The early industrialists and railroad pioneer made in his company in Kassel in 1848, the first locomotive Hessian. The Henschel factory became the largest locomotive builder in Germany. In addition, Carl Anton Henschel invented the first axial-flow turbine and the “lying Kassel flame brick oven.” In addition to the engineering, the successful inventor also dealt with architecture and designed the striking foundry in Cassel. In the 1930s, posthumously, for the most developed Henschel locomotive manufacturer in Europe. Among the most vital engines of the Henschel works in Kassel is the first steam locomotive in the world, which was delivered in 1898.
Carl Anton Henschel was the son of the cannon and bell founder Carl Georg Christian on 23 Born April 1780 in Kassel.
Henschel’s father founded in 1810, a foundry and machine shop, the Henschel works in Kassel. Carl Anton Henschel also interested in the technique. Already in 1803 he designed a steam locomotive. Henschel 1817 received a patent for a steam car. Later he developed a so-called “lying smoked brick-hearth,” which was used by the Thurnauer pottery. From the year 1930 caused modifications of this type of furnace. Carl Anton Henschel 1837 invented the first axial-flow turbine for power generation. It was used by production companies for use of water energy, in view of the fact that coal was a very expensive source of energy at that time.
In the same year opened a second Henschel plant in Kassel, the Dutch court. There he built the first locomotive for the Electorate of Hesse. On 29 July 1848 it was shipped and arrived in 1844, founded the Elector Friedrich-Wilhelms-North train used first. The train was operated as a public company, and Henschel was also a shareholder of the railway company. Carl Anton Henschel, specializing in the construction of locomotives. First, he made the tractors are produced individually, but where he could reach a high number. By Henschel standard parts quickly found the serial production, which he could drive the numbers even further into the air.
Carl Anton Henschel died in 1861 in Kassel.
The Henschel works developed in the early 20th Century as one of the largest locomotive builder in Germany. End of the twenties, took over the plant parts of other companies, including Hanomag. In the thirties, Henschel became the largest locomotive manufacturer in Europe. Among the most vital engines of the Henschel works in Kassel is the first steam locomotive in the world, which was delivered in 1898. In 1910 Henschel produced the first electric locomotive and five years later, the first locomotive engine with a carburetor followed by Henschel. Henschel 1961 took part in the production of diesel locomotives of the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen.
From 1962 Henschel trading as public company. Two years later took over the Rhine Steel Works, the Henschel shares and the company was called “Rheinstahl Henschel AG”. Henschel 1969, from the Diesellokbau the company Klöckner-Humboldt Deutz AG in Cologne-Deutz. Rheinstahl AG was in 1976 in the Dignified Thyssen-Hütte AG Kassel plant “Thyssen Henschel”. 1990 was the “ABB Henschel AG” was founded, with headquarters in Mannheim. From 1 Disappeared in January 1996 the company name of the former locomotive manufacturer Henschel in the name of “ABB Daimler Benz Transportation Adtranz” as a merger of “Transport” Daimler Benz and ABB.
