This Swede came up with a dynamite invention & patented it in 1867
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Dynamite - Wikipedia  Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents and ... Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel and was the ... Nobel obtained patents for his invention in England on 7 May 1867, in Sweden on 19 October 1867. ... got around the patent by using a slightly different formula.
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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. ... Nobel invented dynamite in 1867, a substance easier and safer to handle than the...
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Nobel Invents Dynamite: 1866 - Then Again  May 2, 1997 ... Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and a very skillful entrepreneur and ... The new material was patented in 1867 under the name "dynamite." He also invented a blasting cap (detonator) also patented, which could be...
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel | Swedish inventor | Britannica.com  May 17, 2016 ... Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist, who invented dynamite and ... Nobel's second important invention was that of dynamite in 1867. ... powerful form of dynamite, blasting gelatin, which he patented the following year.
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List of Alfred Nobels Patents - Nobelprize.org  Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, entrepreneur and business man Alfred Nobel ... He invented dynamite and experimented in making synthetic rubber, leather and ... 1867. Patent number 102. Dynamite or Nobel's gunpowder. 1876. Patent...
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John Edvard Lundstrm - Wikipedia  Johan Edvard Lundstrm (18151888) was a Swedish industrialist and inventor who ... After some years of exposure they could get infected from the poisonous ... they would only ignite on the striking surface on the box, nowhere else would the ... What links here  Related changes  Upload file  Special pages  Permanent...
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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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The Invention of the Elevator Brake Made Skyscrapers Possible ...  Elisha Graves Otis didn't invent the elevator, he invented something perhaps more ... There he worked as a master mechanic in the bedstead factory of O. Tingley ... during that time invented and put into use a railway safety brake, which could be ... From ancient times through the Middle Ages, and into the 13th century, man...
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Alfred Nobel - Wikipedia  Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and ... The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. ... returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and .... but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for "power" ().
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Joseph Monier | French inventor | Britannica.com  French gardener, one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete. ... of technical training, he showed a remarkable intuitive grasp of the new material. ... in building construction: The invention of reinforced concrete ... But reinforced concrete development began with the French gardener Joseph Monier's 1867 patent for...
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Swedish-Led Artic Expedition in a Balloon Led to a Tragic End ...  The Greatest Airshow on Earth ... Few people in 1897 had experience in polar travel. ... Returning to Sweden in the fall, Andre became acquainted with the Arctic regions ... point of our flight and looked right down into the deep,' Andre later noted. ... Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and donor of the Nobel prizes,...
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What Was Done Before Dynamite Was Invented? | The Classroom ...  Dynamite was invented by Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in the late 19th century as a safe way of using nitroglycerin as a demolition agent. ... Nobel stabilized nitroglycerin by mixing it with diatomaceous earth, the fossilized ... The glycerol was a byproduct of soap-making using animal and vegetable fats.
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Jacob Schick Invents the Electric Razor  Today in History: May 13 ...  On May 13, 1930, Colonel Jacob Schick obtained patent No. 1757978 for his dry electric shaver. The idea of creating an electric razor came to him while he. ... doing some gold exploration in Alaska and British Columbia in the early 1910s.
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Elevator History - Invention of the Elevator - The Great Idea Finder  Mar 26, 2007 ... With his installation of the first safe elevator in 1853 he literally started the ... 1861 receives patent for improvements to hoisting apparatus, safety brake ... Over the centuries, mankind has employed ingenious forms of lifting. .... Elisha Otis inducted 1988 for his invention Improvement in Hoisting Apparatus...
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The explosive that became a heart medicine - io9  Nov 1, 2010 ... So stable that it was possible to include it in the mass manufacturing of dynamite. It was during that process that factory workers noticed a...
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Sweden facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports that in 2005 Sweden's gross .... Forestry and farming are interdependent everywhere except in the most fertile ...... (170544), who devised the temperature scale named after him; the chemist Karl ... Swedish inventors who have done much to promote manufacturing and...
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THOMAS EDISON'S INVENTIONS  Radically improved stock tickers and patented several associated inventions, among which were the Universal Stock Ticker and the Unison Device. ... 1876-1877 Invented the carbon telephone transmitter "button", which finally made...
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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 Geesthacht, and patented in 1867.
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Timeline of United States inventions (18901945) - Tampa Patent ...  Shredded wheat is a type of breakfast cereal made from whole wheat. ... Perky of Watertown, New York. ... brine, and was Herbert Henry Dow's second revolutionary process for ... It was invented and patented in 1892 by William Painter of Baltimore, ...... businesses, and private individuals use shredders to destroy private,...
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A timeline of inventions - Telegraph  Jul 6, 2000 ... In 1901 a London-based engineer named Hubert Booth saw a new ... Booth's design, with the filter in front of the vacuum section, was not the ... He came up with a machine with an electric fan that dumped the dust into a pillowcase. ..... The first practical, popular brassire to receive a patent was invented by...
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William Kelly | American inventor | Britannica.com  American ironmaster who invented the pneumatic process of steelmaking, in which ... he became convinced that air blown through molten iron not only would remove ... When Kelly heard of Bessemer's patents, he filed a priority claim and in 1857 ... enough financial aid to enable him to build a steel plant in Wyandotte, Mich.