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    Walter Boveri (born 21 February 1865 in Bamberg, Kingdom of Bavaria, died 28 October 1924 in Baden, Switzerland) was a Swiss-German industrialist and...
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    founded in Baden bei Zürich, in 1891 by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri who worked at the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon. In 1970 BBC took over the...
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    industrialist Walter Boveri. Boveri was married to the American biologist Marcella O'Grady (1863–1950). Their daughter Margret Boveri (1900–1975) became...
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    ABB (redirect from ASEA-Brown Boveri)
    generators. Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) was formed in 1891 in Zurich, Switzerland by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri as a Swiss group of...
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  • German biologist, brother of Walter Boveri Marcella Boveri (1863–1950), US biologist, wife of Theodor Boveri Walter Boveri (1865–1924), Swiss industrialist...
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    The Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory (also known as the chromosome theory of inheritance or the Sutton–Boveri theory) is a fundamental unifying theory of...
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    chromosomes at the cellular level of living organisms. This is now known as the Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory. Sutton was born in Utica, New York, and was raised...
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    three-phase locomotives were supplied by Brown (by then in partnership with Walter Boveri) in 1899 on the 40 km Burgdorf–Thun line, Switzerland. Italian railways...
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    Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown (category Brown, Boveri & Cie)
    favoured the two-phase system. In 1891, Brown co-founded with Walter Boveri the company Brown, Boveri & Cie in Baden, Switzerland. Over the following decade...
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    three-phase locomotives were supplied by Brown (by then in partnership with Walter Boveri) in 1899 on the 40 km Burgdorf–Thun line, Switzerland. Italian railways...
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    three-phase locomotives were supplied by Brown (by then in partnership with Walter Boveri) in 1899 on the 40 km Burgdorf—Thun line, Switzerland. The first implementation...
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    Brown (1863–1924), joint founder of Brown, Boveri & Cie Walter Boveri (1865–1924), joint founder of Brown, Boveri & Cie Emil Frey (1889–1946), a composer...
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  • Oerlikon. After his brother founded the company Brown, Boveri & Cie. together with Walter Boveri in 1891, Sidney Brown became technical director there...
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    to steeply graded routes; in 1899 Brown (by then in partnership with Walter Boveri) supplied the first main-line three-phase locomotives to the 40 km Burgdorf–Thun...
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    long 27-kilovolt (kV)-line. The founder of Motor AG was Walter Boveri, co-founder of Brown, Boveri & Cie. Secure power supply became important early on,...
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  • instruments for industrial control systems, prior to its acquisition by Brown Boveri in 1974. The company was founded in 1838. The company was incorporated as...
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    Armengaud-Lemale gas turbine (category Brown, Boveri & Cie)
    Walter G (1941). "Pressure Charging, Velox Boiler and Gas Turbine, a review of their origin and development by Brown Boveri" (PDF). The Brown Boveri Review...
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    was Sutton's teacher and Boveri's friend, called this the "Sutton-Boveri Theory". Between 1902 and 1904 Theodor Heinrich Boveri (1862–1915), a German biologist...
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    based on Isings proposal and made this the topic of his dissertation under Walter Rogowski. In 1928, he relocated to Berlin and started building protective...
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    Walter G (1941). "Pressure Charging, Velox Boiler and Gas Turbine, a review of their origin and development by Brown Boveri" (PDF). The Brown Boveri Review...
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    surrounded himself by independently minded university graduates such as Margaret Boveri. She wrote in 1960 that Scheffer "was hated from the beginning by leading...
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    generations of American cytologists were influenced by Boveri: Edmund Beecher Wilson, Nettie Stevens, Walter Sutton and Theophilus Painter (Wilson, Stevens,...
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    Neuchâtel gas turbine (category Brown, Boveri & Cie)
    Walter G (1941). "Pressure Charging, Velox Boiler and Gas Turbine, a review of their origin and development by Brown Boveri" (PDF). The Brown Boveri Review...
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  • by man, south of 82°S. Walter Sutton (in the United States) and Theodor Boveri (in Germany) independently develop the Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory...
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    Velox boiler (category Brown, Boveri & Cie)
    Walter G (1941). "Pressure Charging, Velox Boiler and Gas Turbine, a review of their origin and development by Brown Boveri" (PDF). The Brown Boveri Review...
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    060 to 2,350 kW; 2,760 to 3,160 shp) for use while surfaced, two Brown, Boveri & Cie GG UB 720/8 double-acting electric motors producing a total of 750...
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    job with the Béla Egger & Co. Electrical company in Vienna (later Brown Boveri, now ABB), and moved there in 1893, at age 18. While working in Vienna,...
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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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    particularly suitable for heavy-duty industrial applications. The ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB) 5SNA2400E170100 , intended for three-phase power supplies, houses...
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    helped launch it in 1949. Theodor W. Adorno Leopold Weiss Walter Benjamin Franz Blei Margret Boveri Alfred Döblin Kurt Eisner Lion Feuchtwanger Erich Kästner...
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