What exactly is the difference between TNT and dynamite? The answer takes us through centuries of explosive technology, from black powder to nitroglycerin and the inventions of Alfred Nobel. Along the ...
The Swedish inventor was a poet, polyglot and avid reader, and his personal tragedy changed his work with explosions ...
You probably know the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel as the founder of the Nobel Prize and the inventor of dynamite, but he created even more than that over his lifetime, with 355 patents in his name by ...
A dozen patents belonging to Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel and lost for almost 50 years were recently found in a Swedish couple's summer house, the Nobel Foundation told AFP.