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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nobel Peace Prize originated from the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor known for inventing dynamite. In his will, written in 1895, Nobel specified that a portion of his fortune should ...