Emphasis Preaching Journal

At the end of the Crimean War in 1856, Immanuel Nobel went bankrupt. His armaments factory, located in St. Petersburg, was no longer needed to provide munitions for the war effort. Immanuel returned to his home country of Sweden, leaving his three oldest sons behind to salvage the business. One son, Alfred, was trained as a chemist and physicist. Through tireless work he discovered the lethal combination of mixing nitroglycerine and black powder, to create what he called dynamite. He went on to develop several other explosive devices, one of which was ballistite.