copy [of 1564] seems unique." Awards Among his awards and honors, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Iceland conferred honorary doctorate degrees. He was awarded medals from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 and the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1916. King Christian X of Denmark presented Thordarson with the Order of the Falcon in 1939. Patents Death Thordarson died of heart failure in Chicago, Illinois on January 6, 1945. See also Charles Proteus Steinmetz – a contemporaneous electrical pioneer in alternating current and high voltage research Nikola Tesla References Further reading Cartwright, Carol Lohry (1986) "Rock Island: The Personification of Chester H. Thordarson". The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Spring, 1986): 211-227. Eaton, Conan Bryant (1969) Rock Island, a part of the Washington Township (Jackson Harbor Press) Purinton, Richard (2013) Thordarson and Rock Island (Island Bayou Press) External links Thordarson Meissner, Inc. website Rock Island State Park website Chester Thordarson's Rock Island 1867 births 1945 deaths People from Door County, Wisconsin American inventors Chester Thordarson American manufacturing businesspeople People associated with electricity American electrical engineers Businesspeople from Chicago Recipients of the Order of the Falcon 19th-century American engineers 20th-century American engineers American futurologists American humanists American mechanical engineers Scientists from New York City Wireless energy transfer Engineers from New York (state) Engineers from Illinois