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The industrial firm ''Auergesellschaft'' was founded in 1892 with headquarters in Berlin. Up to the end of World War II, ''Auergesellschaft'' had research activities in the areas of gas mantles, luminescence, rare earths, radioactivity, and uranium and thorium compounds. In 1934, the corporation was acquired by the German corporation Degussa. In 1939, their Oranienburg plant began the development of industrial-scale, high-purity uranium oxide production. Special Russian search teams, at the close of World War II, sent ''Auergesellschaft'' equipment, materiel, and staff to the Soviet Union for use in their atomic bomb project. In 1958 ''Auergesellschaft'' merged with the Mine Safety Appliances Corporation, a multinational US corporation; Auergesellschaft became a limited corporation in 1960. ==History== The ''Deutsche Gasglühlicht AG'' (Degea, German Gas Light Company), was founded in 1892 through the combined efforts of the Jewish entrepreneur and banker Geheimrat (Privy Councillor) Leopold Koppel and the Austrian chemist and inventor Carl Auer von Welsbach. It was the forerunner of ''Auergesellschaft''. Their main research activities, up to the close of World War II, were on gas mantles, Luminescence, rare earths, radioactivity, and on uranium and thorium compounds.〔(History of MSA Auer )〕〔Riel and Seitz, 1996, 10.〕〔Hentschel and Hentschel, 1996, Appendix D; see the entry for ''Auergesellschaft''.〕 Geheimrat Koppel, who owned ''Auergesellschaft'', was later intimately involved in the financing of and influencing the direction of scientific entities in Germany. Among them were the ''Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft'' (Kaiser Wilhelm Society) and its research institutes.〔Macrakis, 1993, 18-20 and 22.〕 The Third Reich forced Koppel to sell ''Auergesellschaft'', and it was purchased in 1934 by the German corporation Degussa, a large chemical company with extensive experience in the production of metals.〔〔 By 1901, ''Auergesellschaft'' had their first subsidiaries in Austria, the United States, and England. In 1906, the OSRAM light bulb was developed; its name was formed from the German words ''OSmium'', for the element osmium, and ''WolfRAM'', for the element tungsten. In 1920, Auergesellschaft, Siemens & Halske, and Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) combined their electric lamp production with the formation of the company OSRAM. In 1935, Auergesellschaft developed the luminescent light.〔 Their Oranienburg plant, northeast of Berlin, was constructed in 1926, and their ''Auer-Glaswerke'' was constructed in 1938.〔 In 1958 ''Auergesellschaft'' merged with Mine Safety Appliances Corporation, a US corporation; ''Auergesellschaft'' became a limited corporation in 1960.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Auergesellschaft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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