Alfred Büchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Büchi

Swiss engineer (1879-1959)

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1879

Place of Birth: Winterthur, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Date of Death: 27-Oct-1959

Profession: politician, inventor, mechanical engineer

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Alfred Büchi (July 11, 1879 – October 27, 1959) was a Swiss engineer and inventor.
He was best known as the inventor of turbocharging.
Alfred J.
Büchi was born July 11, 1879, in Winterthur, Switzerland, growing up there and in Ludwigshafen.
He was the son of Johann Büchi, a chief executive at Swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm Sulzer.
Alfred was well-positioned to pursue a similar field and would eventually achieve fame as a result of his inventions.
In 1899 he enrolled as a machine engineering student at Federal Polytechnic Institute (ETH) in Zürich, receiving a degree in 1903.
From there he practised engineering in Belgium and England before returning to Switzerland (Wetzikon) in 1908.

Johannes Meiner (1867–1941)
Description	photographer
Date of birth/death	28 January 1867	15 June 1941
Location of birth/death	Zittau	Zürich
Work location	Switzerland
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