Luxembourg's inventions and creations TOP5

When Luxembourg is mentioned, people will think of a strong financial industry and investment funds. As the country with the highest per capita income in Europe, it is surprising that Luxembourg is also a country that does not lack innovation.

1. Henri Tudor's accumulator

Henry Tudor was an engineer, inventor and industrialist. In 1881, he successfully perfected the system for storing electrical energy in lead-acid batteries, which was also the first system in the world to use lead-acid batteries to store electrical energy, so he became one of the pioneers in the field of electricity storage. The system has been in continuous operation for 16 years without interruption. In 1886, this system was used for urban lighting in Luxembourg, and gradually used in all streets in Europe. Nearly 25,000 people worked in Henry Tudor's manufacturing plants before his death.

The one on the right is Henry Tudor

2. William Justin Kroll's soft titanium

The Kroll program is very new to most people. However, it is precisely because of this technology that the development of the steel industry has entered a new stage. The man behind this industrial revolution was one of Luxembourg's greatest innovators, the metallurgist William Justin Kroll.

Even today, the development of various sciences and technologies owes much to William. In 1932, he invented an industrial process for extracting titanium from calcium and titanium tetrachloride, perfecting the production of stable, corrosion-resistant soft titanium metal. It was a revolutionary discovery that has since been used in a wide range of architectural and engineering products, including components for aircraft, boats, cars, tennis rackets, jewelry and even surgical implants. The industrial production of titanium has opened the door for large-scale commercialization, and titanium-based alloys are used in the development and application of jet engines on a large scale.

3. Hugo Gernsback, father of science fiction

In 1906, Hugo Gernsback, born in the small town of Boonevoi, Luxembourg at the age of 22, invented the wireless telegraph, which became the origin of the walkie-talkie we use today.

At the same time, he also created a publishing empire of science fiction, publishing a total of 50 scientific and popular science newspapers, magazines and periodicals. In 1929, he created the term "science finction", and science fiction was born, and in 1960, he won the award "Hugo Award" created by himself.

4. Luxembourg glass (Glass manufactured in Luxembourg)

The Burj Khalifa, which has created a new height in the Dubai skyline, is 828 meters high and is the tallest building in the world ever. This huge building costs 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, has 160 living floors, a total of 57 elevators, and a construction area of 310,000 square meters. The most amazing thing is that this silver spiral rocket-shaped building is covered with kilometers of glass, reflecting the sky through the shell.

The glass of this giant building was built by a company Guardian Luxguard SA in Bascharage, Luxembourg. All these glasses were produced at a temperature of 26 degrees and shipped to Dubai for installation at a temperature of 48 degrees. The solar panels filter all the sun's energy and can withstand strong winds of up to 250 km/h.

5. Polar station (a polar station)

In 2008, in order to fulfill the dream of explorer Alan Hubert (Alian Hubert) to establish a scientific base in Antarctica, the Luxembourg construction company Prefalux built a 700-square-meter zero-emission polar station in Antarctica in only 6-8 weeks. To resist extreme weather at an altitude of 4,000 meters and minus 50-80 degrees. Polar stations built by Prefalux consume only 20% non-renewable energy.

For Prefalux, designing and building such a complex project was undoubtedly a huge challenge, but in the end the Luxembourg company has created a miracle in this field, which has finally earned it an extremely high reputation. Today, the space station can accommodate about 20 scientists.

For this incredible achievement, the Prefalux team received the Trade Innovation Award in 2008. The project is called "Wood in Eternal Ice".

As we all know, the Luxembourg patent system only has two types: invention and design. Whether it is a short-term patent or an invention patent, it does not need to pass substantive examination. For short-term patents, it only takes about 6 months from patent application to final granted. Even It is an invention patent, and the judgment of novelty in the search report will not affect the granted of the invention patent.

Therefore, for the TOP 5 inventions and creations in Luxembourg, is it true that the patent applications corresponding to these creations are also granted very quickly? Interested friends can search for the above technologies, or contact the page code to obtain relevant information.