Oscar Kjellberg

Oscar Kjellberg ( born September 21, 1870 in Arvika, † July 5, 1931 in Gothenburg ) was a Swedish engineer and inventor.

Kjellberg began his career as a technician in " Lindholmens verkstad " - a shipyard in Gothenburg. He developed the electric welding. Lindholmens verkstad funded the development of the invention and the company ESAB founded in 1904. The electric welding soon gained quite important for shipbuilding. Before the First World War ESAB factories had in England and Russia. Oscar Kjellberg is considered the inventor of the covered welding electrode. On 27 June 1908 he was awarded the Imperial Imperial Patent 231733 " electrode and method for electrical soldering ."

The manufacture and marketing of this invention, he founded together with six other German and Swedish shareholders in 1921 in Berlin, Kjellberg electrode GmbH. For lack of suitable welding power sources was established at the suggestion of Oscar Kjellberg in 1922 Kjellberg Electric GmbH in Finsterwalde. The first in Finsterwalde developed and built welding generator Ke 200/1450 was presented at the 1923 spring fair in Leipzig. In the same year in Finsterwalde launched the welding electrode production. The oldest product is the stick electrode OK G2 / 1, an electrode for repair welding.

After his death, Kjellberg was ( kyrkogården Östra ) on the east cemetery buried in Gothenburg.