Do you recognise the Nobel Prize-awarded inventor and industrialist with one of his favourite objects; the bicycle?
This photography from 1895 depicts Gustaf Dalén with his bicycle. At the time, the bike was Gustaf Dalén's favourite object. He saw great potential for its technical development and improvement, such as the brake mechanics.
Already at the age of 15, Dalén was so fascinated by the construction of a bicycle that he decided to build his own bike. He built another bike using more advanced technical developments, until he finally bought a factory-made bicycle.
In addition to building bicycles, Nobel Laureate Gustaf Dalén developed a method for emitting short flashes of light, thereby reducing gas consumption for light houses and buoys. He also invented the AGA cooker, a new type of user-friendly stove that was capable of a range of culinary techniques. Gustaf Dalén was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."
Learn more about Gustaf Dalén: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1912/dalen/biographical/
Photo: AGA AB, Lidingö, history archive, photographer unknown. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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