Emil Strub
Emil Strub (born July 13, 1858 in Trimbach ; baptized name Emil Viktor Strub; † December 15, 1909 ) was a Swiss designer, engineer, railway builder and inventor . He made groundbreaking inventions for the rack railways and funicular railways .
He owed the foundations of his work to the mountain railway builder Niklaus Riggenbach , in whose workshops in Aarau he completed his first apprenticeship in 1882 and 1883. He then attended the Mittweida technical center and worked in the Hohenzollern and Esslingen machine works . At the end of 1886 he came back to Switzerland and was employed as a designer in the Central Railway Workshop in Olten . On February 14, 1888, the Federal Council elected him to the newly created post of control engineer for mountain railways at the Swiss Railway Department . He held this office until he was appointed inspector of the Berner Oberland-Bahnen (BOB) in 1891 .
But what Strub's name spread the most was the Strub rack and pinion system he invented . He won first price in the competition announced by Adolf Guyer-Zeller in 1896 for the best solution for the construction and operation of the Jungfrau Railway . The system he proposed worked brilliantly and several other cable cars and cog railways such as the Trieste - Opicina , Martigny-Châtelard , Brunnen - Morschach -Bahn, Asiago - Rocchette , Monte Carlo , Monthey-Champéry used it.
From 1896 he was director of the Jungfrau Railway until he built and managed his own engineering office in 1898. On January 9, 1899 he was elected consulting engineer for the mountain railway to Mont Pélerin . In 1902 he founded an office with Eduard R. Thomann to promote the electrification of railways in the mountains.
As an engineer he led a. a. the following systems: the Münsterschlucht-Bahn (1905/1908), the Mendelbahn (1902/1903) and the Virglbahn (1906/1907) in Tyrol , the Areskutan-Bahn in Sweden (1908/1909) and other railways in Austria-Hungary , Russia , Germany , Sweden, France , Spain and Italy .
source
- Walter Hefti : Zahnradbahnen der Welt , Birkhäuser, Basel 1971 ISBN 3-7643-0550-9
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| SURNAME | Strub, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss designer, engineer, railway builder and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trimbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1909 |