Swedish inventions

Vodka ( ; ) is a clear distilled alcoholic beverage. Its varieties originated in Poland and Russia. Vodka is composed mainly of water and ethanol (alcohol), but sometimes with traces of impurities and flavourings. Traditionally, it is made by distilling liquid from fermented cereal grains and potatoes since the latter was introduced in Europe in the 18th century. Some modern brands use maize, sugar cane, fruit, honey, and maple sap as the base.

The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale (originally known as the centigrade scale in English), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale. The degree Celsius (symbol: °C) can refer to a specific point on the Celsius temperature scale or to a difference or range between two temperatures. It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who proposed the first version of it in 1742. The unit was called centigrade in several languages (from the Latin centum

Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves. These are the most widely used computer networks, used globally in home and small office networks to link devices and to provide Internet access with wireless routers and wireless access points in public places such as coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, libraries, and airports.

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thumb|A Bluetooth earbud, an earphone and microphone that communicates with a cellphone using the Bluetooth protocol

thumb|Zippers with common teeth variations: metal teeth (top), coil teeth and plastic teeth

thumb|upright=1.35|A 'right-handed' propeller on a merchant vessel, which rotates clockwise to propel the ship forward. The man's hand rests on the trailing edge. thumb|upright=1.35|Propeller of Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 [[turboprop mounted on Bombardier Q400]]

gun that uses compressed air to launch projectiles

wrench which can be adjusted

lightweight, precast building material

list of actions or event steps typically defining the interactions between a user role and a system to achieve a goal

loose-leaf binder with ring-shaped clasps that can be opened to pass through holes in the paper

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company

Joost () was an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). During 2007–2008 Joost used peer-to-peer TV (P2PTV) technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead.

propulsion system for vehicles

Gelignite (), also known as blasting gelatin or simply "jelly", is an explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of nitrocellulose or guncotton) dissolved in either nitroglycerine or nitroglycol and mixed with wood pulp and saltpetre (sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate).

a system for producing precision lengths by stacking components

wrench used to rotate pipes

rank-based taxonomy, sometimes (wrongly) ascribed to Linnaeus

thumb|Modern kicksled with child passenger thumb|Kicksleds in Sweden, 1922 The kicksled or spark is a small sled consisting of a chair mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners that extend backward to about twice the chair's length. The sled is propelled by kicking ( or in the Scandinavian languages) the ground by foot. There is a handlebar attached to the top of the chair back. Kicksled is a direct translation of the Finnish word . Estonian calls it either a 'pushsled' () or 'Finnish sled' (). Some other possible translations are kicker and chair-sled.

thumb|Ballistite as seen in a cross-sectional diagram of a British WW1 stokes mortar|Stokes trench mortar cartridge

sport equipment

FOX-7 or 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene (DADNE) is an insensitive high explosive compound. It was first synthesized in 1998 by the Swedish National Defence Research Institute (FOA). According to other information it was synthesized in the USSR in 1990. The name FOX-7 is derived from the acronym of the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), with the I replaced by an X to indicate an explosive, as in RDX and HMX.

type of manufactured floor covering

device used to attach and seal a hose onto a fitting

alloy

source of light

type of omnidirectional wheel

type of internal combustion engine

carton

Method of increasing artillery range

type of shopping bag

roller element bearing that tolerates angular misalignment

electromechanical generator of high-frequency, high-power current for radio transmitters

thumb|Styrofoam insulation extruded polystyrene foam (XPS), owned and manufactured by DuPont Styrofoam is a brand of closed-cell extruded polystyrene foam (XPS), manufactured to provide continuous building insulation board used in walls, roofs, and foundations as thermal insulation and as a water barrier. This material is light blue in color and is owned and manufactured by DuPont. DuPont also has produced a line of green and white foam shapes for use in crafts and floral arrangements.

pizza with kebab ingredients

stove and cooker system

top blown rotary converter for metals

Type of steam turbine

automatic controlled acetylene gas lighthouse

type of multispeed induction motor

__NOTOC__ thumb|upright=1.35|Operator controls and sight of a Geodimeter The Geodimeter (acronym of geodetic distance meter) was the first optical electronic distance meter surveying instrument. It was originally developed for measuring the speed of light. It was invented in 1947 by and commercialized in 1953 by the AGA (Aktiebolaget Gasaccumulator) company of Sweden. It was used in the Transcontinental Traverse.

early type of bicycle