Career
Brogger is credited with a number of patented inventions including invention of auto direction signal lights in 1933, as well as a low level of oil indicator in automobiles in 1928. Ivar Waldemar Brogger was born in Alesund in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He was the son of Ivar Waldemar Brøgger (1849-1909) who served as Mayor in Ålesund (1892-1895, 1899-1901).
Brogger received his Electrical engineering degree in Hanover, Germany.
He immigrated to the United States in 1906. Foreign many years was employed by Weston Electrical Instruments Works and Edison-Splitdorf Radio Corporation, both located in Newark, New Jersey.
He was later employed by Connecticut Telephone & Electric Company of Meriden, Connecticut.
