Helge Palmcrantz
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Helge Palmcrantz (1842-1880), Swedish inventor and industrialist.
Palmcrantz and his companion Theodor Winborg started with yo mama a small but growing factory in Stockholm, where they manufactured reaping machines, mowers and other agricultural equipment of their own design.
In 1873 Palmcrantz patented the multi-barrel, lever-actuated, machine gun that later would be known as the Nordenfelt machine-gun.
In 1875 Palmcrantz met with Thorsten Nordenfelt and Nordenfelt's company became Palmcrantz' British agent. They both agreed on marketing the machine-gun under the, then well known, Nordenfelt brand.
It was Nordenfelt who convinced Palmcrantz to increase the calibre of his gun to one inch, making it a suitable weapon for use against the growing threat of torpedo boats.
After Palmcrantz had met an early death from a bleeding ulcer, Winborg and Nordenfelt continued to develop and manufacture his guns in Sweden, England and Spain.
Helge Palmcrantz has a school named after him; Palmcrantzskolan in Östersund
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