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  Technology Transfer

Telephones, cameras, special pharmaceutical preparations, electrical measuring devices on the one hand, and coloured broadsheets and lithographs on the other – at the turn of the century, Scandinavians were importing a variety of products from Germany, which enjoyed a leading position in a number of technical fields. The majority of Scandinavian engineers studied at colleges in Germany.

[Morse Telegraph]

[Bottles with Berzelius Nomenclature]

 The Germans, in turn, also profited from the Scandinavians – and not only from the introduction of Swedish matches. An entire generation of German scientists attended the lectures of the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius. Scientists in Freiberg, Saxony, developed further the blowpipe technology he invented.
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