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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bergengren, Erik. Alfred Nobel, the man and his work. London ; New York : Nelson, [1962] (OCoLC)576750044 |
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Named Person: | Alfred Bernhard Nobel; Alfred Bernhard Nobel; Alfred Bernhard Nobel; Alfred Bernhard Nobel |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Erik Bergengren |
OCLC Number: | 40359219 |
Description: | xviii, 222 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | The nobel name and ancestors -- Alfred Nobel's parents -- Alfred Nobel's childhood years in Sweden 1833-42 -- Early years with his father in Russia 1843-50 -- Effects of the Crimean War on the nobels' work -- Nitroglycerin is tamed -- The Heleneborg disaster -- The world's first nitroglycerin factory -- Progress and setbacks for a new industry -- Guhr dynamite -- Time of exploitation -- A world-wide industry is built up: The German companies -- The nobel companies in Scotland, England, and the colonies -- The French companies -- Rapid development in other countries -- Removal to Paris, 1873; Invention of blasting Gelatin, 1875 -- The Nobel Brothers' Naphtha production company in Russia. |
Responsibility: | by Erik Bergengren ; with a supplement on the Nobel institutions and the Nobel prizes by Nils K. Ståhle ; translated by Alan Blair. |
Abstract:
Factual biography based on information obtained from the Nobel Foundation archives.
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