Alfred Nobel Inventor of Dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator and armaments manufacturer famed for his invention of dynamite.
Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1833. He learned the basic principles of explosives from his father at a young age and at school, he excelled at chemistry and languages. In addition to his native tongue, he went on to become fluent in French, German, English and Russian. 48
At the age of 18, he went to the United States and studied chemistry for four years. He later returned to Sweden, devoting himself to the study of explosives, in particular, the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine.
Nobel filed his first patent, for a gas meter, in 1857. He invented a detonator in 1863 and in 1865, designed the blasting cap; a small sensitive primary explosive device generally used to detonate a larger, more powerful and less sensitive secondary explosive. October 2021
