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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Who invented dynamite?


Who invented dynamite?

Alfred Nobel, Swedish industrialist, engineer and inventor, built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. His construction work inspired Nobel to research new methods of blasting rock. In 1863, Alfred Nobel invented the Nobel paten detonator of blasting cap for detonating nitroglycerin and dynamite.

The Nobel patent detonator used a strong shock rather than heat combustion to ignite the explosives. In 1865, the Nobel Company built the first factory that made nitroglycerin and later dynamite.

One advantage of dynamite over nitroglycerin was that it could be cylinder-shaped for insertion into the drilling holes used for mining.


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