Author:Alfred Nobel

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Alfred Nobel (1833–1896)

See biography, media, quotes, indexes. Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes.

[edit] Works

• Last Will and Testament[1][2]
• Birthday telegram to Victor Hugo, 1885
• Letters to Bertha von Suttner+
• A Riddle, 1851, poem beginning "You say I am a riddle..."
• Night-thoughts, poetry

[edit] Patents

• 1857, September 29 - Improved apparatus for measuring gas
• 1859, Improved apparatus for measuring water and other liquids
• 1859, an improved design for a barometer or manometer
• October 1863, Swedish patent for percussion detonator - the "Nobel lighter," - later knowns as a blasting cap
• 1863, Swedish patent for the preparation of nitroglycerin (originally called "blasting oil")
• October 14, 1963, Method of preparing gunpowder for both blasting and shooting
• 1864-12-09, FI77: Tillverkning av nitroglycerin och andra analoga ämnen
• Oct 24, 1865, U.S. Patent No. 50,617[3]: Improved Substitute for Gunpowder
• Aug 16, 1866, U.S. Patent No. 57,175: Improved Explosive Compound.
• Apr 2, 1867, U.S. Patent No. 57,175: Improved Explosive Compound.
  • Reissue No. 2,537 - Improved Explosive Compound.
  • Reissue No. 2,538 - Division B: Improved Process of Producing an Explosive Compound
• May 7 1867, GB1345 British patent for Dynamite
• September 19, 1867, Swedish patent for Dynamite
• 1868-02-07, FI95: Blandingar av nitroglycerin med porösa icke exploderande ämnen
• May 26, 1868, U.S. Patent No. 78,317: Improved Explosive Compound. (U.S. patent for Dynamite)
• Apr 16, 1869, U.S. Patent No. 50,617: Improved Substitute for Gunpowder.
  • Reissue No. 3,377 - Division A: Improved Mode of Exploding Nitro-Glycerine.
  • Reissue No. 3,378 - Division B: Improved Mode of Exploding Nitro-Glycerine.
  • Reissue No. 3,379 - Division C: Improved Device for Manufacturing Nitro-Glycerine.
  • Reissue No. 3,380 - Division D: Improvement in the use of Nitro-Glycerine.
• Apr 13, 1869, U.S. Patent No. 57,175: Improved Explosive Compound.
  • Reissue No. 3,381 - Division 1: Improvement in the Manufacture of Nitrine or Crystallizing Nitro-Glycerine
  • Reissue No. 3,382 - Division 2: Improved Process for Manufacturing Nitro-Glycerine.
• Mar 19,1872, U.S. Patent No. 50,617: Improved Substitute for Gunpowder.
  • Reissue No. 4,815 - Division A: Improvement in Methods of Exploding Nitro-Glycerine.
  • Reissue No. 4,816 - Division B: Improvement in Exploding Nitro-Glycerine.
  • Reissue No. 4,817 - Division C: Improvement in the Manufacture of Nitro-Glycerine.
  • Reissue No. 4,818 - Division D: Improvement in Useful Compounds Containing Nitro-Glycerine.
  • Reissue No. 4,819 - Division E: Improvement in Nitro-Glycerine Compounds.
• Aug 5, 1873, US Patent 141455: Improvement in Explosive Compounds.
• Oct 21, 1873, U.S. Patent No. 50,617: Improved Substitute for Gunpowder.
  • Reissue No. 5,619 - Improvement in Explosive Compounds.
  • Reissue No. 5,620 - Improvement in exploding Nitro-Glycerine.
  • Reissue No. 5,621 - Improvement in Methods of Exploding Nitro-Glycerine.
• Mar 17, 1874, U.S. Patent No. 50,617: Improved Substitute for Gunpowder.
  • Reissue No. 5,798 - Improvement in Methods of Exploding Nitro-Glycerine.
  • Reissue No. 5,799 - Improvement in Explosive Compounds.
  • Reissue No. 5,800 - Improvement in exploding Nitro-Glycerine.
• 1876, Gelignite, or blasting gelatin as it was called
• Mar 15, 1876, U.S. Patent No. 175,735: Improvement in Gelatinated Explosive Compounds.
• 1877, a ten-year Russian patent "to produce new solid explosive substances from liquid explosives"
• Aug 17, 1880, U.S. Patent No. 231,348: Primer for Blasting-Charges.
• 1881, Nov. 11, CA 13683: IMPROVEMENTS ON EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS
• Dec 30, 1884, U.S. Patent No. 310,147: Manufacture of Anhydrous Sulphuric Acid. (with Georges Fahrenbach)
• May 12, 1887, CA 26700: EXPLOSIVE AND USE OF EXPLOSIVES IN SHELLS AND TORPEDOES
• November 28, 1887, primary patent 181179 for blasting powder "ballistite" in France.
• Mar 22, 1889, U.S. Patent No. 456,508: Celluloidal Explosive and Process of Making the Same.
• Sep. 18, 1891, CA 37433: MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION OF EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS
• Jul 29, 1892, U.S. Patent No. 515,500: Means for generating gases under pressure for obtaining motive power.
• 1895-04-18, GB189512384: Improvements in Gas Checks for Projectiles.
• Jul 27, 1895, U.S. Patent No. 563609: Gas-Check For Projectiles.
• 1896-04-11, GB189511346: Improvements in Forging Tubular Metallic Pieces.
• 1896-11-23, DK819C: Projektil med radielt paavirket Tätningsring.
• Jan 12, 1897, U.S. Patent No, 575,163: Shell-Fuse.
• 1897-11-30, GB189627197: An Improved Manufacture of Explosive Compounds.
• Feb 22, 1898, U.S. Patent No. 599,472: Mechanism for Forging Hollow Shafts, or Other Similar Articles.

[edit] Works about Nobel

• Obituary printed prematurely, 1888 after his brother Ludvig's death
• Nobel, Alfred Bernhard in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• The Life of Alfred Nobel, 1929 by H Schock And R Sohlman.[4]
• Nobel: The Man and his Prizes, 1950 by H Schock And R Sohlman.[5]

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