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1900
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1908
Dipl. Ing. William Gerb founded in Berlin the company "Gesellschaft
für Isolierung gegen Erschütterungen und Geräusche"
for the business of vibration and noise control
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1911
The 1st
patent - No. 243351 - was granted covering:
"Shockabsorber responding to vertical and horizontal
vibrations based on elastic damping material"
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1913
The 2nd
patent - No. 268564 - was granted covering:
"Vibration damper using coil springs and elastic material
with strong internal friction"
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1938
Patent
No. 659230 - the idea of the Viscodamper - was granted
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1939
Factory located at Wintersteinstr. 7-9, Berlin-Charlottenburg
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1951 / 1952
Technical office in Wiesbaden/Germany was established
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1957
Technical office in Essen/Germany was established
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1966
The company GERB was acquired by a Hamburg-based Import &
Export Trading company - C.G.Helling & Co. - maintaining
the company name GERB |
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1967
1st elastic support of a large size steam turbine (
NPP
Stade )
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1974
Foundation of:
GERB Ingenieurbüro für Maschinenfundamente GmbH
& Co. Planungs KG, Essen, today GERB Engineering GmbH
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1976
Death of William Gerb
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1978
1st direct spring supported forging hammer
Relocation of the company to Roedernallee 174-176, Berlin-Reinickendorf
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1979
Foundation of:
GERB Akustik Consult GmbH, Essen, today BBM GERB Akustik
GmbH
Foundation of:
GERB SA , St. Nazaire and Versailles, France
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1983
Foundation of:
GERB S.A., Madrid, Spain
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1986
1st elastic support of a building on spring elements
- - 2 x 5 story residential and office building at Brunnenstrasse
/ Corner of Ramlerstrasse -Berlin-Wedding - 22.000 kN
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1988
Foundation of:
GERB Vibration Control Systems, Inc. , Chicago, USA
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1989
1st floating trackbed system for a subway in Berlin
- U8 - Station Rathaus Reinickendorf - Tunnel below
residential building
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1990
Foundation of:
GERB do Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Foundation of:
GERB Schwingungsisolatoren GmbH, Coswig/Dresden , Germany
, today GERB Schwingungs- und Schallschutz GmbH
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1991
Foundation of:
Lenvibrober, St. Petersburg, Russia, today SAO GERB
Foundation of:
GERB - Office Prag, Czech Republic, today GERB Praha spol.
sr.o.
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1992
Foundation of:
GERB Vibration Control Systems Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore and New
Delhi, India
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1997
Foundation of:
GERB (Qingdao) Vibration Control Systems Co., Ltd. Qingdao,
China
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1998
1st floating trackbed system for high speed train line,
Chonan Station, South Korea
Foundation of:
GERB Argentina S.A., Cordoba, Argentine
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2000
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2000
Foundation of:
GERB Italia SRL., Milano, Italy
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2004
Transfer of Ownership of GERB Schwingungs- und Schallschutz GmbH, Coswig and BBM GERB Akustik GmbH, Essen/Planegg
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