Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Gorlov, Svend 1893 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Rayburn http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006128 November 3, 2015, 12:28 am Source: Vol. II pg.135-136 The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923 Author: History of Florida, Past and Present SVEND GORLOV is an electrical engineer and inventor, a young man of brilliant attainments in his chosen field, and has given the widening enterprise of Miami an additional advantage by organizing a firm and building a plant for the manufacture of the Gorlov Instantaneous Electric Water Heater and Electric Radiator. Mr. Gorlov was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1893. His father, still living in Denmark, has had a life-long association with the sea as a mariner and master of ships. His travel and experience have been world-wide. He has served as a member of the Shipping Board of Denmark. SVEND GORLOV as a boy manifested talents for the technical arts, and was given every advantage in the great technical schools of his native country. He attended public school in Copenhagen, also the public technical schools and the Polytech Institution of Copenhagen. As a young man of twenty-four he came to America, and for a time was employed as an electrical engineer. Mr. Gorlov established his home in Miami in 1919. Here he organized and conducted the Fidelity Electric Company, handling general electrical contracting, but making a specialty of the repair and rebuilding of motors. All the time his active mind was busy with special devices in the field of electricity, and in 1922 he was awarded a letters patent on an electrical hot water heater. The patented principle is based on heating elements embodied in the water pipe or tubing, ensuring instantaneous and continuous heating of the water, not only from one faucet but from any number of faucets on the pipe. The heater in its entirety also embraces a number of other advantages. One of them is that the materials used in the manufacture make it proof against erosion or wearing away from the use of hard water or water containing injurious mineral elements. While there are many types of water heaters, the practicability of the Gorlov invention was so easily demonstrated that contracts for its installation and buildings came to Mr. Gorlov with little effort on his part. The result was that capital was readily enlisted and a company was organized for the manufacture and sale of the invention. This company, organized in June, 1922, under the laws of Florida, is the Gorlov Heater Company, primarily engaged in the manufacture of the Gorlov Instantaneous Electric Heater. The president of the Corporation is R. F. URIE, of Frostproof, Florida, formally a prominent merchant, fruit grower and banker. Mr. Gorlov is vice president and active manager. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/dade/bios/gorlov250bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/flfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb