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Lars Ericsson was born into a family of farmers in Grums Municipality, Sweden. He was the eldest of five children. He was educated at the local school and then went on to study engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. At the age of 24, Lars Ericsson founded his own engineering company, which he named Ericsson & Co. He was an innovator and inventor, and his company quickly became a leader in the field of telecommunications. He developed the first telephone exchange in Sweden and was the first to introduce the telephone to the country. In 1876, Lars Ericsson invented the first telephone switchboard, which allowed multiple calls to be connected at the same time. This invention revolutionized the telecommunications industry and made Ericsson & Co. one of the most successful companies in the world. Lars Ericsson was also a philanthropist and was involved in many charitable causes. He was a major contributor to the Swedish Red Cross and was a founding member of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. At the age of 80, Lars Ericsson had an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion. He passed away in 1926 at the age of 80.

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Occupation Inventor, entrepreneur
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 5 May, 1846
Birthday 5 May
Birthplace Värmskog, Sweden–Norway
Date of death December 17, 1926,
Died Place Botkyrka, Sweden
Nationality Sweden

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Who Is Lars Ericsson's Wife?

His wife is Hilda Ericsson (m. 1878–1926)

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Lars Ericsson Net Worth

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1926

After his death in 1926, he was buried at Hågelby gård in Botkyrka. At his explicit request, there is no headstone marking his grave.

1900

In the year 1900 Lars Magnus retired from Ericsson at the age of 54. He kept his shares in the company until 1905 and then sold them all.

1876

Upon his return to Sweden in 1876, he founded a small mechanical workshop together with his friend Carl Johan Andersson who had also worked at Öllers & Co.. This workshop was actually a former kitchen of some 13 m situated at Drottninggatan 15 in the most central part of Stockholm. Here, he started a telephone company by analyzing Bell company and Siemens telephones and creating his own copies in their image. It was not until they started cooperating with Henrik Tore Cedergren in 1883 that the company would start to grow into the Ericsson corporation.

1867

Lars Magnus was born in Värmskog, Värmland, and grew up in the small village of Vegerbol located between Karlstad and Arvika. At the age of 12, Ericsson's father died forcing him to seek work as a miner. He worked until he had money enough to leave the village and move to Stockholm in 1867. He then worked for six years for an instrument maker named Öllers & Co. who mainly created telegraph equipment. Because of his skills, he was given two state scholarships to study instrument making abroad between 1872 and 1875. One of the companies he worked at was Siemens & Halske.

1846

Lars Magnus Ericsson (Swedish pronunciation: [lɑːʂ ˈmǎŋːnɵs ˈêːrɪkˌsɔn] ( listen ) ; 5 May 1846 – 17 December 1926) was a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson).

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