inventor, manufacturer, b. Helsinki, Finland. He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Helsinki (1878). In 1880 he migrated to the U.S. and to Milwaukee, and in 1889 founded the Nordberg Manufacturing Co. to manufacture an automatic governor, for which he held the patent. The company soon expanded into the manufacture of valve engines, pumps, hoists, compressors, and similar equipment. Nordberg was vice-president, designer, and draftsman for the company (1890-1912), its president (1912-1924), and chairman of the board at his death in 1924. He held 58 patents on various machines and devices, was a member of numerous engineering societies, and was the author of several papers on engineering subjects. His son, BRUNO VICTOR EDWARD NORDBERG, b. Milwaukee, graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin (B.S. in M.E., 1907), and from 1910 until his death in 1946 he was associated with the Nordberg Manufacturing Co. He was executive engineer for the company (1922-1946), and was widely known in the engineering profession for his improvements on the Diesel engine. F. L. Holmes, et al., eds., Wis. (5 vols., Chicago, 1946); J. G. Gregory, Hist. of Milwaukee (4 vols., Chicago, 1931); Milwaukee Journal, Oct. 30, 1924, Aug. 20, 1946.Learn More
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