Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896)‚ Swedish inventor and philanthropist‚ was a man of many contrasts. He was a son of a bankrupt‚ but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature. He made a large fortune but lived a simple life. He was cheerful in company‚ and often sad in private. A lover of mankind‚ he never had a wife or family to love him‚ a patriotic son of his native land‚ he died alone on foreign soil. He discovered a new explosive‚ dynamite‚ to improve the
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Good morning ‚ . Alfred Bernhard Nobel born on October 21 ‚1833 was a Swedish chemist‚ engineer‚ innovator‚ and armaments manufacturer. Nobel held 350 different patents‚ dynamite being the most famous. Born in Stockholm‚ Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ‚ and Andriette Nobel . Following various business failures‚ Nobel’s father moved to Saint Petersburg in 1837 and grew successful there as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives. He invented modern plywood and started work
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Never Thought It Would Happen: Never Thought It Would Happen Randy Lee PSY -202 Daniel French February 20‚ 2012 Never Thought It Would Happen Never Thought It Would Happen This is amazing to me‚ Looking back over
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Alfred Nobel Alfred Nobel was born on October 21‚ 1833 in Stockholm‚ Sweden. At the time of his birth‚ he was the fourth son of Immanuel and Caroline Nobel. Immanuel‚ his father‚ was an inventor and engineer who had married Caroline‚ his mother‚ in 1827. They had eight children‚ but only Alfred and three brothers reached adulthood. As a child Alfred was prone to illness‚ but this didn ’t interfere with his love of explosives and the fundamentals of engineering. He learned these things from his
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Informative Speech: Alfred Nobel Speech 1100 What would you say if one morning you wake up‚ read by mistake your own obituary‚ and see what people think about you? How would you like to be called:” the merchant of death‚ who built a fortune‚ by discovering new ways to mutilate and kill‚ is dead”. This happened to Alfred Nobel. The story is that when Alfred Nobel’s brother died‚ a French newspaper mistakenly published an obituary of Alfred. When he read this‚ he remained pained all of his life
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Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist‚ engineer‚ innovator‚ and armaments manufacturer. He was the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors‚ which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 350 different patents‚ dynamite being the most famous. He used his fortune to posthumously institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic
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ALFRED NOBEL Alfred Nobel is one the most accredited scientist and industrialist in history. With over 300 patents held‚ he has made numerous amounts of contributions to science. Although Alfred Nobel had accomplished many things‚ the most significant things he had done‚ in my opinion‚ was the creation of dynamite and his involvement in the establishment of the Nobel Prize. Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born on October 21‚ 1833 in Stockholm‚ Sweden. His family had descended from Olof Rudbeck‚ a well-known
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Humans have always had a fascination with flying since the beginning of time. Hot air balloons were invented in 1783‚ one step closer to the airplane. The balloon is filled with hot air‚ which makes the balloon fly to the air because hot air is lighter than cool air. The only problem with the hot air balloon was that you could not control the direction it was going. The first airplane was actually a glider. This aircraft was launched from a cliff or from any high place. It rode on the wind
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solved many problems. Yet other inventions were the cause of misery to the entire human kind. What about an invention that caused both joy and misery? It’s an invention that affects our world until this day. This invention is the Dynamite. Let me first introduce you to the inventor of the dynamite. The dynamite was invented by Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel in 1866. Let me now tell you how this dynamite affected the industrial era. It was created so it can be used in construction‚ mining and demolition
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Humankind is largely fed by food grown with synthetic chemical fertilizer and by explosives like Dynamite. Synthetic fertilizer requires a plentiful supply of nitrogen‚ inventing a process to fix it in ammonia was daunting. Attempts were made for over 100 years. Then in 1909 Fritz Haber‚ a German chemist‚ solved the problem in principal. In 1910‚ Carl Bosch‚ pioneering new engineering methods‚ commercialized the process. Known as the Haber-Bosch Process‚ it is now responsible for growing about half
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