Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German railway pioneer
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Place of Birth: Bad Schwalbach, Hesse, Germany
About Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg
- Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg (12 May 1817 – 2 February 1886) was a German mechanical engineer and railway engineer. Edmund Heusinger was born in Langenschwalbach (present day Bad Schwalbach) in the state of Hesse in central Germany on 12 May 1817.
- In 1841 he became a master-workman with the Taunus Railway (Taunusbahn).
- In 1854 he was awarded a contract to build the Homburg Railway.
- He invented inter alia a new type of valve gear for steam locomotives that was to become the most widely used valve gear in the world.
- Because the Belgian, Egide Walschaerts, invented the same system independently, it is usually called the Walschaerts valve gear outside the German-speaking world. Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg died on 2 February 1886 in Hanover, in northern Germany.
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