In 1866, a Swedish chemist came up with a concoction that went boom. And it would change the world - in ways no one could imagine. This is the story of Alfred Nobel and the creation of dynamite.

Sources

Nobel Prize Website: https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-life-and-work/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel"

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AlfredNobel2.jpg

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