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4meAndyou · F
I was just reading about this. Apparently Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1867. Prior to this, gunpowder caused a lot of death, but the invention of dynamite has killed more people than gunpowder, and more people than the atomic bomb.
Nobel changed his ways very slightly after the death of his brother was misreported as his OWN death, and he was SHOCKED to read the opinion of the world in the newspapers, who rejoiced that he was "dead", and called him "The Merchant of Death".
He was so horrified by his legacy that he established the Nobel Peace Prize to try to leave a "better" aroma around his name.
Dynamite and it's descendant, the bomb, became weapons during WWI and WWII. Bombs were flown overhead and dropped, with devastating results.
Dynamite factories had so many accidents and explosions that they were built in rural areas, near centers of great poverty, in order to attract desperate and impoverished men to work in dangerous and horrifying conditions.
Nobel changed his ways very slightly after the death of his brother was misreported as his OWN death, and he was SHOCKED to read the opinion of the world in the newspapers, who rejoiced that he was "dead", and called him "The Merchant of Death".
He was so horrified by his legacy that he established the Nobel Peace Prize to try to leave a "better" aroma around his name.
Dynamite and it's descendant, the bomb, became weapons during WWI and WWII. Bombs were flown overhead and dropped, with devastating results.
Dynamite factories had so many accidents and explosions that they were built in rural areas, near centers of great poverty, in order to attract desperate and impoverished men to work in dangerous and horrifying conditions.