Carl von Linde-Scientist, Inventor, Global Player

摘要

One of nine children in a Lutheran minister's family, Carl von Linde (Figure 1) was born in a village in upper Franconia/ Bavaria (Figure 2). He grew up well educated in a typical middle-class family and spoke German and French by age ten. While in high school in Kempten, Linde met the owner of a cotton spinning mill and was impressed by the mill's nozzles and steam engines, sparking his interest in engineering.