BBC Brown Boveri

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BBC Brown Boveri was a major Swiss-based electrical engineering and power technology company that later became part of ABB through a merger.

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BBC Brown Boveri canonical 3
Brown, Boveri & Cie 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf electrical engineering company
power technology company
areaServed worldwide
basedIn Baden, Aargau ONNED1
country Switzerland
countryOfOperation Germany
Italy
Switzerland
United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved 1988
fate merged to form a new company
foundedBy Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown
Walter Boveri
hasLanguageOfOperation French
German
Italian
headquartersLocation Baden, Switzerland
historicalSignificance one of the largest European electrical engineering firms of the 20th century
inception 1891
industry electrical engineering
industrial automation
power generation
power transmission
keyPerson Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown
Walter Boveri
legalForm joint-stock company
mergedInto ABB
mergerPartner ASEA
mergerYear 1988
notableFor contributions to power plant engineering
development of high-voltage technology
railway electrification equipment
originalName BBC Brown Boveri self-linksurface differs
surface form: Brown, Boveri & Cie
parentOrganizationAfterMerger Asea Brown Boveri
surface form: ABB Group
product control systems
electric motors
gas turbines
steam turbines
switchgear
traction equipment
transformers
turbogenerators
shortName BBC
successor ABB

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ABB foundedBy BBC Brown Boveri
ABB formedByMergerOf BBC Brown Boveri
ASEA mergerWith BBC Brown Boveri
this entity surface form: Brown, Boveri & Cie
ABBN foundedByMergerOf BBC Brown Boveri
subject surface form: ABB Ltd.
BBC Brown Boveri originalName BBC Brown Boveri self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Brown, Boveri & Cie