A rare explosion happened near the Nobel family residence in the east of the city. Nobel's big bungalow laboratory, with a loud noise, turned into rubble. All five people who carried out the experiment were killed. Amy, the youngest son of the old Nobel, was also killed in the explosion. The explosive power is unprecedented.
When the city hall announced the explosion, almost everyone in the city rebelled. It turned out that the Nobel family was studying a kind of nitroglycerin with strong explosive force, which exploded due to careless operation. Who wants to sleep next to the dynamite bucket? Angry neighbors almost drove the Nobel family out of the house. The city hall immediately issued an order prohibiting experiments in the city, otherwise the Nobel family would be expelled.
The government banned the manufacture of explosives in this city, so they had to move the equipment to a gondola on Lake Mara far from Stockholm. People say that the Nobel family is crazy. In fact, the Nobel family is a family of inventors who are keen on science and technology and immersed in explosive research. From the old Nobel, the small factory owner devoted himself to technological invention until Alfred founded the immortal Nobel Prize. The Nobel family has gone through hardships and made outstanding contributions to the cause of science.
Nobel Sr is an inventor devoted to science and technology. When the small factory he worked so hard to run in Sweden was destroyed by fire, he left his motherland, his wife and children and went to Russia to make a living. In Russia, the old Nobel runs a bleak enterprise, engaged in mechanical invention and explosive development. His research achievements have been appreciated by Russia, but the political turmoil of the Russian royal family has made his career unsustainable.
After returning to China, Nobel, who was nearly 60 years old, rallied and developed explosives with his three sons. Alfred inherited his father's indomitable character. When Alfred saw that nitroglycerin was extremely explosive, he decided to seriously study this explosive and use it in mine excavation and canal excavation. Since then, alfred nobel's life has been inextricably linked with the constant explosion.
Nobel first saw nitroglycerin in St. Petersburg, Russia. At that time, Professor Zinin, a Russian chemist, demonstrated the explosiveness of nitroglycerin to the Nobel father and son who came to consult. When nitroglycerin exploded violently under the hammer, it left a deep impression on Nobel.
In order to control the explosion of nitroglycerin, the detonator must be invented first. After Nobel's research, it was found that nitroglycerin must be heated to the explosion point or ignited by gravity if it is to explode. 1862, Nobel successfully detonated nitroglycerin with gunpowder. Nobel put nitroglycerin in a glass bottle, then released a tin tube full of gunpowder, and then put it in the gunpowder to detonate.
Nobel will never forget the earliest safety explosion. Early in the morning, the river was still filled with white fog. The Nobel brothers came to the river together, Alfred lit the fuse, and then they were humiliated in the water. Suddenly, there was a harsh sound of metal breaking. Obviously, its explosive power is far greater than ordinary gunpowder, which successfully strengthened Nobel's determination to develop high explosives. However, the violent explosion not long after made them lose their youngest brother Amy and forced them to move to a boat in the lake for an experiment.
At this time, Nobel took advantage of the sensitive characteristics of mercury fulminate. When it was slightly hit or shaken, mercury fulminate exploded immediately and made a detonator. One day, Nobel conducted a detonation experiment at the lake Mara. People watching from a distance witnessed the scene of Nobel breaking free from the hands of death: Nobel, who was agile, just installed the experimental device gently, turned and walked away, and before he had gone far, he heard a loud bang, and the explosives rolled up thick black smoke and dust. People thought that Nobel must be finished this time. Unexpectedly, Nobel ran out of the smoke with blood all over his face.
After detonating high explosives with detonators, Nobel began to make nitroglycerin. The society is in urgent need of high explosives, and the products of Nobel Factory are in short supply. However, a series of big explosions made Nobel face a desperate situation. Nitroglycerin will explode when it encounters severe vibration. At that time, people knew nothing about the danger of explosives and treated nitroglycerin at will, unaware that death was with them. Soon, threatening letters flooded into Nobel.
186565438+In February, a businessman took 10 pound of nitroglycerin and stayed in a hotel in new york. The sudden explosion destroyed the house and killed people, and even the foundation was blown out more than one meter deep.
1866 In March, two boxes of nitroglycerin stored in a warehouse in Sydney exploded with a loud noise, leaving no tiles.
1in April, 866, the nitroglycerin carried by Europa sank to the bottom of the sea due to the explosion, and no one on board was spared.
People's words of panic, doubt, resistance and cursing poured in on Nobel, and there was a tendency for dark clouds to overwhelm the city, and the determined Nobel was also anxious about it. But he didn't feel as sorry and at a loss as Sobolero who found nitroglycerin, and only prayed for God's forgiveness. He firmly believes that the superiority of new explosives will bring great benefits to industrial development and the immediate difficulties will be overcome!
How can we solve the safety problem of high explosives? After fighting day and night, Nobel came up with two safety measures and finally solved the safety problem of nitroglycerin. Nobel used diatomite to adsorb nitroglycerin to make solid explosives. After the successful trial production, Nobel personally went to various places to perform, and proved the power and safety performance of the new explosive with iron facts, so as to dispel people's doubts and save the bad influence.
1867 July 14, the flat ground of the mine ore storage yard in northern England was crowded with dignitaries from the business community and curious audiences. They leaned carefully behind the dam and looked forward in horror.
I saw some of Nobel's assistants light a bonfire with waste sleepers. Then, Nobel calmly put more than 65,438+00 pounds of explosives on the blazing fire. The onlookers were frightened. They know the power of restless nitroglycerin, and some people close their eyes in fear. ...
After a while, Nobel ran to the cliff on the edge of the storage yard. When he threw the explosive box weighing 10 Jin under the cliff 20-30 meters deep, many people were scared to lie behind the dam. Whether it's fire. Still hit, the new explosives are safe and sound. Nobel buried the explosive in an abandoned hole and detonated it with a detonator. Explosives made the rubble fly everywhere and the ground shook. ...
The new explosives have won people's trust, and the users who use Nobel explosives have dispelled their doubts. Since then, Nobel explosives have been widely used in industry, mining and transportation, and the deafening explosion of Nobel explosives has sounded all over the world.