• Thumbnail for Thorsten Nordenfelt
    Thorsten Nordenfelt (1 March 1842 – 8 February 1920), was a Swedish inventor and industrialist. Nordenfelt was born in Örby outside Kinna, Sweden, the...
    6 KB (660 words) - 06:42, 26 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nordenfelt gun
    (later weapons maker) named Thorsten Nordenfelt, who was working in London. The name of the weapon was changed to the Nordenfelt gun. A plant producing the...
    10 KB (911 words) - 05:11, 12 March 2024
  • Thorsten Guttormsen Fretheim (1808–1874), Norwegian politician Thorsten Nordenfelt (1842–1920), Swedish inventor and industrialist Thorstein Veblen...
    7 KB (816 words) - 10:28, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nordenfelt v Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co Ltd
    illegality. Thorsten Nordenfelt, a manufacturer specialising in armaments, had sold his business to Hiram Stevens Maxim. They had agreed that Nordenfelt ‘would...
    19 KB (3,125 words) - 16:02, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company
    The Maxim-Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company was the result of a takeover by Hiram Maxim of Thorsten Nordenfelt's Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company...
    5 KB (442 words) - 22:54, 7 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Basil Zaharoff
    Vickers, Thorsten Nordenfelt merged with Maxim's in 1888 to form the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company. Two years later, a bankrupt Nordenfelt was...
    34 KB (4,208 words) - 19:48, 22 May 2024
  • and was slow to operate. While working as a weapons designer for Thorsten Nordenfelt in London, Axel Welin solved this problem in 1889–1890 with his stepped...
    16 KB (2,146 words) - 18:07, 14 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Axel Welin
    1884. Between 1886 and 1888, Welin worked as a weapons designer for Thorsten Nordenfelt in London. In 1889 he started his own engineering firm, the Welin...
    2 KB (199 words) - 10:28, 19 September 2023
  • Newton's Cradle – Isaac Newton Nissen hut – Peter Norman Nissen Nordenfelt gun – Thorsten Nordenfelt Northrop Loom – James Henry Northrop Odhner Arithmometer...
    24 KB (1,828 words) - 16:42, 16 November 2023
  • inventor and curate, George Garrett, and his industrialist financier Thorsten Nordenfelt, and the Irish inventor John Philip Holland. In 1878, Garrett built...
    96 KB (12,754 words) - 14:28, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 75 mm Field Gun M1897 on M2 Carriage
    1897 was a revolutionary breech-loading artillery piece that combined a Nordenfelt eccentric screw breech, fixed "quickfire" ammunition, and a hydro-pneumatic...
    17 KB (1,831 words) - 23:39, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Submarine
    industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt led to the first practical steam-powered submarines, armed with torpedoes and ready for military use. The first was Nordenfelt I...
    131 KB (15,450 words) - 02:40, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Canon de 75 modèle 1897
    Major Louis Baquet. A rotating screw breech built under license from Thorsten Nordenfelt. The only major design difference between the 57 and 75 that would...
    43 KB (5,550 words) - 17:22, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Garrett (inventor)
    Portsmouth for the Royal Navy, it impressed the Swedish industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt sufficiently to finance him. Together, they built a submarine for...
    5 KB (557 words) - 00:26, 5 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for 1880s
    1885–1887: Thorsten Nordenfelt of Örby, Uppsala Municipality, Sweden produces a series of steam powered submarines. The first was the Nordenfelt I, a 56...
    60 KB (6,974 words) - 16:54, 9 June 2024
  • Thorsten Nordenfelt, particularly his move from Sweden to England, his investment in British railway technology and the development of the Nordenfelt...
    13 KB (1,968 words) - 04:58, 28 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ottoman submarine Abdül Hamid
    powered boats, designed by Swedish industrialist and arms dealer Thorsten Nordenfelt. These were ultimately sold to the Ottoman Empire and Russia. The...
    7 KB (719 words) - 00:24, 22 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Holland Torpedo Boat Company
    had bid on the Navy submarine contracts including: George Baker, Thorsten Nordenfelt and Josiah Tuck. With the loss of Fenian Brotherhood funding, Holland...
    29 KB (3,064 words) - 17:10, 5 March 2024
  • submarine designs. Plans were submitted by Baker, John Philip Holland, Thorsten Nordenfelt and Josiah Tuck. Holland won the competition, but due to irregularities...
    3 KB (258 words) - 01:52, 27 May 2024
  • Philip Holland 1881 Nov 1883 Stolen and sunk in Hudson river. Nordenfelt I Thorsten Nordenfelt 1885 1901 Sold to the Hellenic Navy and named Pireas, proved...
    9 KB (77 words) - 06:51, 29 February 2024
  • with a number of other inventors, including John Philip Holland, Thorsten Nordenfelt and George C. Baker. Holland won the competition, but due to irregularities...
    2 KB (190 words) - 20:51, 10 December 2022
  • attack, during the First Balkan War Gryparis Nordenfelt I – The first submarine designed by Thorsten Nordenfelt. It was a 56-tonne, 19.5-metre-long vessel...
    41 KB (4,580 words) - 08:01, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Helge Palmcrantz
    Fair. To reach international success, Palmcrantz met industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt (1842–1920) in 1875 and the latter's company became his British agent...
    5 KB (441 words) - 07:26, 26 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Eastern Hunter-Gatherer
    Nick; Rohland, Nadin; Mallick, Swapan; Llamas, Bastien; Brandt, Guido; Nordenfelt, Susanne; Harney, Eadaoin; Stewardson, Kristin; Fu, Qiaomei (June 1, 2015)...
    45 KB (4,349 words) - 23:51, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Norrland Artillery Regiment
    Hofstedt 1913–1916: Colonel Arvid Edmund Rudling 1916–1922: Colonel Hugo Nordenfelt 1922–1927: Colonel Johan Georg Sylvan 1927–1934: Colonel Georg Ohlson...
    12 KB (829 words) - 07:23, 26 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Western Hunter-Gatherer
    Nick; Rohland, Nadin; Mallick, Swapan; Llamas, Bastien; Brandt, Guido; Nordenfelt, Susanne; Harney, Eadaoin; Stewardson, Kristin; Fu, Qiaomei; Mittnik,...
    50 KB (5,725 words) - 06:50, 7 June 2024
  • County Carl Nordenfelt   independent 1885–1892 Värmland County Enar Nordenfelt   independent 1867–1868 Blekinge County Leonard Nordenfelt   independent...
    355 KB (44 words) - 09:28, 22 May 2024