"Globoid" machine from 1938, exibit number 16723 at the Norwegian Technical Museum, Oslo. This machine was produced in Germany in 1937, and could manufacture 1,000 pieces per hour. The "Globoid" was a painkiller medicine patented in Norway by Nyegaard & Co, later to become the global pharmaceutical company "Nycomed". The "Globoid" is probably the most successful medicine produced in Norway, in wide use during more than 50 years.