Alfred Nobel and the dynamite

 Alfred Nobel was a Swedish industrialist, engineer, and inventor, and built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. His construction work inspired Nobel to research new methods of blasting rock. In 1860, Alfred Nobel first started experimenting with nitroglycerine,  a heavy, colorless, oily, explosive liquid.
 
  In 1863, Alfred Nobel invented the Nobel patent detonator. Itused a strong shock rather than heat combustion to ignite the explosives. The Nobel Company built the first factory to manufacture nitroglycerin and dynamite.
 
  Alfred Nobel discovered that mixing nitroglycerine with silica would turn the liquid into a malleable paste, called dynamite in 1866. One advantage of dynamite over nitroglycerin was that it could be cylinder-shaped for insertion into the drilling holes used for mining.

  In 1867, Alfred Nobel received a U.S patent for his dynamite and alsoimproved his detonator so that it could be ignited by lighting a fuse.

  In 1887, he was granted a French patent for blasting powder "ballistite".

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  When he died in 1896, Alfred Nobel left behind a nine million dollar endowment fund. The Nobel prize is awarded yearly to people whose work helps humanity. In total, Alfred Nobel held three hundred and fifty-five patents in the fields of electrochemistry, optics, biology, and physiology.