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* 19.06.1863
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Winterthur (Kt. Zürich)
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Born 19 June in Winterthur (Canton of Zurich)
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1886
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Zürich
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Assumption of leadership of the electrical engineering department of the engineering works Oerlikon in Zurich founded by his father Charles Brown
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1890
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Oil insulation of transformer windings
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1891
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Engineering design of the cylindrical rotor of turbogenerators
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1891
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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
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1891
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Baden (Kt. Aargau)
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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
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1898
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Patent for an oil-circuit breaker
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1900 - 1911
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Baden (Kt. Aargau)
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Chairman of the board of directors of Brown, Boveri & Cie. AG
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† 02.05.1924
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Montagnola (Kt. Tessin)
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Died of a heart attack at 02 May in Montagnola (Canton Ticino)
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