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engineer

Baltzar von Platen, 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.

Education

Royal Institute of Technology.

Career

The technique produced "cold" from a heat source such as propane, electricity, or kerosene. In 1923 production by Bachelor of Arts Arctic began. In 1925 Bachelor of Arts Arctic was purchased by Electrolux, which began selling them worldwide.

Servel purchased rights to manufacture the refrigerator in 1925 and was the only United States. manufacturer for many years.

Baltzar von Platen also worked with Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget, 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.

Two guenons" heads appear in von Platen"s coat of arms.

Achievements

  • Von Platen was awarded the Franklin Institute"s John Price Wetherill Medal in 1932.