The legacy

A total of eight institutes of today's Universität Stuttgart have their roots in the Materials Testing Institute and the Engineering Laboratory:

• Civil Engineering Research and Materials Testing Institute
• Thermal Turbomachinery and Machinery Laboratory
• Elements of Machinery
• Machine Construction and Transmission Engineering
• Combustion Engines and Automative Engineering
• Forming Technology
• Plastics Testing and Plastics Science
• Propulsion Systems

The university archives of the Technical University of Chemnitz contain Carl Bach's extensive and wide-ranging legacy. It contains about 20 metres of archived material and is composed of biographical material, scientific papers, the manuscripts of various editions of his major works, and Bach's business and private correspondence.