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vii. manufacturing industries.
Industrial Art Museum belonging to the Society; the arrangement of the
Gustavian Exhibition, 1891, the Metal Exhibition, 1895, the Charles XIY
John Exhibition, 1900, the General Swedish Exhibition of Industrial 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.
0. A. Betulander (b. 1872).
Important inventions for automatic
^telephone-exchange apparatus.
J. A. Brinell (b. 1849). Important
improvements in the technics of testing
materials.
O. 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
railway-signals (sun-valve, Aga-light). Was
awarded the Nobel-prize for physics
in 1912.
C. E. Egnér (1868—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 modern incandescent lighting).
J. G. Gröndal (b. 1859). Important
inventions connected with the
briquet-ting of iron-ore and
briquetting-fur-naces, etc. in the metallurgical branch.
Hon. D. Ph.
G. F. Göransson (1819—1900).
Effected improvements in the
Bessemer-process, which first rendered this
method of practical use.
J. G. Holmström (b. 1874).
Important improvements in telephone-technics
and especially in long distance
telephoning.
C. A. Hult (b. 1867) and O. IV. Hult
(b. 1863). Inventors of an extremely
ingenious friction-gearing mechanism
("eentratorväxeln"), a rotary
steam-engine, etc.
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