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Pythagoras Mechanical Workshop Museum - Pythagoras Industrimuseum

76143 Norrtälje, Suède (Stockholms län)

Adresse Verkstadsgatan 6
 
 
Surface d'exposition - inconnue pour le moment  
 
Type de musée
Technical Museum in general


Heures d'ouverture
On request only.

Tarif
We don't know the fees.
Nous ne connaissons pas les tarifs.

Contact
Tel. :+46-176-100 50  Fax :+46-176-100 28  
Mail :pythagoras pythagorasmuseum.se   

Page web www.pythagorasmuseum.se

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Localisation / directions
N59.755237° E18.699319°N59°45.31422' E18°41.95914'N59°45'18.8532" E18°41'57.5484"

Description Text from Wikipedia 2/2012:

Pythagoras Mechanical Workshop Museum (Swedish: Pythagoras industrimuseum) is located in the premises of the earlier engine factory Pythagoras at the town of Norrtälje in the province of Uppland in Sweden. At the museum, production facilities and working conditions from the first half of the 20th century are on display. The factory produced hot bulb engines and spare parts for them from 1908 up to closure of the workshop in 1979. The engine factory is an industrial heritage site, complete with functioning production lines and offices.

The company was founded in 1898 as Verkstads AB Pythagoras (Pythagoras Mechanical Workshop Ltd.), originally to produce mechanical calculators, hence its name from the Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras. However, these plans failed and the factory in stead started producing locks, brass candlesticks and electrical fittings. Beginning in 1908 hot bulb engines were designed and manufactured, and such engines afterwards dominated the production line of the Pythagoras factory.

After a bankruptcy in 1927 the company was reconstituted as Nya AB Pythagoras (New Pythagoras Ltd.). A new bankruptcy followed during the Depression in 1933, but it was reorganized once more. From 1957 and onwards, under new owners, the production was step by step reduced.

Pythagoras manufactured hot bulb engines under the trademarks of Fram and Drott, the latter for export markets. The engines were used in farm machinery and on fishing and other vessels. The company was, with about 80 employees, once the largest manufacturer in Norrtälje.

The factory was threatened by demolition in the early 1980s, but was rescued by a group of local enthusiasts. Nowadays the Pythagoras Engine Factory is recognized as one of the most valuable industrial heritage monuments in Sweden.. The Pythagoras Mechanical Workshop Museum is owned by the Engine Factory Pythagoras Foundation, which runs it in cooperation with the support group Pythagoras Vänner (The Friends of Pythagoras).

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