The decision was made in Zurich by Prince Boun Oum, Premier of the pro-Western royal Government ; ;

Muri Amt was assigned to Zurich, Lucerne, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug and Glarus, while the Ämter of Meienberg, Richensee and Villmergen were first given to Lucerne alone.

This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich.

In the years prior to World War I similar art had already risen in Bucharest and other Eastern European cities ; it is likely that DADA's catalyst was the arrival in Zurich of artists like Tzara and Janco.

Like Zurich, New York City was a refuge for writers and artists from World War I.

The Cummins Common Rail injection system was further developed by the ETH Zurich from 1976 to 1992.

European federalism originated in post-war Europe ; one of the more important initiatives was Winston Churchill's speech in Zurich in 1946.

While there, he was one of eight delegates with a background in guided weapons projects to address the Fourth International Congress of Astronautics in Zurich in August 1953, at a time when, as The New York Times reported, most scientists saw space flight as thinly disguised science fiction.

To assist him in the work he took on several people who were to play important roles in the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower, including Maurice Koechlin, a young graduate of the Zurich Polytechnikum, who was engaged to undertake calculations and make drawings, and Emile Nouguier, who had previously worked for Eiffel on the construction of the Douro bridge.

The cantons responded with an attack at a moment when Zurich was badly prepared.

In addition, his opposition to the French and to mercenary service was welcomed by Zurich politicians.

In August 1519, Zurich was struck by an outbreak of the plague during which at least one in four persons died.

Coincidentally, one of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich.

In cryptography, the International Data Encryption Algorithm ( IDEA ) is a block cipher designed by James Massey of ETH Zurich and Xuejia Lai and was first described in 1991.

The Z4 was delivered to ETH Zurich on 12 July 1950, and proved very reliable.

Capital was raised through ETH Zurich and an IBM option on Zuse's patents.

The Z4 was finished and delivered to the ETH Zurich, Switzerland in September 1950.

The scanning tunneling microscope, an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level, was developed in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, for which they received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.

Later, he was briefed in nuclear physics, provided a Beretta automatic pistol and a cyanide pill ( to kill himself if necessary ), and sent to Zurich, Switzerland posing as a Swiss physics student.

A lecture at the Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich was also interrupted by two groups of protesters.

To propagate the language rapidly, a compiler " porting kit " was created in Zurich that included a compiler that generated code for a " virtual " stack machine, i. e., code that lends itself to reasonably efficient interpretation ), along with an interpreter for that code – the Pascal-P system.

Pascal-P1 was the first version, and Pascal-P4 was the last to come from Zurich.

There was at the time no mission compliant, long range Ambulance ICU Jet anywhere available including, except for one of four Swiss Air Ambulance Challenger Jets, based half way around the globe at the REGA HQ, Zurich International Airport in Switzerland.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

* Honorary Doctor of Technical Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich ( 1991 )

He showed it to the mathematician Eduard Stiefel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ( Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ( ETH ) Zürich ) who ordered one in 1950.

Leading nuclear physicists at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich such as Paul Scherrer made this a realistic possibility, and in 1958 the population clearly voted in favour of the bomb.

But when in 1845 the Radicals regained power at Zurich, which was again the Federal capital for 1845 – 46, Zurich took the lead in opposing the Sonderbund cantons.

Following the Sonderbund war and the formation of the Swiss Federal State, Zurich voted in favour of the Federal constitutions of 1848 and of 1874.

The annual mean temperature at the measuring station of the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology in Zurich (

Image: Bundesschwur Zuerich. jpg | Citizens of Zurich on 1 May 1351 are read the Federal Charter as they swear allegiance to representatives of Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Lucerne.

He was offered a post at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich in 1944 and finally managed to travel there in March 1945.

Showing an intense interest in science as a child, he attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and became a professor of physics in Brussels at the Free University of Brussels in 1922, the same year his son Jacques Piccard was born.

Zurich voters heavily rejected both bans, despite anti-euthanasia lobbying from two Swiss social conservative political parties, the Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland and Federal Democratic Union.

In 1918, Schwyzer troops were called up to join the Federal Army in suppressing striking workers in the Canton of Uri, in Rapperswil and in the Zurich Oberland.

He travelled on the continent, gave conferences in Belgium and in 1856 settled down as professor of French literature at the Federal Polytechnic Institute Zurich, today the ETH Zurich.

The first train running on the account of the Swiss Confederation ran during the night of New Year's Day in 1901 from Zurich via Bern to Geneva, although 1 January 1902 is regarded as the official birth date of Swiss Federal Railways.

He obtained his architect degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.

When the authorities used military force to discontinue the extension of an originally peaceful protest strike in Zurich, on November 10, the committee gave Calonder the ultimatum to either call back the militia or accept the consequences of a nation-wide strike, Calonder declined in the name of the Federal Council, and on November 11, 1918, the committee called for an indefinite strike, now referred to as the Swiss General Strike.

Notably in the fields of bioscience and finance, there is a close-knit collaboration between the University of Zurich and the ETH ( Federal Institute for Technology, just across the road ).

Some of the major universities which have a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) with IIT Roorkee are National University of Singapore ( NUS ), Singapore ; Royal Institute of Technology ( KTH ), Stockholm ; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland ( EPFL ); Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland ( ETH ); Technische Universität München ( TUM ), Germany ; Institut National des Télécommunications, Évry, France ; University of Texas at Dallas, USA ; New Jersey Institute of Technology ( NJIT ) at Newark, USA ; University of Waterloo, Canada ; University of Western Ontario, Canada

The Parallel History Project is based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and is run in partnership with the International Relations and Security Network ( ISN ) and the Center for Security Studies ( CSS ).

These include the ETH Zurich, the EPF Lausanne, the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensdorf, the Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research and the Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology in Dübendorf.