Explosions are underestimated daily and can ruin a person’s ability to do simple tasks like walking or thinking for themselves. This wasn’t any different for the people of the eighteen hundreds. In fact, it was more prone to happen. Miners in the eighteen hundreds had to rely on the weak gunpowder or unstable Nitroglycerin for their explosives. Then came Alfred Nobel. Nobel had a long life, debateable leadership, invented dynamite, created dynamite for safety, made up the Nobel Prizes and shows the all out inspiration for explosives. Alfred Nobel’s life was very lonely and dark. Nobel’s childhood consisted of moving and top-notch education, claims Nobelprize.org. Nobel was born in Sweden and moved to St. Petersburg, Russia because of bankruptcy. …show more content…
Livescience.com and Inventers.about.com both tell of how Nobel invented dynamite. He took Nitroglycerin, a very volatile explosive, and combined it with diatomaceous. Diatomaceous means, essentially, silica remains. After you combine them, it makes a paste. This paste is called dynamite. It is so malleable that it could be shaped into short sticks and put in drilling holes for mining. Nobel’s legacy was originally shaped by this invention of dynamite. Howstuffworks.com and chemistryislife.com ask people so, how does dynamite work? The chemical compounds of Nitroglycerin (4 C3H5(ONO2)3 = 12 CO2 + 10 H2O + 6 N2 + O2) and Diatomaceous (SiO2 Al2 O3 Fe2 O3) combine and make dynamite! Dynamite’s legacy doesn’t stop at it’s use, but on how it works. Dynamite’s work is independent from other explosives. So, according to mentalfloss.com, TNT and dynamite aren’t the same thing. TNT was invented by Joseph Willbrand. Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel. TNT is a less powerful but more stable version of dynamite. The two inventors of these explosives share different leadership and legacy. These two men’s history is very different from each other. Why did Nobel create …show more content…
Nobel had already died when his prizes took action. Livescience.com tells that Nobel had made five prizes. The population was shocked by this, claims Nobelprize.org. The Nobel Prizes fixed Nobel’s shattered legacy. Brainpickings.org says that there are five different types of Nobel Prizes. Alfred Nobel’s will wrote that he would take all the money from his estate into five prizes. One goes to a person who has made the most important discovery or invention in the field of physics. Another prize would be given to a person who made the most important chemical discovery or improvement. Another would go to a person who makes the most important discovery in the domain of physiology or medicine. One would also go to a person who has produced in the field of literature to the most outstanding work and ideal direction. Lastly, a prize would be given to a person who establishes peace for a long period of time. These prizes would make a legacy. Nobel’s legacy is still used today. Nobelprize.org claims that the Nobel PEACE Prize, from 2000 to 2014, was awarded to two countries, four agencies/organizations and seventeen people. That is only one of the Nobel Prizes, too. Since 1896, people have been getting these prizes. One man’s legacy can create future legacies for future people. Nobel’s legacy was also created by other
Elie wiesel born sep 30 1928 in sighet , Transylvania. Elie wiesel overcame many things in his life . But one of the things are fear that he will die also there was starvation that took place and that is the most terriblest thing that can happen. Also there was death of the many jews and his mother and sisters. These adversities made Wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian.
Elie Wiesel was a young boy, when his life changed drastically. He was born in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now Romania. He was born to Shlomo and Sarah, which they had four children, Hilda, Bea, Tsiporah, and Eliezer. Wiesel and his family practiced the Jewish religion, before he was forced into the concentration camps.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, the Viatka District in Russia on May 7, 1840 to a Russian miner and a mother of French origin. During his early life, Tchaikovsky did receive some musical training from a French governess in the form of piano lessons, but the training did not continue. As a young child, Tchaikovsky's family moved to St. Petersburg because his father had been given the position of a government mining official there. In St. Petersburg, he was sent to school to study the law and prepare for a career there, but he continued his musical training in his own time. By improvising on the piano, Tchaikovsky was not only able to improve his skill, but it was in the course of his practices that gave him a great love of music. He wouldn't again train formally in music until after his graduation from law school in 1859.
Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902 and spent most of his childhood in Little Falls, Minnesota. He was a son of an attorney and congressman. His character traits for which he was known for the rest of his life were being reserved and withdrawn. In 1912, his mother took him to an air race, he loved it so much he decided that’s what he wanted to do. In April of 1922 he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and enrolled in a local flight school. Shortly after he joined, the school shut down.
Now nitroglycerine was considered too dangerous to be of any practical use. Although its explosive power greatly exceeded that of gunpowder, the liquid would explode in a very unpredictable manner if subjected to heat and pressure. Alfred Nobel became very interested in nitroglycerine and how it could be put to practical use in construction work. He also realized that the safety problems had to be solved and a method had to be developed for the controlled detonation of nitroglycerine.
The Earth is not a piece of quartz - it’s like a stone with many imperfections and scratches, and though it retains its scratches, it attempts to heal them; it bandages its wounds. To heal a wound, though, it must be first isolated: and in the case of the world, it is literal flaw that resides with the mask of a wound - combated, though not incapacitated, by the innovators of the Earth. A telephone, refrigerator, microwave, civil rights and gender equality - not only technology, but even a concept as imperative as liberation or equality have altered the globe (as humans see it), for the better: technology has made life easier for humans, ideal rights and equality have been gifted to those that require it, and efforts have been exclaimed in order to protect the natural amenities that are taken for granted. The reason adhered to by the innovators, dedicated to creating the aforesaid circumstances, is rather simple: they endeavor as they do because of the profit that befits not only themselves, but the world in doing so. When Alexander Graham Bell and Antonio Meucci developed the telephone, they distributed communication among the masses (a profit), and thereby changed the globe for the better; that same reason is reflected throughout the ages: Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave, gained favorable avail via his invention for not only himself, but the Earth as well. Thus, the innovators of the world retain that reason: they change things for the better because of the positive benefit that would befit doing so - the positive benefit for not only themselves, but the world. Nikola Tesla, one of those innovators, arguably fathomed that reason more than anyone. “Born on July 9, 1856, in Smijan, Croatia, Tesla was the child of a clergy...
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s childhood was poor but happy. Ike was born in Texas in 1890. He grew up with seven siblings in Abilene, Kansas..As a young boy Eisenhower excelled in school. He was a great football player and good at pretty much every other sport. His family of seven was very poor so he couldn’t go to college so he decided that he would go to military school. They all helped each other out throughout their lives.
A legendary novelist, short-story writer and essayist Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close to the prairies and woods west of Chicago. His mother Grace Hall had an operatic career before marrying Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway. While growing up, the young Hemingway spent lots of his time hunting and fishing with his physician father, Dr. Clarence Hemingway, and learned about the ways of music with his mother, who was a musician and artist. He was the second of Clarence and Grace Hemingway's six children. He was raised in a strict Protestant community that tried as hard as possible to be separate themselves from the big city of Chicago, though they were very close geographically. Both parents and their nearby families fostered the Victorian priorities of the time: religion, family, work and discipline. They followed the Victorians' elaborate sentimental style in living and writing. He attended school in the Oak Park Public School system and in high school, Hemingway played sports and wrote for the school newspaper. At Oak Park and River Forest High School, Ernest reported and wrote articles, poems and stories for the school's publications largely based on his direct experiences. Hemingway was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was unable to attend the award ceremony in Stockholm, because he was recuperating from injuries sustained in an airplane crash while hunting in Uganda. In July, 1961, he ended his life in Ketchum, Idaho.
Albert Einstein was one of these particular scientists. Although he was a pacifist, so his greatest effort in helping create the bomb itself was when he penned a letter to President Roosevelt, encouraging him to build the bomb in fear of what Germans had already done in 1938 (Sublette). But that being said, his contributions to science made creating the bomb possible. Through his Theory of
Technology has allowed for the furtherance of warfare, from the invention of gun powder to the splitting of the atom. These findings have propelled the leap of numerous nations’ in the ability to wage war against each other. Of these discoveries, the splitting atom spawned an invention that would hurl the world from conventional warfare into the nuclear age. These ideals were the brainstorming of some of the greatest minds in America and abroad. These scientists began to formulate the creation of the atomic bomb, a device that would change the world in ways that had never been imagined before.
What do you think of when you hear and or say “gunpowder”? Well, you might say to make bullets heat or burst, but did you know it was a mistake when the chinese discovered it. “Gunpowder” was used to trade for different kinds of supplies. There has been numerous items,inventions, and ideas that have been traded along The Silk Road that affect our life today such as gunpowder,paper,and the compass. Gunpowder has several low explosive powders in it and the main powder is gunsand. Gunsand is used for when the guns bullet shoots out it’s to give it an extra boost.
Starting with his life, Karl Marx was born and raised in Trier, Germany. He was one of nine children and his father was lawyer meaning
Until the day he died, physicist Samuel Cohen declared that his invention, the neutron bomb, was a "moral" and "sane" weapon that would kill enemy combatants, while sparing civilians and cities.
The atomic bomb was created to be mass destructive. This was self-evident when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. This decision was made by Harry S. Truman. Knowing how an atomic bomb is created, its' history and the effects it had on the economy could help people realize the reasoning behind such a bomb. These bombs were made for a purpose. Robert Oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb, although Albert Einstein received a lot of credit for his work with the startup of atomic bombs. The Manhattan Project, based in Los Alamos, was a very keen organization that helped the United States become a world power. Over one hundred thousand workers took in this project. People that were not only contributing for personal gain, but for the pride of their country.
“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it (Sullivan 5).” These are the word that Thomas Alva Edison lived his life by. This is why he is known as the greatest inventor in Americas history. Thomas was granted 1093 patents over his life time. Some of the main inventions that changed the world are the electric light bulb, phonograph and movie camera and projector and much more(Jenkins 1). Thomas Edison is well known for his invention of electricity but he has made many more contributions to society.