!!!Schindler, Friedrich Wilhelm

b. Mollis (Switzerland), June 1, 1856, 
d. Kennelbach (Vorarlberg), Nov. 19, 1920. Entrepreneur and inventor. 
Pioneer of power industry and electrical engineering; in 1907 he 
founded the electric power company "Jenny & Schindler", which was 
converted into the "Vorarlberger Kraftwerke GmbH" in 1916. Numerous 
patents for electro-thermal appliances. In 1893 exhibited the first 
fully electronic kitchen at the world exhibition in Chicago. In 1898 
founded "Elektra" company (since 1901 "Elektra Bregenz").

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