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  English Gustaf Dalén
Gustaf Dalén also took an active part in trials to develop a safe porous mass for acetylene cylinders.
In one such trial in 1912 a gas cylinder exploded and Gustaf Dalén was seriously injured and blinded for life.
Gustaf Dalén continued to lead AGA until his death in 1937, and participated actively in technical inventions.
www.aga.com /Web/web2000/com/dalen/wpp.nsf/pages/English_gustaf   (146 words)

  
 Chalmers: Gustaf Dalén   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gustaf Dalén was enrolled at Chalmers Higher in September 1892 at the age of 23.
There Gustaf Dalén made his greatest contribution to science: inventions in 1912 for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Gustaf Dalén donated part of his prize to Chalmers to finance a medal which has since been awarded to deserving Chalmers alumni.
www.chalmers.se /en/sections/about_chalmers/history/a_brief_history_of_c/gustaf_dalen   (281 words)

  
 agaHistoryEng_gustavdalen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gustaf Dalén was born and raised on a farm in Stenstorp, located in the Swedish province of Västergötland.
Gustaf Dalén was an incurable optimist who could meet many setbacks without losing faith.
AGA’s founding father, Gustaf Dalén, was born in 1869 on the Skräddargården farm in Stenstorp in the province of Västergötland in southern Sweden.
www.aga.se /web/web2000/se/wpp.nsf/pages/agaHistoryEng_gustavdalen   (770 words)

  
 The Aga Cooker
Gustaf Dalen had a gift for mechanics, and was admitted to the Chalmers Institute in Gothenburg in 1892 at the age of 23.
The Dalen Mixer was a 'sun-valve' which improved the light emission from lighthouse lamps and caused them to switch on and off automatically at dusk and dawn.
In the same year, Dalen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his gas regulator controlled sea-buoys.
www.patricktaylor.com /aga-cooker   (1103 words)

  
 History - Gustaf Dalén
Gustaf Dalén was AGA's most influential president and the inventor of epoch-making lighthouse technology products including the flashing apparatus, the sun valve, the AGA compound and the Dalén mixer.
Gustaf Dalén was one of Sweden’s most important Nobel prizewinners and the only one to create an entire industrial group.
Gustaf Dalén who was himself passionately interested in aviation became a partner in Enoch Thulin's aircraft factory in Landskrona during World War I. But the market disappeared after the war and the factory was closed down after Thulin had crashed.
www.aga.com /web/web2000/com/WPPcom.nsf/pages/History_GustafDalen   (1328 words)

  
 Gustaf Dalen Cooker -Reviews, Article And Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
While Nobel Prize winning Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalen was recuperating at castings for the cooker that Dalen named the AGA were An exciting new store has opened up in Drummoyne of late to showcase the Aga cooker a masterful cooking instrument surrounded by its own traditions.
Dr. Dalen The AGA cooker is a stored heat cooker invented in by Swedish physicist Dr. Gustaf Dal n who also founded the AGA company.
Gustaf Dal n was AGA's most influential president and the inventor of epoch making lighthouse technology products including the flashing apparatus the sun valve the AGA compound and the Dal n mixer.
www.guruisonline.info /Cooker/Gustaf-Dalen-Cooker.php   (458 words)

  
 Aga Inventor Gustaf Dalén | Spillers of Chard | Who Are We?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Spillers of Chard - 01460 67878 - Aga Inventor Gustaf Dalén
Gustaf Dalén was an extraordinary man whose invention of the sun-valve, enabled gas beacons, such as those in lighthouses, to light automatically at dusk and extinguish itself at dawn.
In 1912, Dalén was blinded in a gas explosion, but was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
www.cookercentre.com /spillers_3.html   (238 words)

  
 (GCPCZN) Gustaf Dalén by Asp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gustaf Dalén (1869-1937) är ett stort namn i svensk teknikhistoria.
Gustaf Dalén (1869-1937) is a famous person in Swedish engineering history.
In a gas explosion 1912 Gustaf Dahlén become blind, the same year he got the Nobel price in physics.
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 Gustaf Dalén - Biography
Nils Gustaf Dalén was born at Stenstorp in Skaraborg, Sweden on November 30, 1869, the son of a farmer.
After his preliminary education, he entered a School of Agriculture to study dairy farming but he was later advised by Gustaf de Laval, who recognized his natural gift for mechanics, to seek a technical education.
Their eldest son, Gunnar, qualified as an engineer and followed his father as a Director of AGA; their younger son, Anders, became a Doctor of Medicine; Gustaf's brother Albin, a famous ophthalmologist, was a Professor at the Caroline Institute.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1912/dalen-bio.html   (650 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Nils Dalen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Later that year he is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention of automatic valves for lighthouses.
Dalen is unable to personally to collect his diploma from the Swedish Royal Academy of Science.
Click to find more people named Nils Dalen...
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Dalen_Nils_389261253.htm   (117 words)

  
 Lighthouses@Lighthouse Digest ... Famous People in Lighthouse History - Gustaf Dalen
Born in 1860 at Stenstorp Sweden, Physicist received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 for his invention of automatic regulators combined with gas accumulators for the illumination of lighthouses and buoys.
The Dalen Museum, which honors his work and inventions is today housed in a building that was a former courthouse in Stenstorp, in the province of Vastergotland in Sweden.
The museum, which opened in 1996, is open to the public.
www.lhdigest.com /Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=1265   (302 words)

  
 Nils Gustaf Dalen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It rapidly came into worldwide use for buoys and unmanned lighthouses.
In 1906 Dalen became chief engineer of the Gas Accumulator Company, which marketed acetylene gas.
He became managing director of the company in 1909 and then invented Agamassan, a substance that absorbs acetylene, making it possible to concentrate the gas with no danger of explosion.
physics.nobel.brainparad.com /nils_gustaf_dalen.html   (160 words)

  
 The Sea Chest Nautical Bookshop 3147 Gustaf Dalen to Nynashamn including Outer Approaches to Sodertalje   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Sea Chest Nautical Bookshop 3147 Gustaf Dalen to Nynashamn including Outer Approaches to Sodertalje
3147 Gustaf Dalen to Nynashamn including Outer Approaches to Sodertalje
Scale 1:50000 Gustaf Dalen to Nynashamn including Outer Approaches to Sodertalje. Standard Admiralty Charts are corrected in stock on a daily basis until despatched.
www.seachest.co.uk /acatalog/info_6719.html   (49 words)

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