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    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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  • Moland (born 1945), Norwegian economist Thorsten Nordenfelt (1842–1920), Swedish inventor and industrialist Thorsten J. Pattberg (born 1977), German philologist...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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