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THE HOST PROMINENT
SWEDISH INVENTORS.
909
Kr. Polhem (1661/1751). A great
number of ingenious inventions with
regard to the mining industry.
S. Rinman (1720/92). Several
important inventions with regard to the
same industry.
E. G. N. Salenius (born 1862).
Inventor of the radiator.
A. Stille (1814/93). Improved
surgical instruments and appliances.
R. V. Strehlenert (born 1863).
Important improvements of instruments
and chemical methods for the production
of artificial silk.
J. G. Swartz (1819/85). Inventor
of the so-called ice-method in dairying.
A. G. Theorell (1834/75).
Constructor of a meteorograph, registering
and printing automatically in
common type the indications of the
barometer, of the dry and humid thermo-
meters, of the anemometer and the
anemoscope.
A. Welin (born 1862). Inventor of
an improved mechanism for
breech-loading of cannons, etc.
J. Wenström (1855/93). One of
the founders of the three-phase system
(of great importance to the transferring
of electrical power).
E. V. Westman (1823/91).
Constructor of a roasting-furnace, important
to the iron industry.
M. Wiberg (born 1826).
Mechanism for automatically calculating and
printing logarithms.
J. G. Wiborgh (1839/1903).
Metallurgical inventions; moreover, Wiborgh
phosphate.
J. G. V. Zander (born 1835).
Founder of the medico-mechanical
gymnastics, and constructor of accessory
instruments and appliances.
Mausoleum of John Ericsson, at Filipstad.
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