Baltzar von Platen (1898-1984)
Baltzar von Platen (
1898-
1984) together with
Carl Munters was the inventor of the
gas absorption refrigerator in
1922 while they were both
Swedish engineering students at the
Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm,
Sweden. The technique produced "cold" from a heat source such as propane, electricity, or kerosene. In 1923 production by AB Arctic began. In 1925 AB Arctic was purchased by
Electrolux, which began selling them worldwide.
Servel purchased rights to manufacture the refrigerator in
1925 and was the only U.S. manufacturer for many years.
Baltzar von Platen also worked with
ASEA, Sweden's major electrical company, on the development of a process which used heat and pressure to produce
diamonds. Von Platen left the project before it succeeded in producing the first synthetic diamonds in 1953.
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The Gas Model Refrigerator
