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hle nobel ag, dynamit nobel, and buderus, and the deutsche bank ag. the group
mainly automobile manufacturing. dynamit nobel has ten production plants in germany. the principal foreign subsidiaries are in
since 1959, after becoming a part of the flick group, the company has been called dynamit nobel ag. dynamit nobel operates in selected markets of chemistry and technology. explosive chemistry continues to be one of the firm
hle, ernst grosch of dynamit nobel, and dr. wolfgang laaf of buderus. all three subsidiaries are legally independent
in 1968 that the nobel family would not allow it to be named a nobel prize .
chemetall is integrated into dynamit nobel, which becomes part of metallgesellschaft (later renamed into “mg technologies”) in the same year .
the profile of alfred nobel appears on the side of the nobel peace center in oslo, norway .
s main fields of activity. in the field of special chemistry, dynamit nobel has applied its experience in treating hazardous chemical reactions to the development and production of added - value organic intermediates. with its years of tradition and quality, dynamit nobel is one of the world
inconclusive negotiations between the claims conference and the flick concern regarding compensation of former forced laborers who worked for dynamit nobel, a flick subsidiary .
s chemical interests were focused on dynamit nobel. kyocera europa elektronische bauelemente gmbh at plochingen was founded as a joint venture with the kyocera corporation of
in 1885, nobel succeeded in uniting three of his largest competitors in the explosives market with dynamit ag to form the deutsche union. dr. gustav aufschl
alfred nobel is born in stockholm, sweden. in the same year, his father  immanuel nobel  goes bankrupt .
nobel - dynamite trust co (london, uk) is formed by merging dag and the nobel' s explosives company .
page one of alfred bernhard nobel' s four - page will. the document contains the source of the nobel prizes .
mg technologies divest their specialty chemicals business. as part of the mg chemical group dynamit nobel, chemetall is acquired by rockwood specialties, inc, effective august, 1st .
alfred nobel improves the blasting cap design and moves to germany to set up the alfred nobel & co factory in krümmel near hamburg .
marta helena nobel - oleinikoff (russian: марта людвиговна нобель - олейникова), née marta helena nobel (9 october 1881, saint petersburg – 1973, stockholm), was a swedish - russian physician and philanthropist and member of the nobel family. she was the daughter of industrialist and humanitarian ludvig nobel and the niece of alfred nobel .
in 1886, the nobel dynamite trust company was formed by the british and german nobel companies and a number of independent german dynamite producers .
this factory complex (alfred nobel dynamit aktion gesellschaft) was built in 1939 and was also used as subcamp for the gross rosen concentration camp. it was blown up in 1945 .
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dyno nobel is a leading supplier of industrial explosives and blasting services to the mining, quarrying, seismic and construction industries. visit dyno nobel .
since 2004 dynamit nobel defence is an independent corporation which emerged from the dynamit nobel ag. from the beginning of the last century our location in burbach - würgendorf belonged to the alfred nobel group, where also the classical dynamite - invented by nobel - was manufactured. the defence activities of the enterprise were concentrated here at the beginning of the years 2000 and from this site we supply today our products to ministries and governments worldwide. of course, all our business is subject to the strict export regulations of our federal government .
orica will form three international explosives joint ventures. it will take 49% in a venture with dynamit nobel (troisdorf, germany) to develop and manufacture electronic detonators worldwide... .
nobel establishes the british dynamite company (ardeer, scotland, uk). in 1877 the company name is changed to nobel' s explosives company .
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an entirely new industry grew up, based on nobel' s patents and with nobel as the initiator. within ten years, 16 explosives producing factories had been founded in 14 countries with nobel as shareholder or co - owner .
in 1863, nobel invented the nobel patent detonator or blasting cap for detonating nitroglycerin. the detonator used a strong shock rather than heat combustion to ignite the explosives. the nobel company built the first factory to manufacture nitroglycerin and dynamite .
…the swedish inventor and industrialist alfred nobel. the nobel prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world. to browse nobel prize winners alphabetically, chronologically, and by prize, see below. …
these four companies were founded before nobel had invented dynamite. the companies were based on nobel' s patent for the method of industrially manufacturing
blasting oil
and for its safe detonation by nobel' s invention of the detonating cap .
* ragnhild lundström is professor emeritus at the institute of economic history, uppsala university, sweden. she has written a thesis about alfred nobel' s companies entitled alfred nobel som internationell företagare (alfred nobel as international industrialist), 1974 .
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for the nobel prizes. that year alfred’s brother ludvig had died while staying in
ger became chairman of the management board in 1889. as a result of nobel
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in the nobel dynamite trust, nobel held 6 percent of the shares, in the latin trust, 2 percent. he was made an honorary president of the nobel dynamite trust co. which implied that he would not take active part in the company' s affairs. nobel was happy, he could now retreat to his research .
but the origins of the nobel prizes, and the life of alfred nobel, tell a very different story, one tainted by the deaths of untold thousands of people .
a discussion of alfred nobel, fritz haber, and the social responsibility of chemists .
* birgitta lemmel was head of information of the nobel foundation in 1986 - 1996 .
the crimean war rages. the nobel company flourishes at first, but goes bankrupt as the war ends and the russian military cancels orders. alfred nobel searches desperately for new products. nikolai n. zinin, nobel' s chemistry teacher, reminds him of nitroglycerin .
on the occasion of the planned sale of the shares in dynamit nobel by the flick concern to deutsche bank, the claims conference renews its demand for compensation, which leads to payment of 5 million dm to the former forced laborers .
alfred nobel hires ragnar sohlman, who he later names executor of his will and testament .
alfred nobel dies at his home in san remo, italy, on 10 december 1896 .
the nobel prizes were established by none other than inventor alfred nobel. but besides being the namesake behind one of the most prestigious awards given annually for academic, cultural and scientific achievements, nobel is also well - known for making it possible for people to blow things up .
emil, alfred nobel' s brother, is killed during the preparation of nitroglycerin at heleneborg, stockholm. nobel continues his experiments and forms the company nitroglycerin ab in stockholm, sweden .
barbe became a shareholder in the germany company, now renamed dynamit ag or dag. nobel' s german partners, who already owned a considerable part of the shares in the italian company, also became shareholders in the french and swiss companies .
chentechnik gmbh; buderus sell gmbh; edelstahlwerke buderus aktiengesellschaft; buderus handel gmbh; logana - speditionsgesellschaft mbh; tbg mittelhessische lieferbeton gmbh & co kg; senkingwerk gmbh; wetzlarer bauverein gmbh; buderus corporation (u. s. a .); buderus austria ag heiateduik gmbh; edelstahlwerke buderus nederland b. v. (netherlands); dynamit nobel aktiengesellschaft; sprengstoff - handels - gesellschaft mbh; sprengstoff - verwartungs - gesellschaft mbh; vereinigte jute spinnereien und weboreien gmbh; eurodyn sprengmittel - gesellschaft mbh; sprengmittelvertrieb in beyern gmbh; menzolit gmbh; dynamit nobel rws inc. (u. s. a .); leslie hewett ltd, (u. k .); bedec chasse s. a. (france); dynamit nobel ib
the third and final will of alfred nobel is signed at the swedish - norwegian club in paris .
hle nobel ag. heribert blaschke was named as chairman of the board. his three colleagues on feno
we can only speculate about the reasons for nobel’s establishment of the prizes that bear his name. he was
statue in memory of alfred nobel at the dynamite factory in krümmel - victory of technology over natural forces .
s shareholding in dynamit nobel was taken over by the parent organization, the flick group. at the end of the 1970s an extensive rationalization and expansion program was carried out. it was planned that each product should be assigned to the most cost - efficient production source. by 1984 feldm
. after numerous fatal accidents had taken place, greater precautionary measures were taken in handling the dangerous product. nobel
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nobel was reportedly stunned by what he read, and as a result became determined to do something to improve his legacy. one year before he died in 1896, nobel signed his last will and testament, which set aside the majority of his vast estate to establish the five nobel prizes, including one awarded for the pursuit of peace .
partly as a result, israel gets nuclear - capable submarines from the germans, as well as any other weapons it wants. this time the israelis wanted more modern launchers for rocket - propelled grenades and anti - armor weapons, made by dynamit nobel defence near the western german town of siegen .
alfred nobel leaves paris and settles in san remo, italy, after a dispute with the french government over ballistite .
. upon his return to st. petersburg, nobel worked in his father’s factory, which made military equipment during the
as early as 1878, barbe had suggested a meerger of all the nobel companies. however, the time was not yet ripe. nobel had been but mildly interested, and the then manager of the british company had been directly adverse to the idea. for several years nobel continued to believe that his new invention, blasting gelatine, would eliminate competition .
. later, when the union called for a work stoppage in the key sectors, other workers spontaneously joined the strike. at dynamit nobel in troisdorf, the action began with a spontaneous walkout on the part of skilled workers in the explosives factories. at clouth - gummiwerken in cologne, where the strike lasted
alfred nobel buys a small machine works (bofors - gullspång) and a manor (björkborn) at karlskoga, sweden .
the prospects seemed most promising in scotland where nobel had managed to interest some industrialists and merchants. the negotiations lasted for three years which was due mostly to the fact that nobel' s and the scottish financiers' terms were difficult to reconcile. nobel wanted a larger share in the company than the scots were willing to cede. this was solved by a compromise .
the last page of alfred bernhard nobel' s will, which he signed in paris on nov. 27, 1895 .
sseldorf produces paper and technical ceramics, dynamit nobel ag in troisdorf manufactures explosives and plastics, and buderus ag in wetzlar, which manufactures specialty steel and foundry products, is one of the leading manufacturers in the heating - technology and machine - tool engineering sectors. each of the three feno subsidiaries has a long tradition of independent industrial production .
nobel developed dynamite in the 1860s by combining liquid nitroglycerin with an inert porous material such as charcoal or diatomaceous earth. nitroglycerin plasticizes collodion (a form of nitrocellulose) to form blasting gelatin, a very powerful explosive. nobel’s discovery of this action led to the development…
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in 1885, nobel did not own above 6 percent in any company except the british one, where he held 25 percent. nobel, as well as the british nobel company, was forced to rely on negotiations to get the trust company formed. the negotiations lasted for more than two years. first after sizeable concessions on the part of the british company were the german companies willing to enter into agreements .
nobel' s german partner would have preferred to expand the german firm into a large exporting company. nobel, however, had other visions. he obtained patents on dynamite in several countries and set out to find capitalists willing to back the start of production in these countries .
on october 21, 1833, alfred bernhard nobel was born in stockholm, sweden. his family moved to st. petersburg in russia when he was nine years old. nobel prided himself on the many countries he lived in during his lifetime and considered himself a world citizen .
hle nobel (feno) has existed only since 1986. feno is the legal successor to friedrich flick industriever waltung kgaa, which became an
for more than 100 years, the nobel prizes have recognized the finest in human achievements, from literature and science to the nobel peace prize, which is given
to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses ,
according to the last will and testament of founder alfred nobel .
alfred bernhard nobel was born in 1833 in stockholm, sweden. his father, immanuel nobel, was an inventor and engineer who struggled financially for much of his life. forced to declare bankruptcy, immanuel left sweden and began working in st. petersburg, russia, where he impressed the czar ith one of his inventions — submerged explosive mines that could thwart a naval invasion. [ quiz: test your nobel knowledge ]
in the years before the outbreak of world war i, dynamit ag made several significant discoveries and improvements, such as nobelit, involving the addition of effervescent materials to the explosive for which a patent was applied in 1903 .
nobel registered a private firm in his own name and later was joined by his solicitor as partner. both partners put up capital in the firm. nobel borrowed most of his capital by using his shares in the swedish company as collateral and, in addition, he invested the cash he had received from the norwegian company. he needed the capital for his german firm. alfred nobel owned 57 percent in the german firm .
nobel' s and barbe' s share in the french and swiss companies diminished, but nobel' s german partners lost the majority they had held in the old german firm, at the time by far the largest continental dynamite company, with profits exceeding all the other companies combined .
…1867 by the swedish physicist alfred nobel. dynamite is based on nitroglycerin but is much safer to handle than nitroglycerin alone. by mixing the nitroglycerin with kieselguhr, a porous siliceous earth, in proportions that left an essentially dry and granular material, nobel produced a solid that was resistant to shock…
immanuel nobel travels to finland and then to st petersburg, russia, where he starts a mechanical workshop; he leaves his family behind in sweden .
alfred nobel invents blasting gelatine in paris and patents it in 1876. he establishes société générale pour la fabrication de la dynamite in paris, france .
, near varmland, that became the nucleus of the well - known bofors arms factory. besides explosives, nobel made many other inventions, such as
which was developed by dynamit nobel, and an highly advanced optical sight for targeting. but it was the weapon’s firing mechanism which really set it apart from other assault rifles, as well as being a fine example of german engineering. as each bullet would be rotated 90 degress before it was fired off, a complex process which worked very well and gave the gun a high rate of fire
england is a jewel worth the rest of the world. a dynamite company there would have the entire empire as its market ,
wrote nobel .
, a swede who later became sponsor of the nobel prize, founded this company in 1865. as a result of his technochemical studies of nitroglycerine he invented
before all that, however, the swedish industrialist, engineer, and inventor built bridges and buildings in his nation' s capital stockholm. it was his construction work that inspired nobel to research new methods of blasting rock. so in 1860, the nobel first started experimenting with an explosive chemical substance called nitroglycerin .
dupont canada’s roots go back to 1876 and an investment in ontario’s hamilton powder company that thrived supplying nitroglycerine to canada’s railway builders. in 1911 the nobel interests, who also had invested heavily in hamilton, persuaded dupont to form canadian explosives (cxl), owned 45 percent by dupont and 55 percent by nobel .
nitroglycerin itself, however, remained difficult to transport and extremely dangerous to handle. so dangerous, in fact, that nobel’s nitroglycerin factory blew up in 1864, killing his younger brother emil and several other people. undaunted by this tragic accident, nobel built several factories to manufacture nitroglycerin for use in concert with his blasting caps. these factories were as safe as the knowledge of the time allowed, but accidental explosions still occasionally occurred. nobel’s second important invention was that of
previous humanitarian disarmament treaties show that getting the treaty (and even winning a nobel peace prize) is actually the easy part and the hard work comes now .
dynamitaktiengesellschaft (dag), formerly alfred nobel & co (hamburg, germany), is formed. alfred nobel advertises for a housekeeper / personal secretary, meets with bertha kinsky von chinic und tettau (later von suttner) and hires her. she leaves his employment after a short time and becomes a leading peace activist .
because the elder nobel disapproved of alfred' s interest in poetry, he sent his son abroad to further his training in chemistry and engineering. while studying in paris, nobel met italian chemist ascanio sobrero, who in 1847 invented nitroglycerin, the oily, liquid explosive made by combining glycerin with nitric acid and sulfuric acid .
in the late 19th century, new explosives began to challenge the dominance of black powder. alfred nobel’s invention of dynamite introduced a blasting explosive three times more powerful .
the gelatinized nitroglycerine explosive that nobel had invented in 1875 - and patented all over the world - was certainly an improvement above dynamite, so that in that respect nobel' s opinion proved correct in the long run. however, both the managements of several dynamite companies, not least that of the british one, as well as customers, were in the beginning hesitant. thus, instead of producing a monopoly product, many of the nobel companies had to face strong competition from other dynamite manufacturers .
when he died in 1896, nobel stipulated the year before in his last will and testament that 94 percent of his total assets go toward the creation of an endowment fund to honor achievements in physical science, chemistry, medical science or physiology, literary work and service toward peace. hence, the nobel prize is awarded yearly to people whose work helps humanity. in total, alfred nobel held three hundred and fifty - five patents in the fields of electrochemistry, optics, biology, and physiology .
at the age of 40 alfred nobel is a wealthy man. he moves to paris and settles at avenue malakoff. the manufacture of nitroglycerin and dynamite starts at ardeer .
, a porous siliceous earth, and the resulting mixture was much safer to use and easier to handle than nitroglycerin alone. nobel named the new product dynamite (from greek
towards the middle of the 1880s, conditions for several of the nobel companies were reversed. the italian and swiss companies, which on barbe' s initiative merged into dynamite nobel in 1880, had grown quickly. their combined profits were larger than those of the british company, which on the other hand had to face increasing competition, particularly from german manufacturers. around 1883, the british, german, italian - swiss, and spanish nobel companies were about the same size with regard to both sales and profits .
finally, in 1867, alfred nobel found that by mixing nitroglycerin with diatomaceous earth (known as kieselguhr in german), the resulting compound was a stable paste that could be shaped into short sticks that mining companies might use to blast through rock. nobel patented this invention as
dynamite ,
from the greek word dunamis, or
power .
alfred nobel goes to paris and works for one year in the laboratory of t. jules pelouze. he also travels to italy, germany and the united states (us) .
in 1864, albert nobel founded nitroglycerin ab in stockholm, sweden. in 1865, he built the alfred nobel & co. factory in krümmel near hamburg, germany. in 1866, he established the united states blasting oil company in the u. s. in 1870, he established the société général pour la fabrication de la dynamite in paris, france .
nobel establishes the united states blasting oil company in the us. a violent explosion destroys the krümmel plant. experimenting on a raft anchored on the river elbe, alfred nobel tries to make nitroglycerin safer to handle. he finds that nitroglycerin is stabilized by the addition of kieselguhr (a siliceous deposit; also known as diatomaceous earth), and calls this mixture dynamite .
in 1864 nobel founded nitroglycerin aktiebolaget ab in sweden. it was a joint - stock company with a fairly small amount of capital, paid in mostly by a stockholm merchant. for his patents nobel received 49. 6 percent of the shares in the company, besides a cash payment. a factory was built in vinterviken, 10 kilometers from the center of stockholm .
from 1883, several forms of mergers were discussed. barbe wanted a merger of all the nobel companies. the german manufacturers, including a group on the board of the german nobel company, wanted a cartel consisting only of german companies for the german market. they were quite content with a price agreement with the non - german companies - and such an agreement was concluded in 1884 - since they expected to gain further ground in the british colonies. nobel was willing to approve any form of merger, as long as the british company and its competitors were included .
in 1866 nobel went to the united states, the main purpose being to defend his patent rights there. after having done so successfully, he devoted himself to the formation of a nitroglycerine company .
14 g of wittebsole w35 (trademark, a product of dynamit novel) was molten at 60°c. after cooling to 40°c, 1 g of pranoprofen was dissolved. the mixture was stirred to homogenize and filled in containers to obtain 20 suppositories, each weighing 0. 75 g and containing 50 mg of pranoprofen .
though nitroglycerine was considered too unsafe to have any practical use, the nobel family — which now had several profitable enterprises in russia and sweden — continued to investigate its potential for commercial and industrial uses .
11, 250 mg of wittebsole h15 (trademark, a product of dynamit novel) was molten at 60°c to dissolve 750 mg of pranoprofen therein. after cooling to 40°c, the mixture was stirred to homogenize and filled in containers to obtain 10 suppositories, each weighing 1. 2 g and containing 75 mg of pranoprofen .
nobel consistently acted as a spokesman for the british company. ironically enough, when nobel finally wanted to see the companies merged, he had lost the power to enforce such a project. in the beginning of the 1880s he had sold out the larger portion of his shares in the dynamite companies and placed the money in his brother' s petroleum company in russia which at the time had great financial difficulties .
although highly integrated with regard to ownership, the nobel companies did not act as a group; they did not form a multinational. despite the fact that nobel and barbe held a near majority of shares in all the companies, except the french one, they did not have the decisive influence. only in the italian and swiss companies, the two smallest and so far least successful, was this the case .
, with a share capital of 3. 5 million marks. alfred nobel managed the company until 1879, when he became chairman of the supervisory board, a position he held until his death in 1896 .
international coatings (london), part of akzo nobel' s marine and protective coatings business, has acquired chartek, the hydrocarbon fire - protection coatings business of textron (boston). terms ...
fully aware of the great potential markets for his new explosive, nobel was eager to start production in other countries. in the later part of 1865, he left sweden, never to return except for visits .
in 1894, alfred nobel acquired bofors. his reasons were probably partly nostalgic and practical. although he had lived most of his life outside sweden, he wanted to return to settle there during his final years .
starting with a joint - stock company in stockholm, nobel would years after establish the first international holding company in the world, the nobel dynamite trust company. this was a new phenomenon in the business world: a company whose purpose was to own shares in other companies in several countries and control and manage their joint business. its head office coordinated production, sales, investments and purchase of raw materials in a way similar to that of multinational enterprises of today .
. nobel subsidiaries operating dynamite factories were founded in many countries, and production rose from 11 tons in 1867 to 5, 000 tons in 1876. in 1876, in the wake of this industrialization, the company was converted into an
nobel obtains the first patent on nitroglycerin (blasting oil) as an industrial explosive. he develops and patents a detonator (blasting cap) for triggering the explosion of nitroglycerin. he also moves to stockholm, where he continues his experiments .
“power”) and was granted patents for it in great britain (1867) and the united states (1868). dynamite established nobel’s fame worldwide and was soon put to use in blasting tunnels, cutting canals, and building railways and roads .
in december 1953 the company was released from allied control. dynamit ag focused on its former explosives and plastics divisions and also became active in the chemicals sector. in subsequent years, the losses sustained during the war were made good by new acquisitions. faced with acute shortages of natural fatty acids, an essential raw material, the company increased its involvement in the production of chemical base products .
in early 1865 nobel founded his second nitroglycerine company but later divested his shares and received cash for his patents. this was the only time he did so. otherwise, he also obtained shares when turning his patents over to a new nitroglycerine company .
does this mean armour is catching up with weapons technology? hardly. armour is getting better, but weapons are getting deadlier. consider the panzerfaust 3 (literally, “tankfist”), a shoulder - fired anti - tank guided missile that flies at more than 720kph (450mph). after striking its target, the exploding warhead shoots out a spike of copper at more than 7km a second (25, 200kph) with enough energy to blast through a metre of steel, or any armoured vehicle used today, according to its manufacturer, dynamit nobel defence. (like many defence suppliers, it makes both weapons and anti - weapon systems. )
, was a much more powerful explosive, but it was so unstable that it could not be handled with any degree of safety. nevertheless, nobel in 1862 built a small factory to manufacture nitroglycerin, and at the same time he undertook research in the hope of finding a safe way to control the explosive’s detonation. in 1863 he invented a practical detonator consisting of a wooden plug inserted into a larger charge of nitroglycerin held in a metal container; the explosion of the plug’s small charge of black powder serves to detonate the much more powerful charge of liquid nitroglycerin. this detonator marked the beginning of nobel’s reputation as an inventor as well as the fortune he was to acquire as a maker of explosives. in 1865 nobel invented an improved detonator called a
nobel himself, however, remains a figure of paradoxes and contradictions: a brilliant, lonely man, part pessimist and part idealist, who invented the powerful explosives used in modern warfare but also established the world’s most prestigious prizes for intellectual services rendered to humanity .
when barbe entered the scene, matters accelerated considerably. barbe was a born entrepreneur, sometimes too pushy according to nobel, who was himself a very cautious person when it came to economic matters, perhaps affected by the experience of his father' s two bankruptcies .
nobel’s original fuse - type blasting cap remained virtually unchanged for many years, except for the substitution of 90–10 and 80–20 mixtures of mercury fulminate and potassium chlorate for the pure fulminate. this did not affect the performance materially and provided a substantial economy. mercury fulminate is…
in relation to its potential market in the mining industry, by far the largest in europe, the british nobel company was a rather small company. in 1877, it was reorganized into nobel' s explosives co. and its share capital increased tenfold. in britain and only there was dynamite completely protected by patents during the latter half of the 1870s. the company' s profits were quite satisfactory during the duration of the dynamite patent, as was the rate of return on capital, although in no sense exceptional for the time .
in 1887, barbe managed to merge the remaining nobel companies, the french, the spanish and the italian - swiss, into la société centrale, also called the latin trust. this was more of a financial matter, since there was no competition between these companies .
the shah also contributed a statement to the daily press celebrating the chancellor as a nobel peace prize laureate, because the shah also has no ideological biases; concerning cheap labor in iran, concerning stable political conditions in iran, not to mention raw materials and certain nearby markets .
, which he patented the following year. again by chance, he had discovered that mixing a solution of nitroglycerin with a fluffy substance known as nitrocellulose results in a tough, plastic material that has a high water resistance and greater blasting power than ordinary dynamites. in 1887 nobel introduced
in the 1870s and ’80s nobel built a network of factories throughout europe to manufacture dynamite, and he formed a web of corporations to produce and market his explosives. he also continued to experiment in search of better ones, and in 1875 he invented a more powerful form of dynamite ,
…immanuel nobel and his son alfred made extensive studies of its commercial potential in the years 1859–61. in 1862 they built a crude plant at heleneborg, sweden; alfred, a chemist, was basically responsible for the design of this factory that was efficient and relatively safe considering the state of knowledge…
the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons (ican), winner of the 2017 nobel peace prize for efforts to promote denuclearization through a treaty - based solution, presented the “korean peninsula denuclearization roadmap” at a press conference in singapore ahead of the historic meeting between kim jong - un and donald trump .
in the british dynamite company ltd. that was founded in 1871 with a share capital of £24, 000 - even for its time a fairly small company - nobel received three - eights of the shares for his patents and himself bought additional shares, so that he held half of the total number .
the invention of dynamite revolutionized the mining, construction and demolition industries. railroad companies could now safety blast through mountains, opening up vast stretches of the earth' s surface to exploration and commerce. as a result, nobel — who eventually garnered 355 patents on his many inventions — grew fantastically wealthy .
and caroline nobel. immanuel was an inventor and engineer who had married caroline andrietta ahlsell in 1827. the couple had eight children, of whom only alfred and three brothers reached adulthood. alfred was prone to illness as a child, but he enjoyed a close relationship with his mother and displayed a lively
it was the leading men in the british dynamite company, including nobel, who were most active in trying to get a trust company formed. it was the british company that had most to gain from a merger whereby exports would be regulated; its export market was twice the size of its home market .
competition was hard in germany and great britain. besides dag there were now eight other dynamite producing companies in germany. in britain, german manufacturers and the british nobel company fought over the market and dynamite prices fell. competition was also spreading to the british colonies, especially to the very lucrative australian market .
by 1927 the firm had expanded into chemical production and dupont and ici, the british chemical giant that succeeded nobel, renamed the firm canadian industries limited (cil). during the great depression. dupont assumed a more dominant role in the partnership due to the success of products such as duco paints and cellophane .
dynamite, of course, had other uses, and it wasn' t long before military authorities began using it in warfare, including dynamite cannons used during the spanish - american war. though he' s widely credited with being a pacifist, it' s not known whether nobel approved of dynamite' s military use or not .
for hundreds of years, black powder was the only explosive available for civilian as well as military purposes. alfred nobel' s invention of the detonator ensured a controlled explosion of nitroglycerine and made it possible to introduce this much stronger explosive on the civilian explosives market. his second important invention, dynamite, facilitated the transport and handling of nitroglycerine .
dyno nobel announces today the results from the differential energy™ blasting trial conducted at a gold mine in the western united states. the trial showed the differential energy system increased overall shovel productivity by 8% , reduced powder factor by 18% , eliminated the need to dewater wet drill holes and reduced all visible nox after - blast fumes over traditional blasting methods. read more
mines and machine tools. the nobel family left stockholm in 1842 to join the father in st. petersburg. alfred’s newly prosperous parents were now able to send him to private tutors, and he proved to be an eager pupil. he was a competent chemist by age 16 and was fluent in english, french, german, and russian as well as swedish .
1958 - the duslo plant (dusikáreň šaľa) was established 1960 - the start of the industrial fertilizers production 1966 - the beginning of duslo - the national enterprise of šaľa 1981 - starting production of rubber chemicals 1989 - the legal format of duslo was changed to a state enterprise 1990 - obtaining authorization for the foreign trading market 1994 - the establishment of the joint stock company duslo, a. s. 2005 - duslo became part of the agrofert holding group, a. s. 2006 - merger with istrochem, a. s. (istrochem: 1873 - establishment of the dynamit nobel factory, 2002 - istrochem, a. s. - part of the group agrofert holding, a. s .) 2007 - purchase of a part of production facilities in chemko strážske, establishment of hnojivá duslo s. r. o. 2016 - merger with hnojivá duslo s. r. o. 2016 - start of the building of the new ammonia production unit
the sons, who had taken over their father' s company winkler & co. in hamburg, had earlier been impressed by alfred nobel' s demonstrations of the explosive power of nitroglycerine. times were bad and trade with sweden was becoming less profitable so the brothers were searching for a new product. they found what they were seeking in alfred' s blasting oil .
in june of that year, the united states blasting oil company was incorporated. the company was given a share capital of $ 1, 000, 000, of which nobel received 25 percent for transferring his patent rights. he also received $ 10, 000 in cash and was to receive another $ 10, 000 when production had reached 1, 000 pounds a day .
nitroglycerin was first invented by italian chemist ascanio sobrero in 1846. in its natural liquid state, nitroglycerin is very volatile. nobel understood this and in 1866 discovered that mixing nitroglycerine with silica would turn the liquid into a malleable paste called dynamite. one advantage that dynamite had over nitroglycerin was that it could be cylinder - shaped for insertion into the drilling holes used for mining .
charles j. pedersen, dupont’s only nobel laureate, received a master’s degree in organic chemistry from the massachusetts institute of technology (mit) in 1927 and began his career with dupont at the chambers works’ jackson laboratory in deepwater, n. j. one of pedersen’s early accomplishments was to improve the process for making the
anti - knock
gasoline additive, tetraethyl lead .
the ottawa treaty provides an excellent example of the results of increasing meaningful participation of women, women’s organizations and networks in peace and security work. the 1997 nobel peace prize laureate international campaign to ban landmines (icbl), a driving force behind the negotiation and the ongoing implementation of the ottawa treaty, has always been a women - led movement. in the icbl women lead at the national and international levels .
the nobel companies varied considerably in their development and success. throughout the 1870s, the german company, with its five factories, was the largest with regard to both production and exports, and until the middle of the decade, with regard to profits as well. after 1876, however, the company' s business stagnated, due both to a decreasing demand and to keen competition within germany from other dynamite manufacturers .
on july 7 2017, we collectively held our breath as the votes to adopt the text came up one by one on the screen and collectively we applauded, cried and hugged when the votes showed an overwhelming majority of states in favour. later in the year, we collectively celebrated the treaty being opened for signature and then the nobel peace prize. with courage, conviction and collective action, this group of ordinary people had changed the world .
. the french newspapers reported ludvig’s death but confused him with alfred, and one paper sported the headline “le marchand de la mort est mort” (“the merchant of death is dead. ”) perhaps alfred nobel established the prizes to avoid precisely the sort of posthumous reputation suggested by this premature obituary. it is certain that the actual awards he instituted reflect his lifelong interest in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology, and literature. there is also abundant evidence that his friendship with the prominent austrian pacifist
francis gurney du pont (1850 - 1904) was the youngest son of alexis i. du pont and the grandson of e. i. du pont .
frank
served as superintendent of the upper and lower hagley yards before becoming general manager of carney' s point, n. j. , in 1891. there he conducted research into alfred nobel' s formula for smokeless powder. in 1893, with the assistance of his cousin pierre du pont, frank developed a successful smokeless powder for shotguns .
nonetheless, he found out what others thought of his invention when, in 1888, his brother ludvig died. though some journalistic error, alfred' s obituary was widely printed instead, and he was scorned for being the man who made millions through the deaths of others. once french newspaper wrote
le marchand de la mort est mort ,
or
the merchant of death is dead .
the obituary went on to describe nobel as a man
who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before .
some months before the trust was formed, he wrote to the manager of nobel' s explosives :
i care not a straw whether a trust company is formed or not, but i care a great deal about my technical labor, and i find it high time to disengage myself from the slavery to which for years i have submitted against my will, and for no good, either to myself or others. there is not the slightest reason why i, who have not been trained to commerce, and cordially hate it, should be plagued with all these commercial matters, about which i know little more than the man in the moon .
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as donald trump and kim jong - un meet in singapore, humanitarian disarmament organizations are highlighting the importance of disarmament more broadly to a lasting peace on the korean peninsula. both nuclear weapons and anti - personnel landmines will need to be addressed by the states involved .
the denuclearization of the korean peninsula has been a topic of much discussion. working behind the scenes for the last month, a group of the world’s foremost nuclear disarmament experts have mapped out the best pathway for total denuclearization of the korean peninsula, determining that the existing international treaty framework is the most appropriate solution .
the plan begins by recognizing the horrific loss of life and suffering that would be caused by any use of nuclear weapons. experts agree that even a limited nuclear engagement on the korean peninsula would see upwards of 30 warheads detonated causing massive loss of life and cataclysmic environmental damage in north and south korea, as well as the entire northeast asia region. any solution to the crisis requires all parties to reject nuclear weapons outright on humanitarian grounds, through the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons (tpnw) .
the roadmap outlines a solution to the question of how the korean peninsula will be denuclearized where states recognize the unacceptable humanitarian risk of nuclear weapons; reject weapons by joining the tpnw; remove existing weapons with verifiable and time - bound plans; ratify the comprehensive test ban treaty (ctbt); and rejoin the world community through the nuclear non - proliferation treaty (npt) .
“the existing treaty frameworks are the only way to make korean denuclearization permanent, ” said beatrice fihn, executive director of ican. “there has been little talk as to what an agreement could look like. this roadmap answers the question at the heart of negotiations: how do north and south korea denuclearize in a way that is verifiable, irreversible and won' t unravel? ”
the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons is the central point of the plan and joining the treaty would oblige north korea to immediately cease any development, production, and manufacture of nuclear weapons. north korea would also be obliged to eliminate its nuclear - weapon programme, to resume implementation of its international atomic energy agency (iaea) comprehensive safeguards agreement, and to conclude and implement an additional protocol with the iaea .
1 recognize the risk of nuclear use and unacceptable humanitarian consequences of such use .
beyond denuclearization, the issue of anti - personnel landmines should be on the agenda not just at the kim - trump summit but at other talks aimed at building peace on the korean peninsula. the korean peninsula is one of the most heavily landmine contaminated places on the planet. the landmine monitor has received reports of between 500 and 3, 000 landmine casualties in south korea but has no estimate of the number of casualties in north korea. despite the threat to civilians living near the demilitarized zone, landmines have not received much attention during this process .
should this summit start a serious peace process, the united states, north korea and south korea will all need to deal with the landmines in the demilitarized zone. similar to the calls from ican for north and south korea to join the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, both north and south korea should join the ottawa treaty banning landmines together. acceding to the treaty together will be a confidence and peace building measure. there is a proven track record of the ottawa treaty banning landmines being used to build confidence between states - greece and turkey joined the treaty simultaneously to further political trust between the two states. after joining the ottawa treaty, north and south korea will have to demine the demilitarized zone. working together to clear the landmines can further build trust and peace between the former adversaries as seen by the close cooperation between ecuador and peru to clear their formerly contested border of landmines. by joining and implementing the ottawa treaty together, north and south korea can begin to work towards a lasting peace on the korean peninsula .
mines action canada hopes that the trump - kim summit in singapore will bring renewed attention to the disarmament of the korean peninsula. we call on both parties to join the ottawa treaty and the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons as an immediate peace dividend. it is time to take the first in a number of steps towards a nuclear weapons and landmine free peaceful korean peninsula .
it has been ten years since the convention on cluster munitions was adopted in dublin. in those ten years, the treaty has been signed by 120 states, ratified by 103 states, entered into force, had 7 meetings of states parties and a review conference and destroyed millions of cluster munitions around the world.
dynamit nobel ag is a german chemical and weapons company whose headquarters is in troisdorf . it was founded in 1865 by alfred nobel . 
dynamit nobel ag is a german chemical and weapons company whose headquarters is in troisdorf. it was founded in 1865 by alfred nobel.
dynamit nobel ag is a german chemical and weapons company whose headquarters is in troisdorf. it was founded in 1865 by alfred nobel.