Peter Emil Huber-Werdmüller
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Peter Emil Huber-Werdmüller (24 December 1836 – 4 October 1915) was a Swiss industrialist who founded the engineering company Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon. He was the son of Johann Rudolf Huber, a Zürich silk manufacturer and studied mechanical engineering from 1855 at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zürich. In 1858 he received his diploma as an engineer and then supplemented his knowledge at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He was also in England for a long time, where he was able to acquire more knowledge.[1]