Background
He was enlisted as a cadet in his father"s regiment, where he worked on land survey.
He was enlisted as a cadet in his father"s regiment, where he worked on land survey.
Royal Institute of Technology.
After a couple of years he left the regiment to study at the Technological Institute of Stockholm (later known as Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan). In partnership with his brother-in-law, Theodor Winborg, Palmcrantz founded a small but growing factory on Kungsholmen, Stockholm, where they manufactured reaping machines, mowers and other agricultural equipment of their own design. In 1873 Palmcrantz patented the multi-barrel, lever-actuated, machine gun that would later be known as the Nordenfelt machine-gun after his financial backer, Thorsten Nordenfelt.
Palmcrantz met Nordenfelt in 1875 and the latter"s company became his British agent.
They agreed to market the machine-gun under the then well known Nordenfelt brand. lieutenant was Nordenfelt who convinced Palmcrantz to increase the caliber of his gun to one inch, making it a suitable weapon for use against the growing threat of torpedo boats.
After Palmcrantz succumbed to an early death from a bleeding ulcer, Winborg and Nordenfelt continued to develop and manufacture his guns in Sweden, England and Spain. Helge Palmcrantz has a school named after him.
Palmcrantzskolan in Östersund.
