Hanna Hammarström, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hanna Hammarström

businessperson

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1829

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1909

Profession: businessperson, engineer, inventor

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Hanna Hammarström

  • Hanna Hammarström (Stockholm, 4 November 1829 – 1909), was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.
  • She was the first person in Sweden to produce telephone wires commercially.
  • She manufactured the wires for the first Swedish telephone network.
  • She also exported wire to Finland.Hanna Hammarström was the daughter of the cotton and silk merchant Per Hammarström (d.
  • 1868) and Christina Holmberg.
  • Her father wished for all his children to learn a profession, so she learned to manufacture various forms of ornaments.
  • Though telephone wires were invented before her, the way to make them was not known in Sweden, so the Swedish telephone network depended on foreign manufacturers.
  • Hammarström managed to develop telephone wires by herself with the knowledge she learned by making ornaments out of metal strings.
  • She started her own factory, and in 1883 took over the task of providing telephone wires to the Swedish telephone company.
  • She had a monopoly on the production through the 1880s and 1890s.
  • In her factory in Stockholm, she employed only women, whom she educated herself.
  • In 1886, she was awarded first prize for her invention at a machinery exhibition in Stockholm.
  • She manufactured wires for several telephone factories.

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