Alfred Nobel himself was a talented inventor

It was people who donated 94% of their wealth to create the 'Nobel Prize' to honor the devotion to humanity - Alfred Nobel, nearly 150 years ago, was also a talented inventor. .

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the third child in the family with a tradition of engineering and chemistry.

Alfred Nobel

His father, Immanuel Nobel, who invented modern wood pressing technology and made torpedo improvements, helped Russia to have sea advantages in the Crimean War. His brother, Lugvic Nobel, oil magnate in Baku, successfully built containers and oil pipelines.

His family also owned a large factory that produced weapons for the Russian army in Helenborg, Stockholm. However, after the defeat of the Russian Empire during the Crimean war, Tsar Aleksandr II decided to cut down the military budget and this made Father Nobel's factory stand.
Some time later, Immanuel Nobel began to work on making nitroglycerin, a new chemical with great destructive power. He often studied with his sons at the factory. Even so, nitroglycerin is a chemical compound in liquid, explosive and very dangerous form. This led to the death of his brother Nobel, Emil Oskar Nobel, in a factory explosion when Emil tried to prepare nitroglycerin.

This inspired Alfred Nobel to find a way to make this chemical compound more safely. And after tireless attempts and dangers during the experiment, Alfred Nobel finally found a way to make nitroglycerin safe.

However, pure nitroglycerin is still very dangerous. Again, this problem prompted Nobel to find a way to make a new explosive from nitroglycerin in a safer form. Finally, in 1866, he successfully built Dynamite, a safe nitroglycerin explosive. After the announcement of this great invention, Nobel received a patent in England on May 7, 1867 and in Sweden on October 19, 1867. Degree of recognition of Nobel's nitroglycerin invention, in 1864.

Chemical laboratory. Illustration.

The first marketed Dynamite is a flexible mixture of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose. This explosive is sold as a 20cm long stick, 2.5cm diameter or some other size, triggered by a conduit. By 1868, Alfred Nobel replaced nitrocellulose with diatomaceous earth (another name: sponge) as a semiconductor. This innovation has made Dynamite more stable and widely used in construction and mining. Later, he invented a number of nitroglycerin gunpowder, among them ballistite, a smokeless gunpowder.

These inventions and his brothers' exploitation of Baku wells gave him tremendous profits.

In 1888, a French newspaper confused Nobel with the death of his brother, Lugvic Nobel. The obituary 'The Dead Merchant' wrote: ' Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich after inventing a way to kill people faster than ever, passed away yesterday .' This is said to be the main reason for Nobel's depression in the last years of his life and made him decide to donate 94% of his assets (about 4.22 million USD at that time) to found the 'Prize. Nobel 'aims to honor creative contributions to humanity.

Alfred Nobel died on December 10, 1896 in Sanremo, Italy, due to a stroke. Years after his death, there was still controversy about the dynamite use of dynamite as well as its destruction during the war. But it is undeniable that Nobel's dynamite has released human labor, making great strides in road construction as well as mining.