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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Portrait of August Borsig
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 cemeteryFounders born in the 1800s 6
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Johann Karl Friedrich August Borsig was a German businessman who founded the Borsig-Werke factory in 1837, a railroad and steam locomotive manufacturing company. 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.
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Category
Founders
Type
Founder
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1804 to 1854 · aged 50
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