Swedish Commercial Explosives

Swedish Commercial Explosives of Nonper mrssible Type, With the exception of the book on Nitroglycerin and Dynamite (See Ref 55b), we do not have knowledge of any recent Swedish books, and therefore, our info about current Swed expls is rather limited... 

Swedish inventors Emmanuel Nobel and his son Alfred took an interest in this powerful liquid explosive and produced it commercially in 1862. However, its transportation and its handling were very hazardous, and eventually Alfred Nobel discovered that NG absorbed into a granular type of material (kieselguhr) was still explosive, but was much safer to handle and use than the straight liquid. This new invention, called dynamite, was difficult to ignite by the usual methods used for pure NG. Therefore, also in 1867, Alfred Nobel devised the blasting cap using mercury fulminate. With this development dynamite became the foundation of the commercial explosives industry. 

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