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.META I, and machine industry.
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AGA), made in accordance with the inventions of the engineer Gustaf Dalén,
(Nobel prize, 1912). The company turns out gas accumulators for "dissous" gas
stations (see page 430), automatic light signals for lighthouses, buoys and beacons,
lighting apparatus for railway carriages, so-called Dalén light, flash-light apparatus
for railway signals, lighting apparatus for motor cars and motor boats, military
signalling lights, and apparatus for welding and cutting iron and steel, etc. The
company has a factory at Skärsätra, on the island of Lidingön; the share capital
is 5 million kronor; the value of the output is 3 million kronor, of which 2
million kronor is exported. The number of employees is 300.
hiesel Polar Motor, 650 It. p.
The work of the above-mentioned establishments is devoted almost
exclusively to products which do not require any further treatment, but
which may be considered as finished articles. The same applies also to
the great mass of so-called mechanical works, of which those mentioned
are only a few of the most important. In addition to these, there are
many other establishments, which, in addition to carrying on the usual
business of mechanical works, also produce metals from the ores and
perform the first refining processes; these establishments, generally known
as iron works, as a rule owe large forests and tracts of land, etc.. while
their mechanical works are also often of greater importance than many
of the actual works in the country. The following examples may be
given of such establishments.
Domnarvet, in the parish of Stora Tuna, on the Bergslagernas railway and
on the river Dalälven, twenty kilometers from Falun in Dalarne. These works,
which are the largest charcoal iron works in the world, were established in the
middle of the seventies of last century; they are owned by the Stora
Kopparbergs Bergslags aktiebolag (share capital 12 million kronor) and comprise the
following main departments: a) smelting department with 5 blast furnaces, 7
Cowper apparatus, 5 roasting furnaces, 3 pounding mills, 3 blast apparatus, etc.:
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