Thorsten Nordenfelt (1 March 1842 – 8 February 1920), was a Swedish inventor and industrialist. Nordenfelt was born in Örby outside Kinna, Sweden, the...
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(later weapons maker) named Thorsten Nordenfelt, who was working in London. The name of the weapon was changed to the Nordenfelt gun. A plant producing the...
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Thorsten Guttormsen Fretheim (1808–1874), Norwegian politician Thorsten Nordenfelt (1842–1920), Swedish inventor and industrialist Thorstein Veblen...
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The Maxim-Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company was the result of a takeover by Hiram Maxim of Thorsten Nordenfelt's Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company...
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illegality. Thorsten Nordenfelt, a manufacturer specialising in armaments, had sold his business to Hiram Stevens Maxim. They had agreed that Nordenfelt ‘would...
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Vickers, Thorsten Nordenfelt merged with Maxim's in 1888 to form the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company. Two years later, a bankrupt Nordenfelt was...
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Newton's Cradle – Isaac Newton Nissen hut – Peter Norman Nissen Nordenfelt gun – Thorsten Nordenfelt Northrop Loom – James Henry Northrop Odhner Arithmometer...
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and was slow to operate. While working as a weapons designer for Thorsten Nordenfelt in London, Axel Welin solved this problem in 1889–1890 with his stepped...
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1897 was a revolutionary breech-loading artillery piece that combined a Nordenfelt eccentric screw breech, fixed "quickfire" ammunition, and a hydro-pneumatic...
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1884. Between 1886 and 1888, Welin worked as a weapons designer for Thorsten Nordenfelt in London. In 1889 he started his own engineering firm, the Welin...
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Thorsten Nordenfelt, particularly his move from Sweden to England, his investment in British railway technology and the development of the Nordenfelt...
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powered boats, designed by Swedish industrialist and arms dealer Thorsten Nordenfelt. These were ultimately sold to the Ottoman Empire and Russia. The...
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inventor and curate, George Garrett, and his industrialist financier Thorsten Nordenfelt, and the Irish inventor John Philip Holland. In 1878, Garrett built...
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industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt led to the first practical steam-powered submarines, armed with torpedoes and ready for military use. The first was Nordenfelt I...
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Major Louis Baquet. A rotating screw breech built under license from Thorsten Nordenfelt. The only major design difference between the 57 and 75 that would...
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had bid on the Navy submarine contracts including: George Baker, Thorsten Nordenfelt and Josiah Tuck. With the loss of Fenian Brotherhood funding, Holland...
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Portsmouth for the Royal Navy, it impressed the Swedish industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt sufficiently to finance him. Together, they built a submarine for...
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1885–1887: Thorsten Nordenfelt of Örby, Uppsala Municipality, Sweden produces a series of steam powered submarines. The first was the Nordenfelt I, a 56...
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Philip Holland 1881 Nov 1883 Stolen and sunk in Hudson river. Nordenfelt I Thorsten Nordenfelt 1885 1901 Sold to the Hellenic Navy and named Pireas, proved...
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submarine designs. Plans were submitted by Baker, John Philip Holland, Thorsten Nordenfelt and Josiah Tuck. Holland won the competition, but due to irregularities...
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attack, during the First Balkan War Gryparis Nordenfelt I – The first submarine designed by Thorsten Nordenfelt. It was a 56-tonne, 19.5-metre-long vessel...
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with a number of other inventors, including John Philip Holland, Thorsten Nordenfelt and George C. Baker. Holland won the competition, but due to irregularities...
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Fair. To reach international success, Palmcrantz met industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt (1842–1920) in 1875 and the latter's company became his British agent...
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Nick; Rohland, Nadin; Mallick, Swapan; Llamas, Bastien; Brandt, Guido; Nordenfelt, Susanne; Harney, Eadaoin; Stewardson, Kristin; Fu, Qiaomei (June 1, 2015)...
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Hofstedt 1913–1916: Colonel Arvid Edmund Rudling 1916–1922: Colonel Hugo Nordenfelt 1922–1927: Colonel Johan Georg Sylvan 1927–1934: Colonel Georg Ohlson...
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Nick; Rohland, Nadin; Mallick, Swapan; Llamas, Bastien; Brandt, Guido; Nordenfelt, Susanne; Harney, Eadaoin; Stewardson, Kristin; Fu, Qiaomei; Mittnik,...
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County Carl Nordenfelt independent 1885–1892 Värmland County Enar Nordenfelt independent 1867–1868 Blekinge County Leonard Nordenfelt independent...
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