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3 unusual facts about Samuel Owen


Samuel Owen

Samuel Owen, (born 12 May 1774 in Norton in Hales, Shropshire, England - died 15 February 1854 in Stockholm, Sweden), was a British-Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist.

However he continued to work and was employed for some years at a company in Södertälje, but in 1853 he became sick and died in February 1854, aged seventy-nine.

1807 he decided to stay in Sweden and in 1809 he opened his own workshop 'Kungsholmens Mekaniska Verkstad', situated at Kungsholmen in Stockholm.



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