Who invented dynamite…..and why was it invented?
In the early 1800s, “black powder” was the sole means of expansion/combustion or explosions available to Man. The problem with this powder is that it is highly volatile (burnable) and can set off just by pouring it into a container! The friction between grains of the powder can generate enough heat to ignite the powder! Packing the powder into drilled holes for tunneling or quarrying rock was considered suicidal, yet was done everyday on construction sites. This killed hundreds, if not thousands, of explosive workers world-wide, beginning a cry for a safer explosive to aid in the rapid expansion and constuction of the Industrial Revolution. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite to give mankind that safer explosive. If you put the words “dynamite invention” into the Y’Search____Web Search box at the top of this page, it will yield nearly 250,000 (a quarter million) links. Good luck!
