A Museum Floats Down the Chicago River The Floating Museumâs newest installation River Assembly sits on a barge and will be docking at various locations throughout the month, bringing arts programming to audiences along its route.
Alfred Nobel, in full Alfred Bernhard Nobel (born October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Swedenâdied December 10, 1896, San Remo, Italy), Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist, who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives and who also founded the Nobel Prizes. 1  Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel and Caroline Nobel.
inventor of dynamite in 1866. Alfred Nobel. AT A GLANCE: In 1866, Alfred Nobel discovered that mixing nitroglycerine with silica would turn the liquid into a paste which could be shaped into rods of a size and form suitable for insertion into drilling holes. In 1867 he patented this material under the name of dynamite.