Paul Tenngart's book explores the Nobel Prize in Literature's influence on global literary canon, highlighting biases and the ...

and his transition from arms manufacturer to founder of the Nobel Prize is intriguing. Known as the 'dynamite king,' he ...

Dynamite made it much less expensive to blast rock when building tunnels, canals and railways. But it quickly found another use: as a weapon of war. Nobel later invented a more powerful form of ...

Does an invention help people or hurt people? Can an invention do both? Let us look at an example: the invention of dynamite by Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel was a Swedish scientist. While Nobel was in ...

It was created by Alfred Nobel (yes, the "Nobel Peace Prize" Nobel), to improve mining. As dynamite ages, the dynamite will begin to weep and sweat nitroglycerine according to MuniRem ...

By absorbing nitroglycerin into silica-rich clay, it “created kind of a putty, and [Nobel] realized that it completely stabilized nitroglycerin,” Rose said. He called the new substance dynamite. The ...

Start with Alfred Nobel’s dynamite, the first explosive to unlock the staggering — but unstable — energy potential of nitroglycerin. Nobel had spent years perfecting a detonator design to ...

The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling dynamite and explosives in the 19th century, was not an obvious candidate to become the namesake ...

The central bank established it in 1968 as a memorial to Nobel, the 19th-century Swedish businessman and chemist who invented dynamite and established the five Nobel Prizes. Though Nobel purists ...