Georg Tysland

Who was Georg Tysland?

Georg Jacob Tysland was a Norwegian engineer.

He was born in Kristiania as a son of colonel Lars Jørgen Tysland and Marie Cathrine Sandberg, and was a grandson of Ole Rømer Sandberg and cousin of Ole Rømer Sandberg. He grew up in Kristiania and Bergen, and graduated from Bergen Technical School in 1908 before finishing his secondary education at Bergen Cathedral School in 1910. He graduated from the University of Liège in 1913.

He was a manager at Tinfos Jernverk from 1913 to 1916, and then spent half a year in the United States, a stay interrupted by rheumatic fever. Back in Norway he established Skaland Grafittverk in 1918, was hired in the Ministry of Trade in 1921 and then in Fiskaa Verk in 1922. He was hired to experiment with new furnaces, and in 1929 the Tysland-Hole Furnace was ready for use. Tysland worked at Christiania Spigerverk from 1924 to 1927, Bremanger Smelteverk from 1927 to 1931, then Skaland Grafittverk from 1931 to his death from heart failure.