Brown, Charles Eugène Lancelot (1863 - 1924)

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Swiss machine design engineer and co-founder of the multinational electrical engineering group Brown, Boveri & Cie. AG (today Asea Brown Boveri)

variant spelling:
Brown, Charles Eugène Lancelot

Curriculum vitae

* 19.06.1863	Winterthur (Kt. Zürich)	Born 19 June in Winterthur (Canton of Zurich)
1886	Zürich	Assumption of leadership of the electrical engineering department of the engineering works Oerlikon in Zurich founded by his father Charles Brown
1890		Oil insulation of transformer windings
1891		Engineering design of the cylindrical rotor of turbogenerators
1891		Construciton of the transformer plant, the generator and the oil insulators for AC transmission Lauffen-Frankfurt, the world's first transmission of electrical energy with high-tension AC, in collaboration with AEG
1891	Baden (Kt. Aargau)	Formation of the Brown, Boveri & Cie. AG (now Asea Brown Boveri) with Walter Boveri in Baden (Canton of Aargau) for the manufacture of electrical machinery
1898		Patent for an oil-circuit breaker
1900 - 1911	Baden (Kt. Aargau)	Chairman of the board of directors of Brown, Boveri & Cie. AG
† 02.05.1924	Montagnola (Kt. Tessin)	Died of a heart attack at 02 May in Montagnola (Canton Ticino)

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Industrialisation, ca. 1850-1920

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