Nordberg Manufacturing Company Engineering Blueprints Collection, Circa 1890-Circa 1946.

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Nordberg Manufacturing Company Engineering Blueprints Collection, Circa 1890-Circa 1946.

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Blueprints, circa 1890-circa 1946, of the Nordberg Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Includes blueprints of valve engines, pumps, hoists, compressors, and similar equipment, much of which was used by mining companies in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

220.0 cubic feet; 110 map drawers.

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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SNAC Resource ID: 8145316

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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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...