Emil Huber-Stockar, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Swiss engineer and mechanical engineer (1865-1939)
Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1865
Date of Death: 09-May-1939
Profession: engineer, mechanical engineer
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About 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 at Zurich (ETHZ) and spending some years in America, Huber took over the management of the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, founded by his father Peter Emil Huber-WerdmĂĽller, near Zurich, Switzerland.
- He focussed on solving the difficulties of high power, electrically powered mainline railway systems.
- In 1904, he electrified the Seebach-Wettingen line with high-voltage alternating current (15,000 volts) at low frequency (15 Hertz).
- This experimental operation was successful.
- The first railway to use this system (standard in several European countries today, but with a frequency of 16.7 Hertz) was the Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon railway.
- In 1925, Emil Huber-Stockar received an honorary doctorate from the ETHZ for his achievements.
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