Author:Alfred Nobel
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Works
[edit]- 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
- nemesis
Patents
[edit]Canada
[edit]- Canadian patent 6869, "Improvements on explosive compounds", issued December 12, 1876. (external scan)
- Canadian patent 13683, "Improvements on explosive compounds", issued November 11, 1881. (external scan)
- Canadian patent 13684, "Improvements on explosive compounds", issued November 11, 1881. (external scan)
- Canadian patent 26700, "Explosive and use of explosives in shells and torpedoes", issued May 12, 1887. (external scan)
- Canadian patent 30707, "Manufacture of explosives", issued February 5, 1889. (external scan)
- Canadian patent 37433, "Manufacture and application of explosive compounds", issued September 18, 1891. (external scan)
- Canadian patent 52835, "Gas-check for projectiles", issued July 7, 1896, filed January 29, 1896. (external scan)
Denmark
[edit]Finland
[edit]- 1864-12-09, FI77: Tillverkning av nitroglycerin och andra analoga ämnen
- 1868-02-07, FI95: Blandingar av nitroglycerin med porösa icke exploderande ämnen
France
[edit]- November 28, 1887, primary patent 181179 for blasting powder "ballistite" in France.
Russia
[edit]- 1877, a ten-year Russian patent "to produce new solid explosive substances from liquid explosives"
Sweden
[edit]- 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")
- September 19, 1867, Swedish patent for Dynamite
UK
[edit]- May 7 1867, GB1345 British patent for Dynamite
- 1895-04-18, GB189512384: Improvements in Gas Checks for Projectiles.
- 1896-04-11, GB189511346: Improvements in Forging Tubular Metallic Pieces.
- United Kingdom patent 27197, "An Improved Manufacture of Explosive Compounds", issued Nov. 30, 1897, filed Nov. 30, 1896. (external scan)
United States
[edit]- 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 14, 1963, Method of preparing gunpowder for both blasting and shooting
- United States patent 50617, "Improved substitute for gunpowder", issued Oct 24, 1865. (external scan)
- United States patent RE3377, "improved mode of exploding nitro-glycerine", issued April 13, 1869. (external scan)
- United States patent RE3378, "Improved mode of exploding nitro-glycerine", issued April 13, 1869. (external scan)
- United States patent RE3379, "Improved device for manufacturing nitro-glycerine", issued April 13, 1869. (external scan)
- United States patent RE3380, "Improvement in the use of nitro-glycerine", issued April 13, 1869. (external scan)
- United States patent RE4815, "Improvement in methods of exploding nitro-glycerine", issued March 19, 1872. (external scan)
- United States patent RE4816, "Improvement in exploding nitro-glycerine", issued March 19, 1872. (external scan)
- United States patent RE4817, "Improvement in the manufacture of nitro-glycerine", issued March 19, 1872. (external scan)
- United States patent RE4818, "Improvement in useful compounds containing nitro-glycerine", issued March 19, 1872. (external scan)
- United States patent RE4819, "Improvement in nitro-glycerine compounds", issued March 19, 1872. (external scan)
- United States patent RE5619, "Improvement in explosive compounds", issued October 21, 1873, filed October 14, 1873. (external scan)
- United States patent RE5620, "Improvement in exploding nitro-glycerine.", issued October 21, 1873, filed October 14, 1873. (external scan)
- United States patent RE5621, "Improvement in methods of exploding nitro-glycerine", issued October 21, 1873, filed October 14, 1873. (external scan)
- United States patent RE5798, "Improvements in methods of exploding nitro-glycerine", issued March 17, 1874, filed March 11, 1874. (external scan)
- United States patent RE5799, "Improvement in explosive compounds", issued March 17, 1874, filed March 11, 1874. (external scan)
- United States patent RE5800, "Improvement in exploding nitro-glycerine", issued March 17, 1874, filed March 11, 1874. (external scan)
- United States patent 57175, "Improved explosive compound", issued August 14, 1866. (external scan)
- United States patent RE2537, "Improved explosive compound", issued Apr 2, 1867. (external scan)
- United States patent RE2538, "Improved process of producing an explosive compound", issued April 2, 1867. (external scan)
- United States patent RE3381, "Improvement in the manufacture of nitrine or crystalizing nitro-glycerine", issued April 13, 1869. (external scan)
- United States patent RE3382, "Improved process of manufacturing nitro-glycerine", filed April 13, 1869. (external scan)
- United States patent 78317, "Improved explosive compound", issued May 26, 1868. (external scan) (U.S. patent for Dynamite)
- United States patent RE10267, "Explosive compound", issued January 9, 1883, filed December 12, 1882. (external scan)
- United States patent 141455, "Improvement in explosive compounds", issued August 5, 1873, filed June 3, 1973. (external scan)
- United States patent 175735, "Improvement in gelatinated explosive compounds", issued April 4, 1876, filed March 15, 1876. (external scan)
- United States patent 231348, "Primer for blasting-charges.", issued August 17, 1880, filed April 7, 1880. (external scan)
- United States patent 310147, "Manufacture of anhydrous sulphuric acid", with Georges Fahrenbach, issued Dec 30, 1884, filed Aug 15, 1884. (external scan)
- United States patent 456508, "Celluloidal explosive and process of making the same", issued July 21, 1891, filed March 22, 1889. (external scan)
- United States patent 515500, "Means for generating gases under pressure for obtaining motive power", issued February 27, 1894, filed July 29, 1892. (external scan)
- United States patent 563609, "Gas check for projectiles", issued July 7, 1896, filed July 27, 1895. (external scan)
- United States patent 575163, "Shell-fuse", issued January 12, 1897, filed September 15, 1896. (external scan)
- United States patent 599472, "Mechanism for forging hollow shafts, guns, or other similar metallic articles", issued February 22, 1898, filed July 25, 1895. (external scan)
Works about Nobel
[edit]- Obituary printed prematurely, 1888 after his brother Ludvig's death
- "Nobel, Alfred Bernhard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "The Nobel Prizes for the Promotion of Peace" by Dorothy Dudley Leal, edited by William Fayal Clarke, in St. Nicholas, Vol. 40, No. 9 (July 1913)
- The Life of Alfred Nobel, 1929 by H Schock And R Sohlman.IA
- Nobel: The Man and his Prizes, 1950 by H Schock And R Sohlman.IA
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