This Danish-made refrigeration compressor unit is part of Finland’s history of margarine production. Atlas, the name deriving from the Danish manufacturing company A/S Atlas, was used in the margarine factory of Osuustukkukauppa (OTK) in Helsinki, where it served as the factory’s primary compressor unit from 1929 to 1956.
Atlas is one of the first items ever to be added to the museum’s collection. The unit was moved from OTK to the City of Helsinki in 1967, and in turn was donated to the Museum of Technology in 1970. The museum had been established the year prior, and the premises had only just recently been vacated and renovated from their former usage as a water filtration and hydroelectric plant. A suitable location to display the compressor was decided early on in the museum’s history, and ever since then, Atlas hasn’t moved from its spot . Atlas is a magnificently large object, and it must have been quite the operation to get it into place. Later down the line, OTK donated more machinery that was associated with Atlas, thus completing the refrigeration machinery part of the museum’s collection.
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