Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown (17 June 1863 – 2 May 1924) was a Swiss businessman and engineer who co-founded Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC), which later became ABB.
In 1891, Brown co-founded with Walter Boveri the company Brown, Boveri & Cie in Baden, Switzerland.[2] Over the following decade he acquired more than thirty Swiss patents for the company.[2] After the transformation of Brown, Boveri & Cie into a S. A., Brown chaired the board of directors from 1901 until 1911, when he broke with Boveri, left the company and retired to Montagnola in the canton of Ticino.[2] He died in Montagnola on 2 May 1924.[2]
^Heertje, Arnold; Perlman, Mark (1990). Evolving Technology and Market Structure: Studies in Schumpeterian Economics. University of Michigan Press. p. 138. ISBN9780472101924.
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