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unusual facts about Wilhelm Albert, Duke of Urach



Duke of Urach

Wilhelm was the son of Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg (1761-1830) and his morganatic wife, Baroness (Freiin) Wilhelmine von Tunderfeldt-Rhodis (1777-1822), whom he married at Coswig on 23 August 1800.

Man engine

The first formal engine was installed in 1833 at a mine at Clausthal, Lower Saxony, where inspector Wilhelm Albert and manager Georg Dörell (1793–1854) fastened foot platforms and hand-holds to adjacent, reciprocating pump rods, using a waterwheel-driven pump put out of use when a new drainage adit was made at a lower level.

Wilhelm Albert, Duke of Urach

He married Karen von Brauchitsch, Countess Berghe von Trips (daughter of Konrad von Brauchitsch and wife Mariette Hermans, and adopted by her granduncle Clemens, Count Berghe von Trips), on 1 February 1992 in Rimburg, Germany.


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