Emil Huber-Stockar
Emil Huber-Stockar (* 1865 ; † 1939 ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and railway pioneer. After training as a mechanical engineer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and years of traveling in America, Huber took over the management of the Oerlikon (MFO) machine factory near Zurich (CH) founded by his father Peter Emil Huber-Werdmüller . He concentrated on practically solving the difficulties of electrically operated main railways with high power. On his own account, he set up the Seebach-Wettingen test farm in 1904 with high-voltage alternating current (15,000 volts) at a low frequency (15 Hertz). The operation was successful. The first railway to use this system, which is now standardized in many countries, was the Berner Alpenbahn-Gesellschaft Bern – Lötschberg – Simplon . In 1925 Emil Huber-Stockar received an honorary doctorate from the ETHZ for his achievements .
Emil Huber-Stockar was the older brother of the lawyer and diplomat Max Huber .
literature
- Martin Illi: Huber, Emil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Huber-Stockar in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seebach-Wettingen: the cradle of electrification in Switzerland. Federal Railways. (PDF 6.3 MB) Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 119 (1942), Issue 9, p. 99 , accessed on December 23, 2013 .
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| SURNAME | Huber-Stockar, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entrepreneur and railway pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1865 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1939 |