List of Swedish inventors

Swedish inventors are Swedish people who invented novel ideas, machines or tools.

In the 18th century Sweden's scientific revolution took off. Previously, technical progress had mainly come from professionals who had immigrated from mainland Europe. In 1739, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded, with people such as Carl Linnaeus and Anders Celsius as early members.

Sweden has a total of 33523 patents as of 2007 according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and only ten other countries have more patents than Sweden. Although a lot of patents cannot count as inventions. Therefore, the number of patents per country is a relatively bad scale for measuring inventions that has been of progress to mankind.[1]

The traditional engineering industry is still a major source of Swedish inventions, but pharmaceuticals, electronics and other high-tech industries are gaining ground. A large portion of the Swedish economy is to this day based on the export of technical inventions, and many large multinational corporations from Sweden have their origins in the ingenuity of Swedish inventors.[2]

17th century

18th century

19th century

From the 1870s, engineering companies were created at an unmatched rate and engineers became considered heroes of the age. Many of the companies founded by early pioneers are still internationally familiar.

20th century

21st century

References

  1. Patents By Country, State, and Year - All Patent Types (December 2007)
  2. 1 2 "Swedish inventions and discoveries" (PDF). Fact Sheet FS 91 e. Swedish Institute. January 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-29. Retrieved 2007-10-28.
  3. Halltorps Gastgiveri Description, Halltorps Gasgiveri, Borgholm (2004)
  4. P.O. Nyström, Åminnelse-tal öfver Chefen för Kongl. örlogsflottans Mekaniska Stat, öfverstelöjtnanten och Riddaren av Kongl. Wasa Orden, Herr Jonas Lidströmer, Carlskrona, 1820.
  5. Kip Keen (2004-09-22). "Dim Sun Global dimming? Global warming? What's with the globe, anyway?". Grist Magazine.
  6. Hypertension, Dialysis & Clinical Nephrology (1997). "Nordiska Njurdagar (Nordic Nephrology Days)". Hypertension, Dialysis, and Clinical Nephrology. Retrieved October 3, 2007.
  7. Nils Alwall (1997). "Nils Alwall Lecture". Hypertension, Dialysis, and Clinical Nephrology. Retrieved October 3, 2007.
  8. Arvid Carlsson (2000). "Arvid Carlsson, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved October 3, 2007.
  9. BIOPRO Baden-Württemberg (2006). "Nils Alwall Prize 2006 awarded to scientist at the Medical Hospital in Heidelberg". The Biotech/Life Sciences Portal. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2007.
  10. "About Reverse Vending Machines". Reverse Vending. Retrieved 2014-10-19. The First working Bottle Return Machine was invented and manufactured by "Wicanders" from Sweden used in the late 1950's.
  11. "Hedersdoktor". Chalmers University of Technology. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
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