Nils Gustaf Dalén

Biography

Stenstorp 1869 – Stockholm 1937

Lived in a farm

Studied on Chalmers University of Technology

Founded AGA in 1909

In 1912 get blinded

In 1912 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

Stenstorp

AGA

Stenstorp

Falköping

Studies

Gustaf De Laval

AGA

Inventions

Milk-fat tester

His own bycicle

Agamassan (Aga)

Sun valve

Aga cooker

Agamassan

Accident of 1912

This year win the Nobel Prize

Testing safety of

acetylene a sudden

explosion

Get injured, and lost

his eyesight

Aga cooker cutaway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06uTCDIvgHs

The Noble Prize

Won in 1912

Because he invented the sun-valve (Dalen Light)

First Lighthouse

Components of the Lighthouse

Dalen Light. Dalen Mixer

Produce a gas mixture

Brighter light

Better fuel economy