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The Auergesellschaft, Berlin
The factory buildings of the Degea-Fabrik (Deutschen
Gasglühlichtgesellschaft AG/Auergesellschaft) and the Osram Factory
at Rotherstrasse, Friedrichshain, Berlin. Source, historical postcard
reproduced form Presglass-Korrespondenz.
Tungsten filaments and a pawn in a power game.
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety nine percent perspiration ….
Thomas Alvar Edison, 1847–1931.
9.1 Introduction
July 1909 was an exciting month at the physical chemistry department in
Karlsruhe, but the tension, uncertainty and calamity associated with the
demonstration for the BASF exhausted Haber and he began to suffer a
recurrence of his old ailment—stomach cramps and pains. At the end of the
month he took a holiday at the health resort of Pontresina in the Engadine
district of Switzerland. Here, sweet-smelling pine and larch forests surrounded the elongated spa town perched upon a south-west facing terrace in
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The Auergesellschaft, Berlin
The factory buildings of the Degea-Fabrik (Deutschen
Gasglühlichtgesellschaft AG/Auergesellschaft) and the Osram Factory
at Rotherstrasse, Friedrichshain, Berlin. Source, historical postcard
reproduced form Presglass-Korrespondenz.
Tungsten filaments and a pawn in a power game.
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety nine percent perspiration ….
Thomas Alvar Edison, 1847–1931.
9.1 Introduction
July 1909 was an exciting month at the physical chemistry department in
Karlsruhe, but the tension, uncertainty and calamity associated with the
demonstration for the BASF exhausted Haber and he began to suffer a
recurrence of his old ailment—stomach cramps and pains. At the end of the
month he took a holiday at the health resort of Pontresina in the Engadine
district of Switzerland. Here, sweet-smelling pine and larch forests surrounded the elongated spa town perched upon a south-west facing terrace in
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
D. Sheppard, Robert Le Rossignol, Springer Biographies,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29714-5_9
187