Photographs, ca. 1910.

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Photographs, ca. 1910.

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Photographs related to the Nordberg Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee, Wis., circa 1910. Images include views of heavy machinery used in the manufacture of mine hoisting engines and aerial views of the manufacturing company. The collection also includes an album of photographs made in the manufacturing plant of the company of corliss and poppett valve steam engines.

182 photographs.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6924086

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Nordberg Manufacturing Company

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Bruno Victor Nordberg was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1858. He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Helsinki in 1878. In 1880 he migrated to the U.S. and to Milwaukee, and in 1889 founded the Nordberg Manufacturing Co. to manufacture an automatic governor, for which he held the patent. The company soon expanded into the manufacture of valve engines, pumps, hoists, compressors, and similar equipment. Nordberg was vice-president, designer, and draftsman for the company from 1890 to 1912, i...