Niels Christensen Inventor of O-Ring
Niels Christensen Inventor of O-Ring

Biography of Niels Christensen

Early Life

Niels Christensen Inventor of O-Ring was a Danish scientist who got the citizenship of America later on. He was from the Danish descent and was born in the year of 1865 on 06th in the month of September. His place of birth was as Torring Uldum municipality which is located in the Denmark. He was from a poor and meritorious background and hence this thing created many problems for him in his initial life. He was very intellectual and kind of a genius boy from very young age because he showed his skills and aptitude at many places and points. He started his initial education from local town school which was located near his farm house. After initial education, he studied the field of physics and mechanics and hence earned his professional degree in the field.

Career

As much of his education background details are not available in the history but it is worth clear that he was interested in mechanics. He completed his education and after that, started his formal career. He started that with an apprenticeship with a professional mechanist of the field in Vejle which is within Denmark. After his apprenticeship, his much professional and formal career started with his entry in Technical institute of Copenhagen. The institute is now known as the Faculty of Science of the University of Copenhagen. He worked there for a short time and later on, moved to the United States of America in the year of 1892 when he was just 26 years of age.

Inventor of O-Ring

He continued his career as a draftsman in Chicago in USA while he was working in Fraser and Chalmers. In the year of 1933, he had become too old when he invented this thing as known as O-Ring. He was working in his basement when he made this invention.

O-Ring

Neils Christensen is considered as the inventor of the O-Ring which he invented in the age of 68 years. This invention led him to be considered as a scientist and he applied for a patent for his invention after working on it and making it better. He applied in the year of 1937 and he was granted this patent in the year o 1939. O-Ring is a kind of packing or it is known as packing sometimes. It is found in the shape of a torus so sometimes it is also called as toric joint. This ring is a mechanical instrument in the form of gasket and shaped as a loop as of elastometer sectioned crossly in round shape. Generally it is used in the way that it is pressed between two parts or more than that to create a seal in the way of interface.

Death

He died in the year of 1952. He was almost 87 years of age at the time of his death.