Sweden has a surprising number of inventors and inventions for its small size. Everyone knows about IKEA and Spotify, but there have been many other Swedish inventions throughout time. Inventions that changed the world.

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In this video I'm listing 10 of the most interesting Swedish inventions. Not all of them had a massive impact on the world, but all of them are noteworthy in one way or another.

The inventions listed are:

The three-point seatbelt, by Nils Bohlin and Volvo
The absorption refrigerator, by Carl Munters and Baltzar von Platen
The zipper, by Gideon Sundbäck
The Celsius temperature scale, by Anders Celsius
The safety match, by Gustaf Erik Pasch
The adjustable spanner, by Johan Petter Johansson
Automatic Identification System, by Håkan Lans
The candy cane...sort of. Or at least the polkagris, by Amalia Eriksson
The first pacemaker implant, by Rune Elmqvist and surgeon Åke Senning
And finally, dynamite, by Alfred Nobel