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AN interesting ceremony was performed on behalf of the Swedish Cellulose Association by Consul T. Lundgren on October 19, when he unveiled a memorial to Carl Daniel Ekman, the inventor of the sulphite wood-pulp process, at Northfleet Cemetery. In the addresses by Baron Palmstierna and others at the dinner afterwards given by the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in London and the Society of Swedish Engineers in Great Britain, great emphasis was laid on the strengthening of Anglo-Swedish relations by mutual exchange of experience in science and techno logy. Sweden owes much to the many English pioneers who settled in Gothenburg during the last century and organised railways, exploited iron ore deposits and developed industrial life generally in the west of Sweden, but the debt has, however, been amply repaid by the work in England of many Swedes. The current issue of the Yearbook of the Society of Swedish Engineers deals with the work of some of these, such as Alfred Nobel, John Ericsson (1803-89) the inventor of the marine propeller and the first steam fire-engine, Nordenfelt (1843-1920) the gun and submarine designer, Sandberg (1832â 1913) of steel-rail fame, and Ekman (1847-1904).
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Memorial to Carl Daniel Ekman. Nature 134, 655 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134655a0
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