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1888 to 1918
From the company's founding to the end of the First World War.





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1889
Founding of workshop and shop "Dräger & Gerling", Lübeck (Jan. 1) by J. Heinrich Dräger and Carl Adolf Gerling
1889
First patent - registered on Mar. 31 at the "Kaiserliches Patentamt" (Imperial Patent Office), is a carbon dioxide pressure reducer for use in beer machines (Lubeca reducing valve)
1889
World Exposition in Paris (Eiffel Tower)
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1901
Women employed for first time and women allowed to study medicine for first time in Germany
1902
Renaming of company to "Drägerwerk, Heinr. & Bernh. Dräger", father and son take over as joint managers
1907
First subsidiary "Draeger Oxygen Apparatus Co.", New York is founded.





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1910
Simulation system for dives to 200 bar
1912
Bernhard Dräger becomes sole proprietor
1914
Export quota: 40 % to Canada and USA
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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

1918
"November Revolution" in Germany and end of first worldwar

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