He considered the nitroglycerin made by his family unsafe, so he invented dynamite
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Alfred Nobel - Wikipedia  Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had ... The family was impoverished, and only Alfred and his three brothers ... There he met Ascanio Sobrero, who had invented nitroglycerin three years...
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The Dark Side of the Nobel Prizes | Alfred Nobel - Live Science  Oct 4, 2013 ... Though nitroglycerine was considered too unsafe to have any ... Nobel patented this invention as "dynamite," from the Greek word dunamis, or "power. ... Nonetheless, he found out what others thought of his invention ... and he was scorned for being the man who made millions through the deaths of others.
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Alfred Nobel - His Life and Work - Nobelprize.org  In 1837 Immanuel Nobel left Stockholm and his family to start a new career in Finland and in Russia. ... who, three years earlier, had invented nitroglycerine, a highly explosive liquid. ... It was considered too dangerous to be of any practical use. ... To be able to detonate the dynamite rods he also invented a detonator...
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Alfred Nobel's Life and Work - for Grade schoolers - Nobelprize.org  On October 21, 1833 a baby boy was born to a family in Stockholm, Sweden who was to become a famous scientist, inventor, businessman and founder ... He also made the Russian Tsar and his generals believe that sea mines could be ... It was considered too dangerous to be of practical use. ... Alfred Invents "Dynamite".
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel | Swedish inventor | Britannica.com  May 17, 2016 ... He was interested in explosives, and he learned the fundamentals ... Upon his return to St. Petersburg, Nobel worked in his father's factory, which made military equipment ... So dangerous, in fact, that Nobel's nitroglycerin factory blew up in ... Nobel's second important invention was that of dynamite in 1867.
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Fritz Haber: Jewish chemist whose work led to Zyklon B - BBC News  Apr 12, 2011 ... The German Jewish chemist Fritz Haber's astonishing career led to millions ... his work was developed under the Nazis to create the gas used to murder ... the Haber-Bosch process was born, making it possible to create huge...
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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 ... Four of the most important properties of this substance discovered were that it was...
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My grandma takes nitroglycerin pills for her heart. I was led ... - Reddit  Jun 8, 2015 ... I was led to believe that nitroglycerin is incredibly explosive. ... a milligram of nitroglycerin, meaning you wouldn't be able to get it to explode if you wanted to. ... with bare hands as nitroglycerin is incredibly easily absorbed, you will know if ..... Diluting them with more inert substances, even other more stable...
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Free Flashcards about INVENTORS-J - StudyStack  IN 1910 HIS NEW INVENTION HELPED SCOTLAND YARD CATCH A MURDERER ESCAPING TO NORTH .... IN THE 1890S HE TRIED COAL DUST AS A POWER SOURCE FOR HIS ENGINE BEFORE TRYING CRUDE FUEL OIL, DIESEL.
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Three Things To Know About Dynamite, The Reason We Have ...  Oct 1, 2016 ... You may know Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, and left his fortune to start ... But in fact, while TNT and dynamite are both explosives, they are different things. ... He called it dynamite after the Greek word for power, dynamis.
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Three Inventions of Thomas Midgley Jr, the First Geoengineer  Jan 26, 2010 ... In 1930, Midgley inhaled a lungful of Freon and then blew out a lit candle to ... He put lead in gasoline. ... GM, DuPont, Kettering, and Midgley also knew that lead in gasoline might ... containing it, Midgley went to work on the job of introducing the new ... We all bought into it but now we have to do better.
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On this day, Nov 25th, 1867, Alfred Nobel patented dynamite ...  In 1867, Nobel received U.S. patent number 78,317 for his dynamite. ... He also invented a blasting cap (detonator) also patented, which could be ignited by...
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Alfred Nobel - Life and Philosophy - Nobelprize.org  Dec 8, 1998 ... Alfred Nobel. ... have heard about the remarkable explosive called nitroglycerine. ... but he backed off from this assertion after a sharp letter from Alfred that ... coined the word dynamite from the Greek dynamis, meaning power.
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Garrett Morgan used gas mask invention to save lives | Share News  Garrett Morgan used gas mask invention to save lives ... Garrett Augustus Morgan, made history when he used one of his inventions (gas mask) to ... After these unsuccessful rescue attempts the authorities contacted Garrett Morgan and ... July 25, 1916, was also used by American military during the First World War and is...
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier The Chemical Revolution - Landmark ...  He proposed that the phlogiston of the charcoal had united with the calx. ... Combustion, he said, was the reaction of a metal or an organic substance with ... In 1766, Englishman Henry Cavendish isolated a gas that he called "inflammable air" ... a compound of oxygen and inflammable air, or hydrogen as it is now known.
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The explosive that became a heart medicine - io9  Nov 1, 2010 ... If nitroglycerin is an explosive, why don't people's hearts explode out of their ribcages like a chestburster ... For one thing, the substance comes in two different forms; solid and liquid. .... If they do have a copy editor he/she needs to be fired. .... Biologists Have Discovered Underground, Burrowing Tadpoles.
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Dynamite - Wikipedia  Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents and stabilizers. It was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in ... After its introduction, dynamite rapidly gained wide-scale use as a safe ... to change the name to dynamite, from the Ancient Greek word  dnamis, meaning "power".
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel | Swedish inventor | Britannica.com  May 17, 2016 ... In 1863 he invented a practical detonator consisting of a wooden plug ... Nobel's second important invention was that of dynamite in 1867.
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Inventor George Westinghouse Biography - The Great Idea Finder  The first air brake invented by George Westinghouse in 1869 revolutionized the ... 1885 he purchased a company to supply natural gas to thousands of homes in Pittsburgh ... and by promoting the use of electricity for power and transportation. ... The engineer could admit compressed air into the system to stop the train and...
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George Westinghouse facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ...  George Westinghouse (1846-1914), American inventor and manufacturer, made substantial contributions to railroad transportation safety and efficiency and to ... all air-brake apparatus standardized and interchangeable and later developed a ... his knowledge of compressed-air problems to the new natural-gas industry and...
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Nitroglycerin - Wikipedia  Nitroglycerin (NG), also known as nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin (TNG), trinitroglycerine, nitro, ... Nitroglycerin is available in sublingual tablets, sprays, and patches. ... Large quantities of nitroglycerin were manufactured during World War I and World ... In its pure form, nitroglycerin is a contact explosive, with physical shock...