Dynamite: The Industrial Revolution

(The industrial revolution ). In chronological order, the first invention that we chose is the electric arc lamp in 1807. Followed by the steam engine locomotive in 1814 and the fist photography machine in 1826. The fourth invention is dynamite in 1866. The telephone is the next invention in 1874 and the internal combustion engine in 1876. Lastly, we have finger printing in forensics in 1880 and the machine gun in 1885. The electric lamp, or the first electric light, was invented by Humphry Davy in 1807 in Britain. He was a chemist professor and devoted his life to chemistry. He discovered many important elements of the periodic table such as potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, calcium and magnesium. He created the first light by connecting

Dynamite was invented by Alford Nobel in Sweden in 1866. In 1862, he built a lab to produce an explosive chemical known as Nitroglycerin. A year later, he created a detonator for the dynamite by using shock instead of heat. This shock ignited the chemicals. Nobel had a factory that produced nitroglycerin. Two years later, his factory once exploded, killing his brother and more workers. This caused him to improved the system and added a blasting cap to protect the dynamite from exploding. In 1866, he was mixing Nitroglycerin and kieselguhr together and formed a paste known as dynamite. He used this product to blast tunnels, dig holes, mining and more. Construction and mining were hard to accomplish due to the lack of technology. Dynamite made the jobs of the workers easier. It made the pace of the society and industry faster. Without dynamite, everything would be slower. Miners and construction workers would have to break though rock manually. After the creation of dynamite, it was easier to find coal to be used for fuel. The dynamite we use today does not contain the chemical nitroglycerin because it is too dangerous. Over time, dynamite became safer and bombs were inspired from dynamite. The problem is that dynamite became too accessible to the people. After the invention of bombs, dynamite is less used in the present