Editing Burmeister & Wain (section)

===Growth and development===
Production of stationary ''[[kerosene|paraffin]]'' engines began in 1890. Then, in 1898, a year after introducing it to the world,  B&W director [[Ivar Knudsen]] (1861–1920) negotiated with [[Rudolf Diesel]] exclusive Danish manufacturing rights for the diesel engine.  A test engine was built that same year.  The 1903-1904 year saw delivery of their first diesel engine to the N. Larsen Carriage Factory.  1911-1912 saw the world's first ever ocean-going diesel-powered ship, [[Selandia|M/S Selandia]], start her maiden voyage from Copenhagen to [[Bangkok]] with two B&W [[four-stroke]] main engines (furnishing a total of 2,500&nbsp;hp).<ref>{{cite web|url=      https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/14/0241.html|title=  Knudsen, Ivar|website=  Salmonsens konversationsleksikon |access-date=1 October 2019}}</ref>

The larger [[Teglholmen]] iron foundry was established in the 1920-1921 year to provide capacity for growth in the coming years of business acquisition. 

William Elmgreen worked at Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen as a 20 year old apprentice in 1922. His father Jens Peter Elmgreen had worked there in the 1890s. He later recalled that at that time some 12,000 workers were engaged to build ships, manufacture diesel engines and carry out ship repairs of all kinds. He was one of 2,500 men on Refshale Island, building and repairing ships. They had private lockers for their gear, their bikes were sheltered in enormous sheds, and had access to modern shower rooms – all regarded as modern conveniences in 1922. In the canteen - seating 2,500 - a hot lunch cost 0.75 Kr, and beer was also available in unlimited quantities. On one hot summer's day, seventy cases @ 50 bottles per case of beer were consumed in the canteen by the workers in their lunch hour and a half. Well-cooked food was picked up at the food bar, run by the Workers’ Cooperative, milk and soft drinks were also available. Tools were available at the tool sheds, workers signed for them and paid if they lost any. Each worker was allocated a number (his was 2274). He was engaged on a piece work basis, and worked in a propeller gang.

The first B&W two-stroke diesel engine set off to sea in 1930 and the world's largest diesel engine at the time was delivered in 1933 to [[H. C. Ørsted Power Station]].
Steady progress and consolidation continued through the period of [[World War II]] and the subsequent period of reinvigorated prosperity.  The first turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine was commissioned in 1952 with larger and more innovative designs to follow.

By this point, the company's engines and licensed designs were used worldwide throughout the industry.  Meanwhile, post-war east Asian economies began to emerge as an industrial force.