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Sam Eyde, ( 29 October 1866 - 21 June 1940 ) was a Norwegian Engineer and Industrialist born in Arendal . Sam (Samuel) Eyde was the son of a shipowner, and studied engineering in Berlin where he graduated in 1891 . He started his career in Hamburg , working with the railways where he planned new lines, bridges and stations. In 1897 he started his own business, Gleim & Eyde with his previous boss from Hamburg . He soon established offices in Kristiania (Oslo today) and Stockholm , and by the turn of the century his firm was one of the largest in Scandinavia , with some 30 engineers. Together with the scientist Kristian Birkeland , Sam Eyde is best known for establishing Norsk Hydro in 1905 , to produce Fertiliser using abundant Norwegian hydroelectrical power. Crucial to financing the new company was the Swedish Wallenberg family. Eyde had got in contact with them through his work in Sweden. : : |
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