CE Johansson 1932 on receiving the degree of Honory Doctor of Science at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, USA.

Carl Edvard, his wife Margareta and their four children, from left; Elsa, Signe, Edvard and Gertrud. Photo 1918.

Carl Edvard Johansson (1864-1943) was a Swedish inventor and scientist.

Family: Married to Margareta Andersson in 1896. Four children; Elsa, Signe, Edvard and Gertrud.

Invented the gauge block set, also known as "Jo Blocks" abbr. for 'Johansson gauge blocks'. He was granted his first Swedish patent on 2 May 1901, SE patent No. 17017 called "Gauge Block Sets for Precision Measurement". He formed the Swedish company CE Johansson AB, Eskilstuna, Sweden 1911. The company is also known as 'CEJ AB'. The first CEJ gauge block set in America was sold to Henry Martin Leland at Cadillac Automobile Co. around 1908. "There are only two people I take off my hat to. One is the president of the United States and the other is Mr. Johansson from Sweden". The statement was made by Henry M. Leland around 1920.

At the end of his career, in 1923, CE Johansson started to work for Henry Ford at the Ford Motor Company, in Dearborn. Henry Ford bought the entire American company, CE Johansson Inc., that he had etablished 1918 in Poughkeepsie, New York State and all the equipment was moved to Dearborn. Some of his Swedish employees that worked in Poughkeepsie was also employed by Ford. At the age of 72, 1936 he decided to retire and went back to Sweden. During his life he had crossed the Atlantic 22 times and spent a lot of time in America. Henry Ford (1919) Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. ...

He was awarded the large gold medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, posthumously in 1943, shortly after his death. The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or , founded in 1919 by King Gustav V, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. ...

References

• CE Johansson-The Master of Measurement, by Torsten K.W. Althin at the request of CE Johansson AB, 1948. Publ. by CEJ AB.