Carl Munters

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Carl Georg Munters
Dala-Järna
, Kopparbergs län, Sweden
Died1989
Sweden

Carl Georg Munters (22 March 1897 – 1989) was a Swedish inventor, most known for inventing together with

gas absorption refrigerator now sold by Electrolux. He also invented and patented a method of making foamed plastic, which was later rediscovered by Dow Chemical Company and used to make Styrofoam.[1]

Personal life

He was born in

KTH
in 1922. Munters married Anna Eugenia Geralf in 1925 and Marianne Warkander in 1951.

Refrigerators

Together with Baltzar von Platen and

Royal Institute of Technology where they were students. It took them about a year to create a first prototype that worked with self-circulation. The prototype still had one moving part, a ball valve, and was big and clumsy. Eventually the design was improved and their cooling solution was a world sensation.[citation needed] Albert Einstein once mentioned how astonished he was by their ingenious solution.[citation needed
]

Manufacturing of the refrigerator commenced in 1923 by the company AB Arctic. In 1925, development was finished, and the company was bought by Electrolux.

Other inventions

After inventing

Dow
in 1940s, he started his own company in 1955 and developed, among other things, new insulation materials, air conditioners and dehumidification devices. At his death, Munters had over a thousand patents.

Patents

References

  1. ^ Boundy & Amos 1990, pp. 117–128.
  2. ^ Zook 2007.
  3. ^ GB 406267A 
  • Boundy, Ray H.; Amos, J. Lawrence (1990). A History of the Dow Chemical Physics Lab: the freedom to be creative. M. Dekker. .
  • Zook, C (2007). "Finding Your Next Core Business" (PDF). Harvard Business Review. 85 (4): 66–75, 140.
    PMID 17432154
    .

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