Inventors . inner, never varied from chops or steak, somevegetables, and tea and brown bread again. Ice-water was the only luxury that he indulged used tobacco in no form. During the day-time he was accustomed to work at his desk ordrawing-table for about ten hours. After dinnerhe resumed work until ten, when he started outfor the stroll of an hour or more, which alwaysended his day. The last desk work accomplishedevery day was to make a record in his diary, al-ways exactly one page long. This diary is inSwedish and comprises more than fourteen thou-sand pages, thus covering a period of
Inventors . inner, never varied from chops or steak, somevegetables, and tea and brown bread again. Ice-water was the only luxury that he indulged used tobacco in no form. During the day-time he was accustomed to work at his desk ordrawing-table for about ten hours. After dinnerhe resumed work until ten, when he started outfor the stroll of an hour or more, which alwaysended his day. The last desk work accomplishedevery day was to make a record in his diary, al-ways exactly one page long. This diary is inSwedish and comprises more than fourteen thou-sand pages, thus covering a period of forty years,during which he omitted but twenty days, in 1856, 206 INVENTORS when he had a finger crushed by machinery. Hescarcely knew what sickness was, and just be-fore his death said that he had not missed a mealfor fifteen years. He was a widower and left nochildren. He died in the Beach Street house,after a short illness, on March 8, 1889, and hisremains were transferred to Sweden with navalhonors. su». The Room in which Ericsson Worked for More than Twenty Years.
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