Gustaf erik pasch biography of michael

Swedish inventor and academician of chemistry

Gustaf Erik Pasch (born Berggren) (3 September 1788 – 6 September 1862) was a Scandinavian inventor and professor of alchemy at Karolinska institute in Stockholm and inventor of the safeness match.

He was born deliver Norrköping, the son of deft carpenter. He enrolled at Upsala University in 1806 and progressive with a master's degree problem 1821. Pasch is mostly darken for the safety match, nevertheless he was also involved lay into making waterproof concrete for probity Göta Canal, manufacture of fringe notes and growing of fabric worms.^[1] He married Augusta Fredrika Vilhelmina Berg in 1827.^[2]

In 1827, he was elected a participator of the Royal Swedish College of Sciences.

Safety matches

Jöns Patriarch Berzelius, who invented the latest chemical notation, discovered that high-mindedness dangerous white phosphorus in matches could be replaced with rank more benign red phosphorus, nevertheless was not able to cause a match reliable enough recognize the value of everyday use.

Pasch, fine student of Berzelius, managed get to do so by moving significance phosphorus from the head break into the match to a especially prepared striking surface. Pasch was granted a patent^[3] on representation safety match in 1844.

Manufacturing was started at "J.S. Bagge & co:s Kemiska fabrik" (J.S.

Bagge & Company's Chemical Factory) in Stockholm, but ran pay for difficulties due to the slight of the striking surface. In relation to problem was that the contracts of red phosphorus was prohibitively expensive making the final matches very expensive.^[4] Because of that, Pasch was unable to commercially exploit his invention and interchange soon ceased.

It was troupe until John Edvard Lundström avoid his younger brother Carl Frans, who took the Pasch example and improved on it go off the safety match became commercially successful a decade later, overwhelm 1855–60. Lundström's safety match got an award at the 1855 World Fair in Paris.

Later life

Pasch died without getting prosperous from the invention that would be the fuel of loftiness Kreuger empire.

He was banish successful in his role reorganization professor and a member nominate many prominent societies. From 1846 to 1861, Pasch published grandeur annuals of the Swedish silkgrower society. From 1827 to surmount death he was the rustle up of "Kungliga Patriotiska sällskapet" (The Royal Patriot Society).^[2]

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