- 1910a year of technological changes. Three German scientists win the Nobel Prize. Technical universities are authorised to confer doctorate degrees. the Berlin University is one hundred years old. This is the time when Emil Ziehl started with the "ZIEHL-ABEGG Electricity Company" in Berlin-Weissensee. He began with his fathers forge in Brandenburg via the technical university, then to AEG of Berlin and then to "Berliner Maschinenfabrik". As a chief engineer he gained experience which later led to the success of his own enterprise constructing special electric motors. His performance quickly earned him respect and a good reputation, He participated to a considerable degree in developing the first pole changeable lift motors and created the innovative basis for expansion of his enterprise.By 1918, the ZIEHL-ABEGG
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