Produktedetails

Art.Nr:

61944

Autor: / Künstler:

Palmcrantz, Helge

Titel:

Untertitel / Graf. Technik:

Schlagwort:

Militaria-Waffen

Bindung / Bildgrösse:

Bibliotheksband, goldgeprägt.

Verlag:

P. A. Norstedt & Söhne

Ort:

Stockholm

Erscheinungsjahr:

1874

Buchdaten / Blattgrösse:

8°, 84, 2 Falttaf.

Zustand:

Stemp. a Titelbl., Falttaf. wie immer eingerissen, sonst tadell.

Bemerkung:

Text franz. Zehnläufiges Maschinengewehr - Helge Palmcrantz (1842 – 1880), Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Hammerdal, in the province of Jämtland, the son of a captain in the Jämtlands fältjägarregemente. He was enlisted as a cadet in his father's regiment, where he worked on land survey. After a couple of years he left the regiment to study at the Technological Institute of Stockholm (later known as KTH).In partnership with his brother-in-law, Theodor Winborg, Palmcrantz founded a small but growing factory on Kungsholmen, Stockholm, where they manufactured reaping machines, mowers and other agricultural equipment of their own design. In 1873 Palmcrantz patented the multi-barrel, lever-actuated, machine gun that would later be known as the Nordenfelt machine-gun after his financial backer, Thorsten Nordenfelt. Palmcrantz met Nordenfelt in 1875 and the latter's company became his British agent. They agreed to market the machine-gun under the then well known Nordenfelt brand. It was Nordenfelt who convinced Palmcrantz to increase the caliber of his gun to one inch, making it a suitable weapon for use against the growing threat of torpedo boats.