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Alfred Nobel’s Big Turn

Do any of you know the name of the inventor of dynamite? It might sound familiar once you hear it, it’s Alfred Nobel. In 1867, Nobel, Alfred Nobel, who was a Swedish chemist invented a new high explosive which he named “dynamite.”

He believed that his invention would make war so horrible that it would never happen again because it would become so awful, so terrible, that no one in their right mind would be willing to inflict that kind of terror on somebody else…surprisingly, he was wrong.

Instead of ending wars, dynamite made them more devastating and wide-ranging than they had…

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