Carl Nicolai Andreas Solberg
Carl Nicolai Andreas Solberg ( -1908)
1908 Obituary [1]
CARL NICOLAI ANDREAS SOLBERG died in Norway on March 22, 1908. He was born in Drammen, Norway, and educated at Drammen Grammar School. He entered the University of Christiania in 1889.
Afterwards he went to Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied science, especially electricity, and graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1893. He then returned home and became interested in and afterwards managing director of the electrical concern Norsk Elektrisk Aktiebolag from 1898 to 1905.
After having effected in this year a combine of this firm with the Norway branch of the firm of Brown Boveri & Co., of Baden, Switzerland, he went for a time to Baden, but having from his stay in Cambridge always had a great liking for England, he soon afterwards accepted an offer of the management of the new branch of the Electrical Company Ltd. at Newcastle.
In the autumn of 1907 he was taken ill, and went by his physician's advice to Egypt, but becoming worse he returned to Norway, where he died.
He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1907.