Emil Strub

Emil Strub ( born July 13, 1858 in Trimbach, baptismal name Viktor Emil Strub, † December 15, 1909 ) was a Swiss engineer, engineering, railway builder and inventor. He made pioneering inventions for rack railways and funiculars.

The basics of his work he owed the mountain railway builders Niklaus Riggenbach, in its garages in Aarau he 1882 and 1883 his first lesson went through over the years. He attended on the pilot Mittweida and worked in the machine shops Hohenzollern and Esslingen. At the end of 1886 he returned to Switzerland and worked as a design engineer in the Central railway workshops in Olten. On 14 February 1888, the Federal Council elected him to the newly created post of a control engineer for cable cars to the Swiss railway department. This office he held until his appointment in 1891 as a curator at Berner Oberland Railway (BOB ).

What Strubs name but the most popular ones, which he invented rack system Strub was. He won the first prize at the 1896 advertised by Adolf Guyer- Zeller competition for the best solution for the construction and operation of the Jungfrau Railway. The proposed system it has proved to be shiny and some more rope and rack railways such as the Trieste- Opicina Martigny- Châtelard, well - Morschach train, asiago Rocchette, Monte Carlo, Monthey- Champéry used it.

From 1896 he worked as Director of the Jungfrau Railway to 1898 he built up his own engineering bureau and managed. On January 9, 1899, he was elected to the consulting engineer of the mountain railway to Mount Pélerin.

As an engineer he led, inter alia, following investments made ​​: the Münster Canyon Railway (1905/1908), the Mendola funicular (1902/1903) and the Virglbahn (1906/1907) in the Tyrol, the Areskutan train in Sweden (1908/1909) as well as other railways in Austria - Hungary, Russia, Germany, Sweden, France, Spain and Italy.

Source

  • Walter Hefti: cog railways in the world, Birkhäuser, Basel 1971 ISBN 3-7643-0550-9
  • Railway engineer
  • Engineer, inventor, engineer
  • Rail transport ( Switzerland )
  • Swiss
  • Born in 1858
  • Died in 1909
  • Man
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