Johann Brotan (24 June 1843 – 20 November 1918) was an

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, specialising in locomotive construction.Kirsche (1978), p. 144.

Biography

Johann Brotan was born in Klattau, now

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in the

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. He studied at the Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute (''k. k. Polytechnisches Institut'') in

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. He worked for the state telegraph construction department, for Theis Railway Company, the Hungarian Eastern Railway and the Lemberg-Czernowitz-Jassy Railway before joining the

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(''kaiserlich-königliche österreichische Staatsbahnen'' or ''k.k.St.B.'') in 1890. In 1902 he became the executive of the ''k.k.St.B.'' workshop at Gmünd, later the repair shop at Vienna's '' Westbahnhof''. He retired in 1912 and, according to one source, :de:Johann Brotan died in Vienna on 20 November 1918. According to other sources,Ransome-Wallis (1959), p 497. he is believed to have died in 1923, but trace of him was lost in the disorganisation following the

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. He is known for his invention of the most successful semi water-tube locomotive boiler, known as the Brotan boiler, first fitted in 1902.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brotan, Johann 1843 births 1918 deaths People from Klatovy Austrian railway pioneers Austrian railway mechanical engineers Austrian people of German Bohemian descent

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