Emil Tyden. Emil Tyden b. Sweden, immigrated to Moline, Illinois. 1882 worked for Moline Organ Company; business man in Chicago, land agent for the Union Pacific Railroad; owner, Tyden's International Seal and Lock Company, Hastings, Michigan, which used an automated system to mass produce a product ten years before Henry Ford's car manufacturing system; director at the Rock Island Military Arsenal; invented a dry valve sprinkler system and started the Viking Corporation; Inventor of the "Tyden Self-Locking Seal," a tamper-proof device that fits any boxcar locking mechanism. Owner, farm land in Floyd and Butler counties, in Iowa. By 1938 he owned 8 farms of about 3,000 acres. 1941 opened Tyden Livestock and Feeding Company in Dougherty, Iowa. Died in 1951, age 86 with over 200 patents.
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