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Gustaf de Laval

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Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval (9 May 1845 – 2 February 1913) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and dairy machinery. [1]

26 relations: Alfa Laval, Automatic milking, Charles Algernon Parsons, Cream, Dairy, Dalarna, De Laval nozzle, DeLaval, History of the internal combustion engine, Huguenots, Kloster, Sweden, Milk, Nacka, Norra begravningsplatsen, Nozzle, Orsa Municipality, Rocket engine nozzle, Royal Institute of Technology, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Separator (milk), Steam turbine, Stockholm, Stora Enso, Sweden, Tetra Pak, Uppsala University.

Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm.

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Automatic milking

Automatic milking is the milking of dairy animals, especially of dairy cattle, without human labour.

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Charles Algernon Parsons

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, (13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931), the son of a member of the Irish peerage,http://www.tcd.ie/Secretary/FellowsScholars/discourses/discourses/1968_Lord%20Rosse%20on%20W.%20Parsons.pdf was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the compound steam turbine, and as the namesake of C. A. Parsons and Company.

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Cream

Cream is a dairy product composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization.

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Dairy

A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting or processing (or both) of animal milk – mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffaloes, sheep, horses, or camels – for human consumption.

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Dalarna

Dalarna (English exonym: Dalecarlia), is a historical province or landskap in central Sweden.

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De Laval nozzle

A de Laval nozzle (or convergent-divergent nozzle, CD nozzle or con-di nozzle) is a tube that is pinched in the middle, making a carefully balanced, asymmetric hourglass shape.

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DeLaval

DeLaval is a leading producer of dairy and farming machinery, with a head office in Tumba, Sweden, and is part of the Tetra Laval group.

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History of the internal combustion engine

Various scientists and engineers contributed to the development of internal combustion engines.

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Huguenots

Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.

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Kloster, Sweden

Kloster is a village in Hedemora Municipality, Dalarna, Sweden.

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Milk

Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

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Nacka

Nacka is the municipal seat of Nacka Municipality and part of Stockholm urban area in Sweden.

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Norra begravningsplatsen

Norra begravningsplatsen, literally "The Northern Cemetery" in Swedish, is a major cemetery of the Stockholm urban area, located in Solna Municipality.

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Nozzle

A nozzle is a device designed to control the direction or characteristics of a fluid flow (especially to increase velocity) as it exits (or enters) an enclosed chamber or pipe.

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Orsa Municipality

Orsa Municipality (Orsa kommun) is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden.

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Rocket engine nozzle

A rocket engine nozzle is a propelling nozzle (usually of the de Laval type) used in a rocket engine to expand and accelerate the combustion gases produced by burning propellants so that the exhaust gases exit the nozzle at hypersonic velocities.

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Royal Institute of Technology

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH; Kungliga Tekniska högskolan) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden, specialized in Engineering and Technology, it ranks highest in northern mainland Europe in its academic fields.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.

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Separator (milk)

A separator is a centrifugal device that separates milk into cream and skimmed milk.

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Steam turbine

A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Stora Enso

Stora Enso Oyj (Stora and Enso) is a pulp and paper manufacturer headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with significant operations in four continents.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak is a multinational food packaging and processing sub-company of Tetra Laval, with head offices in Lund, Sweden, and Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Uppsala University

Uppsala University (Uppsala universitet) is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Sweden and all of the Nordic countries still in operation, founded in 1477.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_de_Laval

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