#dynamite

Stories tagged “dynamite” in the Weird Science History archive — 2 stories connected by this topic.

• The Obituary That Supposedly Created the Nobel Prize — and That Nobody Has Ever Found
• The Time Oregon Blew Up a Whale With Half a Ton of Dynamite

Related topics: #1970 #Alfred Nobel #Bertha von Suttner #engineering failure #exploding whale #history of chemistry #nitroglycerine #Nobel Prize