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Around 1900 a lot of small private observatories popped up in the landscape. Before then only states, and universities, had the money to build them, and search the skies. Europe Denmark Victor Nielsens Private Observatory Victor Nielsen built his own private Observatory in the middle of Copenhagen, and let the public view the stars.
H. Jørgensens Kemiske Fabriker (H. Jørgensen’s Chemical Factories) was a chemical factory in Copenhagen Denmark. In 1928 it was owned by H. Jørgensen, and based at Vesterbrogade 57 in Copenhagen THey produced Amyl Acetate, Amyl Alcohol, Ferrum Reductum, Hiozin Nursery Powder, Ethyl Chloride etc. Known products Hiozin was a children’s powder
Manufacturing companies have manufactured anything from toys to space rockets, spoons to suspension bridges. Denmark Dansk Aluminium Industi Illinois, USA Bates & Rogers Manufacturing Co. Bates & Rogers Manufacturing Co. built a series of railway bridges and tunnels. Indiana, USA Deterling Manufacturing Company Deterling Manufacturing Company built “Talking machines” in Indiana.
Lars Magnus Ericsson started the LM Ericsson telephone factory in 1876. The company started out repairing telegraph equipment and other manufacturers telephones, but already in 1878 Ericsson began producing and selling his own telephone equipment. Ericophon In 1954 Ericsson designed the Ericophon (also colled “The Cobra”) that was produced in millions of examples in a […]
Radio and Television manufacturers have built their products in almost every country. Europe Denmark Bang & Olufsen Bravour Bravour was a Danish radio factory based in Copenhagen England EKCO Eric Kirkham Cole established ECKO Ltd in 1924. Pye Pye LTD was established in 1896
As soon as Graham Bell ended his first telephone call, companies began erecting telephone poles, and starting connecting cities, nations and continents with copper wire. Europe Denmark Fyns Kommunale Telefonselskab Kjøbenhavns Telefon Aktieselskab
The concept of adding suction to a floorsweeper revolutionised the cleaning appliance industry in the second half of the 1800’s. In the beginning these modern wonders were only available for the wealthy, but as the price gradually dropped, they were adopted into more and more households. In the early 1900’s companies toured the towns with […]
Before computers took over, there was a typewriter on almost every desk, and hundreds of thousands of typewriters were built and sold every year. Adler Adler built it’s first typewriters in 1898, and continued production until the business closed in 1995. Brother IBM IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) started building electric typewriters in the 1930’s, […]
You are probably reading this article on a smartphone, without thinking about it, as all other technology has an expiry date, where it no longer can be used. Even though the hardware might still work, one day it will fall silent. The first step will be when the operating system no longer will be supported […]
George Eastman started what would become Kodak, by manufacturing dry plates for photography in Rochester, New York in 1880. Eastman founded the “Eastman Dry Plate Company” on January 1st 1881, together with his partner, Henry A. Strong. This company was renamed The Eastman Kodak Company on the 23rd of may 1892. Cameras The Brownie camera […]
