Large gas engines at Maschinenfabrik Thyssen & Co., Mülheim an der Ruhr, in the central gas plant of the iron and steel works, Duisburg-Meiderich 1912.
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In 1902 August Thyssen founds Aktiengesellschaft für Hüttenbetrieb (stock corporation for iron and steel production) in the then still independent town of [Duisburg-]Meiderich to cover pig iron requirements for his open-hearth steel mills in Mülheim an der Ruhr and [Duisburg-]Hamborn. After closure of the operation in 1985, the blast furnace plant is converted into a landscape park under the IBA Emscherpark project and private initiatives.
