Senor Chevalier Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > UDT, but the first point in your latest instalment > of the Swedish saga you are... Ooooh I LOVE a Swedish Aga! http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01532/Aga_1532423c.jpg This one was in The Needles lighthouse... Hey mister, I'll have you know the aga is a truly English creation which has been warming British hearths for three centuries! Yours, A Fan. SIR ? The Aga is not a "truly English creation which has been warming British hearths for three centuries" (Life, November 22). It was invented only 80 years ago by a Swedish Nobel Prize winner, Gustaf Dal?n. Born in 1865, Dal?n was a gifted inventor who obtained nearly a hundred patents. When he was 13 years old he invented an alarm clock which switched on the light and boiled the coffee before the alarm went off?. The Aga company was founded in 1904, mainly to market the lighthouse invented by Dal?n. I have an electric, extremely economical Aga myself, which I love. I may concede, however, that I have seen more Agas in England than in Sweden. Professor Ingrid Detter Frankopan (sic) London WC1