Axel Welin

Ernst Martin Axel Welin (10 November 1862 – 27 July 1951), was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.

Axel Welin studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1879 to 1884.

Between 1886 and 1888, Welin worked as a weapons designer for Thorsten Nordenfelt in London.

The RMS Titanic was equipped with Welin davits,[1] and after the disaster the demand for his product skyrocketed.

He was awarded the John Scott Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1911.