Lars Magnus Ericsson

Lars Magnus Ericsson ( pronunciation: [ ˌ lɑ ː ʂ ˌ MAN ː nɵs e ː ɹiksɔn ], born May 5, 1846 in Värmskog, (Värmland ), † December 17, 1926 in Botkyrka (Stockholms län) ) was a Swedish inventor and founded in 1876 the company Ericsson. He was the son of Erik Eriksson (1804-1859) from Vegerbol, Värmskog and Maria Jonsdotter (1810-1859) from Mosterud, Stavnäs.

Life

Ericsson grew up in the small town of Karlstad and Arvika Vegerbol in between. When he was 11 years old, his father died, and Ericsson was forced to work. He worked as a railway and mine workers both in Sweden and in Norway. In 1867 he moved to Stockholm and started to work there Co., which manufactured mainly for Telegrafieausrüstung to Öller &. After six years he received because of his skills a scholarship to continue further training abroad. He went to Switzerland and to Germany, where he worked for Siemens & Halske.

When he returned to Sweden in 1876, he and a colleague of Öller & Co, Carl Johan Andersson, a small mechanical workshop. This was in a former kitchen to approximately 13 m² in Drottningsgatan 15 in central Stockholm. At the beginning they were concerned with the production of mathematical and physical instruments, but soon began to manufacture its own variant of phones. 1883 began working with Henrik Cedergren goals, founder of Stockholm allmänna telefonaktiebolag, and Ericsson's company began to grow vigorously and became the present-day company Telefon AB LM Ericsson. In 1900 Lars Magnus Ericsson took 54 - year back out of the company. He kept his shares until 1905 all sold.

It is said that Ericsson was a difficult person and did not like public around them. He was very respected by his employees. He was an opponent of patents, since many of the products of the company with an effective patent legislation would not have been possible. It did not matter to him, as a Norwegian company nachbaute his phone because his own was in large part a replica of Siemens. Would have been more effective legislation, Bell could have let the phone all over the world patent, which was no longer possible. In the beginning, Ericsson did not think many people would be interested to have a private telephone; he saw it as more of a toy for the upper class.

Death

Lars Magnus Ericsson died in 1926 and was in Hagelby gård Botkyrka, south of Stockholm buried. According to his wishes his grave has no grave stone.

His boardroom has been faithfully constructed at the Technical Museum of Stockholm and can be visited there.

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