1800s to 1900s
ABB sets out to create a single Industrial IT architecture for its entire range of technologies and products.
Asea and BBC merge to form one of the world's largest electrical engineering companies.
BBC delivers generators for the world's largest hydroelectric power station at Itaipu in Brazil.
ASEA sells the world's first microprocessor-controlled, all-electric industrial robot.
The first data transmission at carrier frequency is sent by BBC over a 735 kV high-voltage line to a power station control unit.
ASEA installs the world’s first commercial HVDC transmission line, providing 20 MW, 100 kV to the Isle of Gotland over a distance of 96 km.
ASEA is the first company in the world to manufacture synthetic diamonds.
BBC develops the first high-speed locomotive with a direct drive system.
BBC invents a new concept for building turbine rotors.
ASEA builds the world's first self-cooling transformer.
BBC begins manufacturing mercury arc valves and soon advances to become a leading manufacturer of inverters and later power electronics.
BBC builds the first steam turbine in Europe.
ASEA builds the first three-phase transmission system in Sweden.
BBC supplies Europe’s first large-scale combined heat and power plant producing alternating current.
BBC is established by Brown and Boveri, and shortly thereafter it becomes the first company to transmit high-voltage AC power.