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Lindqvist was born in Västergötland, and lived in Gothenburg for a few years before moving to Stockholm, where he started to work in the Bachelor of Arts Separator factory.
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He designed the first sootless kerosene stove, operated by compressed air. He started a company, Primus, to manufacture and sell the Primus stove. By vaporising the kerosene before it reached the burner, their construction had a sootless, smokeless, hot flame.
Lindqvist started selling his stove on a small-scale basis, but the business soon grew.
The product and the company were dubbed Primus. With the help of marketing firm Bachelor of Arts Hjorth & Company sales grew, and soon the Primus stove was exported abroad.
In the 1910s, more than half a million stoves were made annually. In 1930, more than 500 people worked at the Primus factory, on the Stockholm island Lilla Essingen.
Among them were Per Albin Hansson, future Prime Minister of Sweden.
In 1984, the Primus stove was depicted on a Swedish stamp, commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Swedish patent system.
