Alfred Nobel early factory (Heleneborg)
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The plaque states: "HELENEBORG was built in 1672, extended in 1875. This is the site of Alfred Nobel’s first experiments with nitroglycerine. Following an explosion in 1864 that killed his brother Emil and four assistants Nobel moved his laboratory to Vinterviken outside the city limits."
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Alfred Nobel
listen); 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. He owned Bofors, which he redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Having read a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to the Nobel Prize institution.[1][2] The synthetic element nobelium was named after him in the second half of the 20th century.[3] His name also survives in companies such as Dynamit Nobel and AkzoNobel, which are descendants of mergers with companies that Nobel established.
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