national boundaries was Julius Maggi. He was born in Switzerland. His father owned a flour mill near Winterthur, which Julius took over at the age of 23. The family firm became Julius Maggi and company in 1872

For some years his patron was Carl von Linde, pioneer of refrigeration, for whom he worked in Winterthur, then in Paris and in Berlin. His first experiments with an engine were in Paris in 1885, and he [...] warships. The engine was first applied to a railway locomotive in 1913, by the Sulzer company in Winterthur, and in 1924 MAN demonstrated a diesel-powered motor truck at the Berlin Motor Fair. Mercedes Benz