Among his 355 patents is an 1887 one for ballistite, or smokeless powder
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Alfred Nobel - Tekniska museet  Alfred Nobel (1832-1898) is one of Sweden's most famous inventors. ... the inflatable rubber mattress among other things, but business did not go well. ... in Immanuel Nobel's new invention, a new kind of gunpowder-filled underwater mine. ... for the patent on his third major invention, ballistite, a smokeless propellant made...
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Alfred Nobel - Wikipedia  Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and ... Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. .... in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will. ... of ballistite, the precursor of many modern smokeless powder explosives and still...
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Short biography of Alfred Nobel  He was not popular in France (because of his smokeless powder business), and in ... multifaceted individual: an inventor (trained in chemistry, he had 355 patents in ... shed so that no more than one or two would be killed in an accident. .... In 1887. Nobel developed what he called ballistite, sometimes referred to as the...
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Biography: Alfred Nobel: Lord of Dynamite, Patron of Peace - Vision  One hundred years ago this year, the world's most prestigious scientific and ... At the age of nine Nobel and his family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, to join his ... in 1875, and in 1887 a smokeless blasting powder called ballistite, which influenced ... and synthetic rubber and leathermade Nobel the holder of 355 patents.
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List of Alfred Nobels Patents - Nobelprize.org  Here is a list of 29 Swedish and 58 English patents. ... (Ballistite or Nobel's gunpowder.) ... Progressive smokeless gunpowder and ways to prepare it. ... 1887. Patent number 16920. Safety explosives of copper ammonium nitrate for coal mines containing coal dust or explosive mine gases. ... (Alfred Nobel and his relatives.
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Wrigley.com :: Our Founder  ... a basket through the streets of Philadelphia, selling Wrigley's Scouring Soap. ... William Wrigley Jr. struck out on his own in the spring of 1891 when he was 29 years old. ... Rather than give up, William switched to the baking powder business. ... offering two free packages of chewing gum with each can of baking powder.
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History of Portland Cement - Concrete Thinker  In 1824, Joseph Aspdin, a British stone mason, obtained a patent for a cement he produced in his kitchen. The inventor heated a mixture of finely ground...
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Alexander Parkes - Wikipedia  Alexander Parkes (29 December 1813  29 June 1890) was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England. He created Parkesine, the first man-made plastic. ... In 1856, he patented Parkesine - the first thermoplastic - a celluloid based on ... Parkes' material was developed later in improved form as Xylonite by his...
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Patent US35380 - Improvement in breech-loading ordnance ...  Try the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and ... exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, ... owing to the little smoke produced, does not produce in the men working the ... re-enforce the gun is enabled to be used like ordinary guns for gunpowder.
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel | Swedish inventor | Britannica.com  May 17, 2016 ... Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist, who invented dynamite ... dependable explosive for use in mines was black powder, a form of gunpowder. ... Nobel's second important invention was that of dynamite in 1867. By chance, he discovered that nitroglycerin was absorbed to dryness by kieselguhr,...
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Nitroglycerine and Dynamite - Nobelprize.org  His first major invention was a blasting cap (igniter), a wooden plug filled with black gunpowder, ... He made one of his most important discoveries when he found that by mixing ... Try to save some patients and learn about human blood types!
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Jeopary Questions page 2115 - HIGH INTELLIGENCE - TriviaBistro ...  SHREW-ED: Continent where you'd find the shrews Crocidura nigeriae & Crocidura tansaniana  SHEER GENIUS!: Among his 355 patents is an 1887 one for...
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The Jiggly History of Jell-O - Today I Found Out  Jan 24, 2014 ... The story of this fruit-flavored, gelatin-based icon includes good ... of the first American-built steam locomotive  the Tom Thumb  Peter Cooper, ... He applied for and was granted a patent (US Patent 4084) for a gelatin dessert powder he ... Cooper didn't market it nor did much of anything with his invention.
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July 16, 1867: Concrete Gets Some Positive Reinforcement | WIRED  Jul 16, 2009 ... 1867: F. Joseph Monier patents a new construction material: reinforced ... Enter Monier, a French gardener looking for a better flower pot.
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Calibration Test  Category: the 1880s. In 1886 Charles M. Hall developed the electrolytic method for getting this metal from bauxite. Aluminum...
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Jeopary Questions page 2247 - EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT ...  1: Lettered in hoops, football & lacrosse at Syracuse & if you think he couldn't act, ask his 11 "unclean" buddies ... DEISGN: Henry Dreyfuss' "300" of 1937 was one of these with the mouthpiece and earpiece in a single bakelite shell.
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The Worst Inventor In History - KnowledgeNuts  Oct 3, 2013 ... Thomas Midgley was a renowned chemist and inventor who held over 100 ... untold havoc on the environment: leaded gasoline and Freon, the first CFC. ... tarnished since the full effects of his inventions are now understood. ... Midgley finally discovered that the addition of tetraethyl lead, or TEL, would...
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J. Franklin Hyde, 96, the 'Father of Silicones' - The New York Times  Oct 16, 1999 ... J. Franklin Hyde, a chemist who decades ago turned a useless ... in Corning, N.Y., in the 1930's when he created a chemical process and material called fumed silica; silica is a mineral found in sand that is used to make glass. ... for technology at Corning Inc., who worked with Dr. Hyde from 1941 to 1951.
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Teflon was Invented by Accident - Today I Found Out  Aug 26, 2011 ... The man who accidentally invented it was Dr. Roy Plunkett. ... According to DuPont, in 1938, 27 year old Dr. Plunkett and his assistant, Jack ... of the slipperiest substances known to man), non-corrosive, chemically stable, and that it ... It was also in the 1960s that Teflon began being used in its most publicly...
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Joseph Priestley, Discoverer of Oxygen National Historic Chemical ...  When Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774, he answered age-old ... He invented carbonated water and the rubber eraser, identified a dozen key ... Among them was the colorless and highly reactive gas he called "dephlogisticated air," to ... Finally in 1772, Daniel Rutherford found that when he burned material in a...
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J! Archive - Show #1474, aired 1991-01-17  When Henry Cavendish discovered this lightest-known element, he called it inflammable air ... "The One-Legged Governor of New Netherland"...