August Borsig
German businessman, founder of Borsig-Werke (1804-1854) · Founders · Died at 50
Johann Karl Friedrich August Borsig was a German businessman who founded the Borsig-Werke factory in 1837, a railroad and steam locomotive manufacturing company.
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Technical drawing of the first steam locomotive (1840)
Gate of the former Borsig-Werke factory in Berlin
Borsig steam locomotive used on the Warsaw-Vienna railway
Johann Friedrich August Borsig's family tomb on the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof graveyard, after a sketch by Heinrich Strack
The memorial pictured in 2007 in the Berlin cemeteryAbout this person
The first engine was finished in 1840 and at the time of his death in 1854 He was in a monopoly position when Borsig Werke had made 500 locomotives and 67 of the 68 new Prussian locomotives came from Borsig factories.
