Anders Angerstein in the family until the 19th century. Anders Angerstein is noted for improvements for charcoal piles during his tenure. In 1981, the former Angerstein steelworks of which he laid the foundation were transformed into the "Steelworks Museum of Vikmanshyttan", maintained as a museum of regional industrial history. Anders Angerstein Anders Angerstein (1614-1659), also called "Andrae Angerstein", was a German-Swedish ironmaster. Anders Angerstein is said to have been born in , Niedersachsen, Holy Roman Empire, with evidence indicating ultimate family origins in Hungary. He immigrated to Sweden along with accompanying miners, first in service of other equally immigrated ironmasters but with
Anders Celsius conducted with his assistant Olof Hiorter, and he was the first to suggest a connection between the aurora borealis and changes in the magnetic field of the Earth. He observed the variations of a compass needle and found that larger deflections correlated with stronger auroral activity. At Nuremberg in 1733, he published a collection of 316 observations of the aurora borealis made by himself and others over the period 1716–1732. Celsius traveled frequently in the early 1730s, including to Germany, Italy and France, when he visited most of the major European observatories. In Paris he advocated the measurement of an