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Updated January 13, Cite this Article Format. Bellis, Mary. Alfred Nobel and the History of Dynamite. Biography of Alfred Nobel, Inventor of Dynamite.
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November Calendar of Famous Inventions and Birthdays. This made it possible for it to be placed in holes drilled in rock. Nobel also designed a blasting cap for dynamite that could be ignited by lighting a fuse. Dynamite was much safer to transport than nitroglycerin, and it became widely used as a safer mining explosive.
Toggle navigation. Dynamite - History of Dynamite. Dynamite Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel, a chemist from Sweden, in The material that Alfred Nobel mixed with nitroglycerin to form dynamite was "diatomaceous earth", which is a soft rock mostly made of fossilized algae. It is still used in many products, for example, kitty litter. Dynamite is often confused with another explosive known as "TNT".
Attempting to create a safe explosive in , Ascanio Sobrero carefully heated a drop of nitroglycerine, a compound derived from heating glycerol with concentrated nitric and sulfuric acid, in a glass test tube.
Sobrero, who initially wanted to use the explosive for peaceful purposes, destroyed his notes to keep his invention a secret. When Charles Crocker and James Strotbridge shipped nitroglycerine crates to a construction company in San Francisco in , the crate exploded resulting in the death of 15 people. Outraged with the catastrophe, the Californian legislature confiscated all private stocks of nitroglycerine and banned its transportation within the State.
When Alfred Nobel attempted to stabilize nitroglycerine, he succeeded in producing a powerful, yet, safe explosive that he named dynamite. Nobel obtained patents for his invention: in England on 7 May , and in Sweden on 19 October He originally sold dynamite as "Nobel's Blasting Powder". Later on, he developed a safe, cheap, efficient storage means for his dynamite powder.
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