Died 1937-12-09.
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Nils Gustaf Dalén
Nils Gustaf Dalén was a Swedish engineer and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."
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business · Swedish engineer and inventor (1869–1937) · physicist · engineer · inventor · entrepreneur · business executive · chemist · industrialist · also Nils Gustaf Dalén, Gustaf Dalén, Nils Dalén, Gustaf Dalen, Nils Dalen, Dalén
Born 30 November 1869 · Died 9 December 1937 · Q160518
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1922· 1 entry
Dalén patented his invention of the AGA cooker
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1912· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1912).
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Early in 1912, Dalén was blinded in an acetylene explosion during a test of maximum pressure for the accumulators
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"for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys
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1910· 1 entry
The company bought a large real estate in Lidingö and built a production plant that was completed around 1912, when they moved out from the facilities in Stockholm
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1909· 1 entry
Dalén ascended to the position of managing director of the renamed company Svenska Aktiebolaget Gasaccumulator (AGA)
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1906· 1 entry
Dalén became chief engineer at the Gas Accumulator Company (manufacturer and distributor of acetylene) and in 1909 when AGA was founded, he was appointed the managing director for the company
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1892· 1 entry
Invented a milk-fat tester to check milk quality of the milk delivered and went to Stockholm to show his new invention for Gustaf de Laval
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1869· 1 entry
Born 1869-11-30.
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