Not a member yet? Join Now Click here for a list of all AFCEA directoriesĬlick here for a list of all Sustaining Members. To update existing company directory information click here AFCEA reserves the right to edit or remove material that does not meet these criteria. To be included, organizations must offer products and/or services that are relevant to a directory's focus and to the AFCEA community. Of AFCEA corporate members that specialize in information technology solutions for defense,security andĪFCEA Sustaining and Preferred Provider Members are listed in BOLD.ĮID-Empresa De Investigacao E de SenvolvimentoĬompanies provide the information for publication in AFCEA directories. The Nobel Prize today is widely regarded as the most prestigious award and the highest honor man can wish for.The AFCEA Corporate Member Directory is the all-inclusive directory Today, the Nobel Prize became a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories in recognition of scientific and cultural advances. This mechanism was known as a dynamite gun, and while the gun itself was deemed too expensive to use, the concept of the gun still helped create a new niche in the weapons industry, grenades.Īlfred Nobel’s guilt feeling pushed him to establish the Nobel Prize in his will in 1895. The modern grenade launcher is stemmed from a Military test carried out in which dynamite was loaded into an artillery weapon and fired over to enemy quarters. In the 1900s, Military Departments began conducting significant research analyzing potential applications of dynamite in the Military. In addition to using dynamite for static explosions, the Military applications for dynamite are virtually endless. The Department of Defense replaced black powder with dynamite, granting the Military an exponential increase in power. Dynamite allowed such workers a simple way to destroy mines and rock to use for materials or clear for further industrialization. At this time, miners and quarry workers had little to no access to power machines and other powerful technological devices. The invention of dynamite may have been one of the most important inventions in the time of the Industrial Revolution. Nobel’s invention revolutionized the world as dynamite had myriad applications in fields ranging from construction to advanced warfare. After its introduction, dynamite rapidly gained wide-scale use as a safe alternative to gunpowder and nitroglycerin. He encapsulated the powder in a cylindrical device with a blast cap mechanism and a fuse charge. Later on, he developed a safe, cheap, efficient storage means for his dynamite powder. He originally sold dynamite as "Nobel's Blasting Powder". Nobel obtained patents for his invention: in England on, and in Sweden on 19 October 1867. When Alfred Nobel attempted to stabilize nitroglycerine, he succeeded in producing a powerful, yet, safe explosive that he named dynamite. Outraged with the catastrophe, the Californian legislature confiscated all private stocks of nitroglycerine and banned its transportation within the State. When Charles Crocker and James Strotbridge shipped nitroglycerine crates to a construction company in San Francisco in 1866, the crate exploded resulting in the death of 15 people. Ascanio Sobrero, born on this day in 1812, invented nitroglycerin. However, the discovery of the explosive could not be kept quiet for long Sobrero‘s invention was soon discovered and tested for its military and commercial applications. Eight hundred pounds of dynamite exploding. Sobrero, who initially wanted to use the explosive for peaceful purposes, destroyed his notes to keep his invention a secret. Suddenly, the drop exploded and sent glass fragments flying into Sobrero‘s face and hands, which scarred him for life. We know how Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite made him feel obliged to create an icon of peace that neutralizes the unintentional evil uses of his invention.Īttempting to create a safe explosive in 1846, Ascanio Sobrero carefully heated a drop of nitroglycerine, a compound derived from heating glycerol with concentrated nitric and sulfuric acid, in a glass test tube. Almost everyone knows the story behind the Nobel Prize.
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