• DocumentCode
    111575
  • Title

    Nils Gustaf Dalén [Scanning Out Past]

  • Author

    Reif-Acherman, Simon

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Chem. Eng., Univ. del Valle, Cali, Colombia
  • Volume
    102
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1389
  • Lastpage
    1393
  • Abstract
    In 1912, the Swedish engineer Nils Gustaf Dalén was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys. The history of his inventiveness and scientific achievements has been unjustly ignored, historically speaking, being closely intertwined with that of AGA, the company that he helped establish, and of which he was president for nearly three decades.
  • Keywords
    biographies; Nils Gustaf Dalen; Nobel Prize; Physics; automatic regulators; buoys; gas accumulators; history; lighthouses; scientific achievements; Biographies; Dalen, Nils Gustaf; History; Illumination; Lighting; Biographies; control equipment; history; lighting control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JPROC.2014.2320276
  • Filename
    6813602
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=111575