AGA AB, previously ''AB Gasaccumulator'' and ''AB Svenska Gasaccumulator'', was a Swedish

industrial gas Industrial gases are the gaseous materials that are Manufacturing, manufactured for use in Industrial sector, industry. The principal gases provided are nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, argon, hydrogen, helium and acetylene, although many other ...

company founded in 1904.

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...

laureate

Gustaf Dalén Nils Gustaf Dalén (; 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 "for his invention of Sun valve, automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators fo ...

was an important part of the development of the company. Inventions included the

AGA cooker The Aga Range Cooker is a Swedish range Kitchen stove, cooker. Invented and initially produced in Sweden, since 1957 most production has been located in the UK. In 2015, the British AGA Cooker manufacturing company, AGA Rangemaster Group, was a ...

and the

Dalén light A Dalén light is a flashing light produced from burning of carbide gas (acetylene), combined with a solar sensor which automatically operates the light only during darkness. Overview In the last quarter of the 19th century navigation buoys bega ...

. In the 1990s, AGA conceived and developed HiQ for specialty gases. In 2000, AGA (which stands for Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator) was integrated into Linde AG.

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Linde Gas

HiQ Specialty Gases from AGA and The Linde Group
Defunct companies of Sweden Linde plc 1904 establishments in Sweden {{industry-company-stub