Alfred Nobel began his experiments with nitroglycerine in 1860, and in 1863 obtained his first patent on blasting oil to be used as an industrial explosive. It was at this time that he also developed and patented a blasting cap (igniter) to trigger the explosion of nitroglycerine. In 1864, Nobel's brother was killed in his Stockholm plant while preparing nitroglycerine, and in 1866 Nobel tries to make it safer to handle...
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Alfred Nobel began his experiments with nitroglycerine in 1860, and in 1863 obtained his first patent on blasting oil to be used as an industrial explosive. It was at this time that he also developed and patented a blasting cap (igniter) to trigger the explosion of nitroglycerine. In 1864, Nobel's brother was killed in his Stockholm plant while preparing nitroglycerine, and in 1866 Nobel tries to make it safer to handle...
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