%0 Journal Article %A Enoksson, Bertil %D 1997 %I Begell House %N 1-6 %P xvii-xxiii %R 10.1615/IntJEnergeticMaterialsChemProp.v4.i1-6.20 %T Historical Lecture on Alfred B. Nobel
ALFRED NOBEL: FROM GUNPOWDER TO BALLISTIT %U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/17bbb47e377ce023,43cb1df7484a24f3,38f4a32f18de72ff.html %V 4 %X Alfred Nobel was an inventor in many different fields who possessed a rare creative power. His scientific contributions were above all others in the explosives area with epoch-making results also of technical and economic importance: the introduction of high explosives, invention of the detonator, dynamite, blasting gelatin, gelatinous explosives, double base propellant, and progressive powder. %8 1997-01-01