was invented during 9th century China. This material was sensitive to water, and was evolved in causing lots of dark smoke and pollution. The first useful offical explosive was stronger than black powder and they called it nitroglycerin, which was developed in 1847. As nitroglycerin was unstable, it was replaced by nitrocellulose, a smokeless powdered dynamite and gelignite. In World War I saw the introduction of trinitrotoluene in naval shells. But in World War II it was seen as an extensive use of
Alfred Nobel Alfred Nobel is known for his famous invention. He invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prizes. Alfred was an incredible man and accomplished many things in his life that started on October 21, 1833 and ended on December 10, 1896. He was an inventor, Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and an armaments manufacturer. Alfred's life was not always great, as he was born into a poor family in Stockholm, Sweden and experienced many accidents. Alfred's father manufactured military equipment
September 11, 2001, 2,996 people lost their lives, and over 6,000 others injured in part of “an attack on America”. The 11th day of September in 2001, considered the largest terrorist attack ever in United States history. One American Airlines plane, and one United Airlines planes theoretically flew into the 2 World Trade Center Towers, also known as the Twin Towers(Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York),when hijacked by the Islamic extremist group, al-Qaeda, and who also happened to
This story starts when Susan McConnell is walking across her school’s parking lot, thinking about their new teacher, Mr. Griffin. As she was walking across the parking lot, she thought about how she hated spring, and how she wished that she lived on a lake somewhere; She then thought about how her realist father had put it. He had asked her how she was going to pay the property taxes. After that, she started realizing that of all the times that she had said someday, they would probably mean never
Pyrotechnics are applied in many tasks in our world. Some of these are ejection seats for military aircraft, exploding dye capsules for banks, trail making, propellant for bullets, fire extinguishing, demolition, airbags for cars, mining, mountain carving, and even helping clean up the tragedy of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Pyrotechnics have shaped the earth and country with many uses. The first explosive ever discovered was by old Asian alchemists, they were mixing certain chemicals for a
At that moment, I was amazed by this miracle drug and was wondering what I can do to save lives. I did lots of research on nitroglycerin and understood that it was the nitric oxide that converted from nitroglycerin that saved his life. I am very curious if other gases have similar functions. Luckily, I found Dr. Xuejun Sun, a professor from my school who was conducting medical gas research for a long time. I contacted
After that, I read lots of background materials about nitroglycerin and I noticed that nitric oxide is the effective constituent of nitroglycerin. Nitric oxide, a simple nitrogen oxide gas, plays a vital role in cardio-protection. From my point of view, some other kinds of gas might also have the same effect and methane, the simplest alkane, came into
Alfred Nobel, born in 1833, was the inventor of dynamite. He was much more than an inventor, was fluent in several languages, enjoyed poetry and was considered to have radical ideas during his time. He left a lasting legacy by establishing the famous peace prize which is named in his honour. Nobel’s father was an engineer and inventor. He built bridges and in relation to this, he experimented with ways to blast rock. In the year Alfred was born, his father went bankrupt because several barges
1) What are some of the fire anomalies an arson investigator will look for during an investigation? A fire investigator will first ensure that the fire did not have an accidental cause, by searching for clues like faulty wiring, cigarette smoking and overheated electric motors. Then the investigator will begin an extensive on-site investigation by first looking for containers that are capable of holding an accelerant, as well as an ignition device such as a candle. The investigator will also looking
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
during the Crimson War, but when a new leader came to power, eh cut military spending. When the business moved to Stockholm, Alfred became interested in nitroglycerin, a dangerous explosive. It was so dangerous that one of his factories exploded, killing his younger brother. However, this did not deter Alfred Nobel. He continued working with nitroglycerin and mixed it with different chemicals until it became stable. Nobel found that soaking absorbent material in glycerin made the explosion much more stable
business. Alfred soon began experimenting with explosives in a small laboratory on his father's estate. At the time, the only dependable explosive for use in mines was black powder, a form of gunpowder. A recently discovered liquid compound, nitroglycerin, was a much more powerful explosive, but it was so volatile that it could not be handled with any degree of safety.
Roberts used filled iron torpedo shells with black powder, and later nitroglycerin. The torpedo’s borehole was filled with water. By using this new concoction of material, Col Roberts was about the effectively control the depth and trajectory of the explosion. The concept of the nitroglycerin filled “exploding torpedo” was used well into the 1990’s for water and oil wells. However, almost a half a century before nitroglycerin became obsolete in the fracking community, engineers in an oil field in
Dynamite has a lot of chemicals to make it exploded,but dynamite is an explosive consisted of a flammable combustible liquid called Nitroglycerin. there still a lot of chemicals in dynamite but the most important one has to be Nitroglycerin. The lesser chemical are silica, alumina and iron oxide. Nitroglycerin is composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and most important oxygen. Dynamite is an important part of history because of the historic sites used with dynamite and
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
Alfred Nobel: The Man behind the Prize. Alfred Nobel is known for starting the Nobel Prize. This prize is given every year to some of the greatest minds in the world who through their work, help to better society. In opposition to the improvement of society, is the fact that Nobel’s other known inventions brought much death and destruction to the world (Frost). This combination of inventions helps to pose the question who was Alfred Nobel, and why did Nobel create this prize to help the world. In
patient consequently began to develop some substernal chest pain with a radiation to the left arm; the patient also became diaphoretic and somewhat out of breath. Emergency medical services (EMS) were contacted. EMS gave the patient aspirin and nitroglycerin and started a saline lock. EMS brought the patient to the emergency department. The patient had
Mr. T was in a serious car accident and suffered severe blood loss. He probably went through a hypovolemic shock. Hypovolemic shock is a condition that occurs when an individual looses more than one-fifth of the body’s blood. This amount of blood loss makes it nearly impossible for the heart to pump enough blood into the body, which may eventually lead to organ failure. This condition requires medical attention immediately. Hypovolemic shock results from sudden blood loss from the body. Large amounts
There are almost 7 million Americans in the United States that suffer from Coronary Artery Disease today. The prognosis for many of these patients depends upon the major therapeutic option of medical management that they choose to receive, the most essential variables that predict the prognosis and likelihood for future events are the extent and severity of the disease at the time of diagnosis. Basically, this translates to mean that the more abnormal the scans and tests are, the higher the prognosis
power. Later workers started to suffer from headaches due to them dealing with nitroglycerin and it caused people to suffer from a heart disease called angina pectoris. This disease caused dilation of blood vessels from the heart muscle which allows the flow of blood and releases the pain. In 1833, a man named Alfred found a way to make a larger explosion by just adding a little gunpowder to nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin was frequently polluted by the corrosive utilized as a part of the assembling