Industrial Art Museum belonging to the Society; the arrangement of the
Gustavian Exhibition, 1891, the Metal Exhibition, 1895, the Charles XIV
John Exhibition, 1900, the General Swedish Exhibition of Industriar Art
in Stockholm, 1909, and, now recently, of the Swedish Industrial Art
Association’s great Swedish Industrial Art Lottery, 1911-—13.
14. THE MOST PROMINENT SWEDISH INVENTORS IN
THE DOMAIN OF INDUSTRY.
We shall close this chapter with an enumeration of some of the most
prominent of the great number of .Swedish inventors in the domain of
industry, and of the most important of their inventions.
G. A. Betulander (b. 1812). Important
inventions for automatic telephone-
exchange apparatus.
J. A. Brinell (b. 1849). Im p o r ta n t,
improvements in the technics of testing
materials.
0. E. Carlsund (1809—84). Prominent
constructor and inventor in the
steam-engine industry and in shipbuilding.
J. A. Dahlgren (1810— 70). Constructor
of cannons of large calibre,
called “Dahlgren cannon”.
G. Dalén (b. 1869). Inventor of the
automatic regulator and other devices !
for lighthouses, floating lights, and rail-
way-signals (sun-valve, Aga-light). Was -
awarded the Nobel-prize for physics
in 1912.
C. E. Egnér (1868-7^1914). Important
improvements in telephone-technics in
general, especially in long distance |
telephony.
C. D. Ekman (1845—1904). Inventor
of the sulphite-method, of great
importance in the manufacture of
cellulose.
G. Ekman (1804— 76). Introduced
important improvements in the Swedish
iron-industry.
John Ericsson (1803— 89). Discovered
the practical solution of the screw-
propeller problem; inventor of the steam
fire-engine, the monitor, the hot-air-
engine, etc.
L. M. Ericsson (b. 1846). Important
improvements in the telephone and
its accessories.
O.Fahnehjelm, (1846—1911). Inventor
of the magnesia-comb for incandescent
lights (a fundamental principle
for modem incandescent lighting).
J. G. Grondai (b. 1859). Important
inventions connected with the briquetting
of iron-ore and briquetting-fur-
naces, etc. in the metallurgical branch.
Hon. D. Ph.
G. F. Gôransson (1819—1900). Effected
improvements in the Bessemer-
process, which first rendered this method
of practical use.
J. G. Holmstrôm (b. 1874). Important
improvements in telephone-technics
and especially in long distance telephoning.
G. A. Huit (b. 1867) and O. W. Huit
(b. 1863). Inventors of an extremely
ingenious friction-gearing mechanism
(“centratorvaxeln”), a rotary steam-
[ engine, etc.
E. V. Jungner (b. 1869). Important
improvement in the electric accumulator,
etc.
F. A. Kjellin (1872 -Î910). Important
improvements in electric furnaces
for the production of iron and
steel. Hon. D. Ph.
P. Lagerhjelm (1787— 1856). Constructor
of a machine for testing the
tensile strength of iron and steel, thereby
becoming the founder of the
mechanical testing of materials.
A. Lagerman (1836—1904). Important
inventions in the match industry;
type-setting machine (typotheter).
G. de Laval (1845—1913). A great
number of important inventions in the
dairying industry, such as the separator,
the lactoerite, the emulsor; and in
steam-turbines, etc.
B. Ljungstrom (b. 1872). Inventor
of the “Svea-bicycle” with changeable
gearing and vertical treadling, and also
of important improvements in steam-
turbines, etc.
F. Lundgren (b. 1854). Prominent
inventor of machinery in the match-
industry.
J. E. Lundstrom (1815—88). Important
improvements in the manufacture
of safety matches.
A. Nobel (1.833 96). Inventor of
dynamite and smokeless gunpowder
(Nobel-gunpowder).
I. Nobel (1801—72). Introduced
nitro-glycerine as an explosive (Nobel-:
blasting oil); inventor of the first sub-
marine-mine.
O. R. Nyberg (b. 1853). Inventor
of ingenious apparatus for producing
a high temperature by direct and smokeless
combustion of petroleum (soldering-
lamp, etc.) '
0. G. von Otter (1827—1900). Inventor
of lighthouses with intermittent
signals.
11. Palmcrantz (1842— 80). Constructor
of the machine-gun, afterwards improved
by Maxim and Nordenfeldt, the
latter also a Swede.
G. E. Pasch (1788—1862). Inventor
of the safety-match.
Kr. Pdlhem (1661—1751). A great
number of ingenious inventions in the
mining industry.
S. Rinman (1720—92). Various important
inventions in the same industry.
E. G. N. Salenius (b. 1862). Inventor
of the radiator for making butter from
milk.
A. Stille (1814 93/. Improved surgical
instruments and appliances.
R. V. StreMenert (b 1863). Important
improvments in apparatus and
chemical methods for the production
of artificial silk.
J. G. Swartz (1 8 1 9—85). Inventor
of the so-called ice-method in dairy-
farming.
'A . G. Theorell (1834— 75). Constructor
of a meteorograph, registering
and printing automatically in ordinary
type the indications of the barometer,
of the dry and wet thermometers, of
the anemometer and the anemoscope.
A. Welin (b. 1862). Inventor of an
improved breech-loading mechanism for
ordnance and of important improvements
in boat-davits.
J. Wenstrom (1 8 5 5—93). One of the
founders of the three-phase system (of
great importance for transmission of
electric power).
E. V. Westman (1 8 2 3—91). Constructor
of a roasting-furnace of great
importance in the iron industry.
M. Wiberg (1826— 1905). Machine
for automatically calculating and printing
logarithms.