Linde, plc bought the BOC Group, and in 2019 Linde plc merged with Praxair, thus combining all three companies founded by Linde
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Carl von Linde
Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered the refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, which led to the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator in 1876.
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Born 11 June 1842 · Died 16 November 1934 · Q61864
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1934· 1 entry
Died 1934-11-16.
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1922· 1 entry
Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1922).
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1916· 1 entry
Awarded Werner von Siemens Ring (1916).
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1914· 1 entry
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1914).
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1907· 2 entries
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1907).
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A company that passed through US Government control to Union Carbide in the 1940s and on to form Praxair
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1906· 1 entry
Linde negotiated a stake in Brin's Oxygen Company, renamed The BOC Group
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1903· 1 entry
Which revolutionized metal cutting and welding in the construction of ships, skyscrapers, and other iron and steel structures
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1901· 1 entry
Linde began work on a technique to obtain pure oxygen and nitrogen based on the fractional distillation of liquefied air
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1897· 3 entries
Won Grashof Commemorative Medal (1897).
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Awarded Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown (1897).
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Linde was appointed to the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and ennobled in accordance with its statutes
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1895· 2 entries
Succeeded in liquefying air by first compressing it and then letting it expand rapidly, thereby cooling it
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Linde first achieved success, and filed for patent protection of his process (not approved in the US until 1903)
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1892· 1 entry
An order from the Guinness brewery in Dublin for a carbon dioxide liquefaction plant drove Linde's research into the area of low-temperature refrigeration, and in 1894 he started work on a process for the liquefaction of
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1888· 1 entry
Linde moved back to Munich where he took up his professorship once more but was soon back at work developing new refrigeration cycles
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1879· 1 entry
Gave up his professorship and founded the Gesellschaft für Lindes Eismaschinen Aktiengesellschaft ("Linde's Ice Machine Company"), now Linde plc, in Wiesbaden, Germany
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1872· 1 entry
And set up an engineering lab where students such as Rudolf Diesel studied
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1870· 1 entry
And 1871, Linde published articles in the Bavarian Industry and Trade Journal describing his research findings in the area of refrigeration
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1868· 1 entry
Linde learned of a new university opening in Munich (the Technische Hochschule) and immediately applied for a job as a lecturer; he was accepted—at the age of 26—for the position
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1864· 1 entry
Was expelled before graduating for participating in a student protest, but Reuleaux found him a position as an apprentice at the Kottern cotton-spinning plant in Kempten
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1854· 1 entry
And eight years later he started a course in engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, where his teachers included Rudolf Clausius, Gustav Zeuner and Franz Reuleaux
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1842· 1 entry
Born 1842-06-11.
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