Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. At the time of his birth, he was the fourth son of Immanuel and Caroline Nobel. Immanuel, his father, was an inventor and engineer who had married Caroline, his mother, in 1827. They had eight children, but only Alfred and three brothers reached adulthood. As a child Alfred was prone to illness, but this didn't interfere with his love of explosives and the fundamentals of engineering. He learned these things from his father, who failed at various businesses throughout Alfred's life.
Without any formal education, Alfred's experiments with explosives became more serious in 1589. At the time of these experiments, the only available explosive for use in mines was black powder, some kind of gunpowder. Nitroglycerin was soon developed, so Alfred opened a small nitroglycerin manufacturing factory. Simultaneously, he was working on a formula to find a safe way to control the substance's detonation. By 1865,......

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