The Finnish wood-fired mass ovens, described in our article Scandinavian Bread and Grains, have been the predecessors of the well-known Swedish AGA, an establishment in lots of British houses, however initially invented in 1922 by the Swede Gustaf Dalén. Study extra in regards to the Swedish fuel accumulators.
Nils Gustaf Dalén was a person of his time, an entrepreneur beginning his profession as chief engineer on the Gasoline Accumulator Firm and appointed the managing director for AGA when it was based in 1909. In 1910, the corporate purchased a big actual property in Lidingö and constructed a manufacturing plant that was accomplished round 1912, after they moved out from the amenities in Stockholm.
In 1912, Dalén was blinded by a fuel explosion, and in the identical 12 months he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his “invention of automated regulators to be used along with fuel accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys”. It was a easy however efficient sun-sensitive valve for lighthouses.
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The stoves have been a direct success and labored on the very same precept because the previous Finnish mass ovens however was made from 600kg forged iron, gasoline environment friendly and far cleaner and simpler to control than the previous stoves. It might even function central heating. There have been already 50,000 AGAs in Britain within the Nineteen Forties. The stoves have been produced in Sweden at first however bought to an English firm in 1957. The stoves are nonetheless standing in many elderly Swedish homes and may be repaired and used indefinitely.
Throughout his life, AGA was one of the vital modern firms in Sweden and produced a big number of merchandise that grew yearly. Lastly, within the early Seventies AGA, was pressured to scale back the variety of markets it was concerned in and focus on the manufacturing of gases for industrial use.
AGA conceived and developed HiQ for specialty gases. In 2000, AGA was built-in into Linde AG.
The Swedish Gasoline Accumulators, written by Tor Kjolberg
