Helge Palmcrantz

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Grave stone of Helge Palmcrantz on the Norra begravningsplatsen , the cemetery of the Norra Kapellet in Solna , Stockholm County .

Carl Julius Helge Palmcrantz (born July 7, 1842 in Hammerdal , † November 22, 1880 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish inventor , weapons technician and entrepreneur .

Life

Together with his stepbrother Theodor Winbor, he founded a company in Kungsholmen , Stockholm . He studied at the Royal Technical University . In 1873 he succeeded in inventing the Nordenfelt mitrailleuse , which was named after his financial sponsor Thorsten Nordenfelt .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patent 2309 . In: The Commissioners of patents' journal ( English ). Great Britain. Patent Office, 1876, p. 2153.
  2. ^ Anthony Smith: Machine Gun: The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War ( English ). Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 978-0-312-93477-4 , p. 69.