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20 unusual facts about Royal Institute of Technology


Absorption refrigerator

In 1922 Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters, while they were still students at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, enhanced the principle with a 3-fluid configuration.

Appeal Virtual Machines

Appeal Virtual Machines was a Swedish company created in 1998 by students from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Eco-cities

These gains are measured by the environmental load profile of the area, a life-cycle assessment tool developed by the City of Stockholm, the Royal Institute of Technology, and a consultancy firm.

Helge Palmcrantz

After a couple of years he left the regiment to study at the Technological Institute of Stockholm (later known as KTH).

Henrik I. Christensen

After receiving his Ph.D., Christensen held teaching and research positions at Aalborg University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Royal Institute of Technology.

KBS-3

In 2012, a research group at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, published research that suggests that that the copper capsules of KBS-3 are not as corrosion safe as SKB and Posiva claim.

Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository

In 2012, a research group at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, published research that suggests that that the copper capsules are not as corrosion safe as the companies planning the repositories claim.

Peter David Edstrom

He returned to Sweden after a hobo's journey started in a freight train car on July 29, 1894 and ended (after a wage earner's trip across the Atlantic) in Stockholm where he supported himself during his studies at the Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology and Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

RECCO

During the northern-hemisphere winter of 1978/1979 Magnus worked in conjunction with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, painstakingly conducting an experiment to measuring radio frequency penetration of snow.

Magnus collaborated with researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, at first studying all the existing technologies.

Salt extraction process

This method was developed by S. Seetharaman, O. Grinder, L. Teng and X. Ge at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden as part of a large Steel Eco-Cycle Project in 2005.

Student overall

The use of overalls started in the Royal Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, and spread quickly around Sweden and Finland.

Swedish Game Awards

It has been held annually since 2002 and is organized by the student-driven, non-profit entrepreneurship association at the Royal Institute of Technology, Excitera.

Tekniska högskolan

Royal Institute of Technology, a university in Stockholm, Sweden, called Kungliga Tekniska högskolan or KTH in Swedish, but sometimes referred to as simply Tekniska högskolan.

Tekniska högskolan metro station

Tekniska högskolan is a station on the red line of the Stockholm metro, located in the districts Östermalm and Norra Djurgården, near the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan).

University of Engineering Science and Technology, Sialkot

The Government of Pakistan (not taking any interest till 2013) through Higher Education Commission of Pakistan was financing and building the campus, while the Royal Institute of Technology would have been responsible for technical and human support such as course content, university management, human resource development and quality control.

The Swedish Royal Institute of Technology were also very disappointed that the project director for this university, Mohd.

The Swedish Royal Institute of Technology has recently intimated to the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan that it will be unable to provide any faculty for this institute due to the poor security situation in Pakistan and that the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan should arrange faculty for this institute on its own.

The University of Engineering Science and Technology (UESTP-KTH) Sialkot was to have been established in collaboration with the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology(no physical existence, started near Moore Sambrial but unfortunately stopped).

Vincent Blondel

In 1993-1994 he was a Göran Gustafsson Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) and in 1994-1995 he was a Research Fellow at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in Paris.


Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

The editors-in-chief are Gerhard A. Holzapfel (Center of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology; School of Engineering Sciences, Department of Solid Mechanics, Royal Institute of Technology) and Larry A. Taber (Washington University).

Bluewalks

This project started off in 2008 by a group of students from Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

École centrale de Marseille

Being a part of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, the school has exchange program with many universities accross the world, among them TU Munchen (Germany), Cranfield University (UK), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Penn State (USA), University of Sao Paolo (Brasil), University of Waterloo (Canada) or Keio University (Japan).

Frank Spitzer

He lived with two Swedish families, learned Swedish, graduated from high school, and for one year attended Tekniska Hogskolan in Stockholm.

Sven Markelius

Born in Stockholm in October 1889, he attended the Royal Institute of Technology and the Academy of Arts in Stockholm from 1910 to 1915, later working at the offices of Ragnar Östberg and Erik Lallerstedt.

Weibull

The Weibull probability distribution is named after Waloddi Weibull, an engineer and physicist at the Royal Institute of Technology.