Industrial Age · Europe · Technology

1866

Nobel's Dynamite

1866

In a Swedish laboratory, Alfred Nobel discovered that nitroglycerin absorbed into kieselguhr could be handled, packed, and detonated safely. He patented it as dynamite. It would make him rich from mines and tunnels - and guilty enough, after a premature obituary called him a merchant of death, to leave his fortune to five annual prizes.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1865: Alice in Wonderland Published
After: April 1, 1867: Paris Exposition

Before and after in Technology

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Dynamit Nobel