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Linde

History of a Technology Corporation, 1879-2004
By:H. Dienel
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781403920331
eText ISBN:9780230509535
Edition:0
Copyright:2004
Format:Page Fidelity

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In 1877, university Professor Carl von Linde obtained a patent for his refrigerator from the Imperial Patent Office - a patent for something that was not merely an invention, but the result of serious research in the basic laws of physics. Linde went on to found the Linde Company, one of the biggest German Gas and Engineering companies which became one of the models for science based industries. Today, the Linde Group, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, is a global technology company dedicated to gas and engineering, material handling and refrigeration. This book examines the history of this company in the context of the history of technology in industry.