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1889
'Dräger und Gerling' workshop is founded in Lübeck. |
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1899
The first patent, registered at the 'Kaiserliches Patentamt' [Imperial Patent Office], is a carbonic acid pressure reducer valve for use in beer machines - the 'Lubeca' valve |
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1902
Company is renamed 'Drägerwerk Heinr. & Bernh. Dräger'; father and son take over as joint managers. |
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1904
The 'Dräger-Roth' inhalation anaesthetic apparatus is introduced onto the market: modern anaesthesia technology begins. |
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1907
First subsidiary in the USA is founded. The name 'Draegerman' becomes synonymous with safety among mine rescue services and fire brigades; the Pulmotor emergency resuscitator saves lives all over the world. |
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1912
Within the space of just three years, 46 German patents, 35 international patents and 128 utility models are registered. |
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1913
First diving simulator is used to test deep-sea diving equipment at depths to 200 m, thus allowing the development and testing of, for example, a hoseless diving apparatus. |
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1914
Protective equipment is developed for use in the First World War: breathing masks, escape units, oxygen cases, portable anaesthesia devices. Over the following years, experimental devices using liquid and solid oxygen and narcylen anaesthesia apparatus are developed. |
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1930
The early 1930s see further development of gas analysis technology. The development of Dräger gas detector tubes enables measurement results as if from the analytical laboratory. |
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1931
Professor Piccard uses air purification system and liquid oxygen breathing apparatus during his spectacular flight into the stratosphere in a light metal balloon (to an altitude of 15,781 m). |
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1939
Production of breathing apparatus for mining applications, the steel and chemicals industries, civil defence and military is stepped up - Dräger's so-called counter-lung, a military escape unit, saves the lives of many a submarine crew in emergencies. |
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1946
A new range of equipment is developed in the post-war years: compressed air breathing systems, deep-sea diving equipment, long-term ventilators, gas detection technology, electronics, central medical gas supply in hospitals and maintenance systems. |
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1953
'Dräger Alcotest' is developed for breath alcohol measurement. Even back then, highly sophisticated measuring equipment was used to conduct alcohol testing on motorists around the world. |
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1969
Introduction of 300-bar technology in compressed air breathing apparatus signals lead forward in respiratory protection. The Helgoland underwater laboratory allows scientists to study the North and Baltic Seas. |
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1970
Drägerwerk becomes 'Drägerwerk Aktiengesellschaft Lübeck'. Nine years later the company is floated and preference shares are issued. |
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1983
Dräger participation certificates are quoted on the stock exchange; staff are offered participation certificates for the first time. |
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1984
Titan deep-sea diving simulator is used: simulating a water depth of 1,500 m, the Titan allows manned welding at a depth of 600m, i.e. below 60bar. |
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1985
The 'biorack filter system' for clean-room applications is used during the Spacelab's D1 space mission. |
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1989
World premiere at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Washington, USA: The 'Cicero' anaesthetic workstation system monitors and manages functions such as gas flow control and ventilation by means of modern data management. |
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(c) Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, 2007 |
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