Lars Magnus Ericsson

Place: Nordtomta

Born: 1846

Death: 1926

Biography:

L.M.ERICSSON, also known as Lars Magnus Ericsson, was a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur who founded the telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson). He studied at the village school for 5 years and constructed Sweden's first telephone line at the age of 17. Ericsson worked for six years for an instrument maker named Öllers & Co., where he helped to improve Bell's construction and made the telephone less clumsy. He founded a small mechanical workshop together with his friend Carl Johan Andersson in 1876, where he started a telephone company by analyzing Bell company and Siemens telephones and creating his own copies in their image. Ericsson became world famous for his major contributions to the development of the Telephone and founded the telephone company Ericsson.