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enterprise also became a benchmark for wind and hydro-power industry, and uninterruptible power systems, after several patents in these technologies; as in the case of the "Hummingbird" or "Colibrí", a permanent magnet generator of 5 and 10 kilowatts (kW), in commerce since 1975. According to various publications, is "the first
Mexican wind turbine, besides being a global pioneer in permanent magnet direct drive generators." By 1980, close to 600 units were exported to the United States and Canada.
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Gottfried, continued to thrive in their operations until 1982, when the initial achievements were threatened by a severe financial crisis in Mexico that affected the industrial sector, which became even more acute with the process of economic aperture in 1988. The company
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In 1968 they produced more power-generating equipment as
Potencia Industrial, S.A., and in the early 70's, his children Mario and Carlos joined the company. Years later, the firm grew from making small motors of 1 to 50 horsepower (HP), to huge industrial motors and generators up to 10,000 HP. The
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manages to survive and in the early nineties continued to push ahead with manufacturing innovations, and celebrating contracts with recognized companies, such as
Electric Products Company of Cleveland, Ohio;
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and, between 1942 and 1943, was continually transferred between the 42 º and 54 º Troop
Carrier Squadrons. Gottfried logged over one thousand hours of flight time during his missions in places like
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Gottfried (son), Mario H. Gottfried, Gustavo Gottfried and Carlos F. Gottfried Gottfried, in front of one of the 6500 HP electric motor, manufactured by Reliance de México, S.A.
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Reliance de Mexico, S.A., under the supervision of the
Reliance Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio. His brother, Gustavo C. Gottfried, also ex-aviator of World War II, joined them.
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Mario H. Gottfried had 4 children. Mario Héctor, María Elena, Carlos
Federico and Martha Cecilia. One of them, Carlos Gottfried Joy, is now president of Potencia Industrial, S.A.
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Institute of Technology in New York, he applied to enter the USA Army Air Corps. Meanwhile, in early 1941, he joined the Army Infantry Center at
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During his early years, Mario Gottfried attended the American School in Mexico City. Later, his father was offered a job in the German
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Electrical Company in the US, and the family moved in 1926 to New York City, where he grew up until the age of twenty-one.
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to American parents, was an electrical engineer who had come to Mexico City in 1910 with the Westinghouse Company from
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with Mario H. Gottfried Gutiérrez, at the inauguration of the new factory, Potencia Industrial, S.A., in 1976.
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Mario H. Gottfried in 1976, besides the "Hummingbird" or "Colibrí", the first Mexican wind turbine.
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Mario Gottfried died in Mexico City on November 2, 1999, at the age of 80, due to a brain tumor.
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Shields, David (August 26, 1999). "El caso de un empresario. Indefensos ante la apertura".
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In 1943 he receives Air medal and Distinguished Flying Cross at the Elmendorf AFB, Alaska.
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Mayer, Christian (January 11, 2014). "Maestra Martha Joy Vda. de Gottfried".
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The ABC of theory and application of polyphase electric motors in industry
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His father, Enrique Guillermo Gottfried Zender, born in
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United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II
709:"Wind Turbine Pioneers Lobbying for Futures Success"
608:. Government of the State of Oaxaca. Archived from
405:"Colibrí, Sistemas eólicos de generación eléctrica"
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691:"Levanta energía en el extranjero"
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689:Valle, Luis (October 18, 2013).
94:Mario Héctor Gottfried Gutiérrez
933:Businesspeople from Mexico City
311:Federal Electricity Commission
98:Air Force of the United States
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953:Recipients of the Air Medal
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219:Distinguished Flying Cross
517:"Mexican-American Review"
284:Placement of a "Colibrí".
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331:Martha Joy Gottfried
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234:Grenada, Mississippi
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157:Fort Shafter, Hawaii
87:Mexican businessman.
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