!!!Engerth, Wilhelm Freiherr von

b. Pszczyna, Poland (then Pless), May 26, 1814, 
d. Leesdorf (municipality of Baden, Lower Austria), Sept. 4, 1884, 
railroad and mechanical engineer; brother of Eduard von  Engerth. 1844 
professor at the  Joanneum Research Institute in Graz, 1855 central 
director of the Austro-Hungarian State Railways; 1853 constructed the 
first mountain locomotive (for the  Semmering Railway), promoted the 
regulation of the Danube around Vienna and 1872 designed the blocking 
device (floating dam) for the Danube canal in Vienna, was head 
engineer in the construction of the exhibition halls for the 1873  
World Exhibition, Vienna; also advocated digging the tunnel through 
the Arlberg (mountain in western Austria).



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