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Born the son of a priest, Linde was expected to follow in his father's footsteps, but took another direction entirely. In 1861, he started a course in engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland, where his teachers included Rudolf Clausius, Gustav Zeuner and Franz Reuleaux.
In 1864 Linde finished university, and Reuleaux found him a position as an apprentice at the Kottern cotton-spinning plant in Berlin. He started there the same year but stayed only a short time before moving to the new Krauss locomotive factory in Munich, where he worked as a construction engineer.
Linde married Helen Grimm in February 1866; their marriage lasted 53 years and they had six children.
In 1868 Linde heard about the opening of a new university in Munich (the Technische Hochschule) and immediately applied for a job as a lecturer; when he was accepted for the position he was only 26 years old. Linde set up an engineering lab, where students such as Rudolf DieselRudolf Diesel ( March 18, 1858 September 30, 1913) was a German inventor, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine. He was born in Paris and died on the English Channel. Rudolf Diesel developed the idea of the compression ignition engine during the l studied the subject.
In 1871 Linde published an essay on improved refrigeration techniques. This caught the interest of a large number of breweriesA brewery is a facility that produces beer. Typically a brewery is divided into distinct sections, with each section reserved for one part of the brewing process. Breweries can take up multiple city blocks, or be a collection of equipment in a homebrewer', and soon Linde was supplying them with his refrigerating machines, while constantly working to improve them.
In 1878 Linde made the decision to put all his time and effort into the production of refrigerating machinery; he gave up his professorship and founded a refrigerating company, Lindes Eismaschinen AG, (now Linde AG ) in WiesbadenWiesbaden is a city in central Germany. It is the capital of the Bundesland of Hesse. Wiesbaden is situated on the right ( north) bank of the Rhine ( German: "Rhein"), near the city of Mainz (spelled "Mayence" in older English documents, but generally spe. Business went well; the company sold products to breweries, slaughterhouses and cold storage companies all over Europe.
In 1890, Linde moved back to Munich, where he took up his professorship once more, and developed his new, ground-breaking refrigeration technique, now known as the "Linde technique" (see Inventions ).
Linde was a member of scientific and engineering associations, including being on the board of trustees of the German National Metrology InstituteThe Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB is based in Braunschweig and Berlin. It is the national institute for natural and engineering sciences and the highest technical authority for metrology and physical safety engineering in Germany. Part of its and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
From 1910Events January events January 13 The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera. January 26 ? Seine floods in Paris. February events February 8 The Boy Scouts of America is in Linde withdrew from his position as head of his now hugely successful company, passing on the leadership to his sons Friedrich and Richard. The Great DepressionThe Great Depression was a global economic slump that began in the United States following Black Thursday, the Wall Street panic of October 1929. On October 24, 1929, share prices on Wall Street collapsed catastrophically, setting off a chain of bankruptc of 1929Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 See also 1929 in aviation 1929 in film 1929 in literature 1929 in mu was a hard blow to Linde AG, but the company rallied and Linde saw profits start to rise before his death in 1934 at the age of 92.