LC control no. | n 2002109542 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Drägerwerk |
Variant(s) | Draegerwerk |
Beginning date | 1889 |
Located | Lübeck (Germany) |
Found in | Lorentz, Bernhard. Industrieelite und Wirtschaftspolitik 1928-1950, 2001: t.p. (Drägerwerk) p. 9 (Drägerwerk AG) Physiologie des Tauchers, aus der "Tauchertechnik" 1962 Draegerwerk, Lubeck, Germany, 1947 Wikipedia, July 24, 2017 (Drägerwerk; Drägerwerk AG is a German company based in Lübeck which makes breathing and protection equipment, gas detection and analysis systems, and noninvasive patient monitoring technologies. Customers include hospitals, fire departments and diving companies ; The company was founded in Lübeck in 1889 as Dräger & Gerling [no publs. in LC/NLM databases] by J. Heinrich Dräger and Carl Adolf Gerling. The first patent was taken out for a reduction device for using carbon dioxide to dispense beer. In 1902 Heinrich Dräger's son Bernhard entered the management; from then on, the company was named Drägerwerk Heinr. und Bernh. Dräger [no publs. in LC/NLM databases]. Since 1970, Drägerwerk has been a public limited company, or Aktiengesellschaft (AG) in German) |