush, the Broxodent by Dr. Philippe Guy Woog Gearless cement drive developed by Brown, Boveri & Cie in 1969...
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    increased to 108 officers and 2,500 men. She was powered by three Brown, Boveri & Cie geared steam turbines, each driving a screw propeller, with steam...
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  • William Brown (1865–1941), art collector and executive of Brown, Boveri & Cie, married Fanny Sulzer (1871–1968), three sons. Jane France Eugénie Brown (born...
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    55 atmospheres of pressure. These supplied steam for one set of Brown, Boveri & Cie turbines, which provided power for the center 4.9 m (16 ft) three-bladed...
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    Contraves). In 1967, Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon was taken over by Brown, Boveri & Cie, which merged with ASEA in 1988 to form ABB Group. The site of the...
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    Krauss-Maffei. The electrical parts were developed by Siemens, AEG and Brown, Boveri & Cie. Both the parts were assimilated and finished by Friedrich Krupp...
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  • by Swedish ASEA in 1987, then later in 1988 when ASEA merged with Brown, Boveri & Cie to form ABB, the company became a division of ABB and hence known...
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  • After his brother founded the company Brown, Boveri & Cie. together with Walter Boveri in 1891, Sidney Brown became technical director there and later...
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    720 kW) at 470 to 485 rpm. When submerged it was propelled by two Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) GG UB 720/8 double-acting electric motors, giving a total of...
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    Armengaud-Lemale gas turbine (category Brown, Boveri & Cie)
    of their origin and development by Brown Boveri" (PDF). The Brown Boveri Review. 28. Baden, Switzerland: Brown Boveri and Company. Meyer, Adolf (1939)....
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    DB Class 103 (category Brown, Boveri & Cie locomotives)
    Type and origin Power type Electric Builder AEG, Brown Boveri & Cie, Henschel, Krauss-Maffei, Krupp, Siemens AG Build date Prototype: 1965 Production:...
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