The sulfuric acid factory before it was renovated. Copyright © Nitro Nobel Workers outside the factory. Copyright © Nitro Nobel   The sulfuric acid factory. Drawing by Olle Rydberg Copyright © Nitro Nobel  

The factory at Vinterviken was destroyed more than once by terrible explosions. Sketch by R. Haglund.

A captain in the Naval Engineering Corps, engineer and businessman. Together with , he put up the capital for the formation of Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget. He and Captain J. A. Berg were owners of Wennerström & Berg, engaged in stonecutting and similar operations “for which prisoners assigned to hard labor may be used, in accordance with…

Alfred Nobel’s youngest brother Emil, killed in the explosion at Heleneborg in 1864.

The Detonics Research Laboratory around 1963. Copyright © Nitro Nobel

Heleneborg – after the explosion in 1864.  

The Salpeter factory. A drawing by Olle Rydberg (above) and a recently taken picture (below).

by Birgitta Lemmel The explosives plant at Vinterviken (Winter Bay) just outside Stockholm, Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget, was Alfred Nobel’s very first company. The manufacture of nitroglycerine on an industrial scale started there as early as 1865, and for more than fifty years the Vinterviken factory was to deliver Nobel explosives and blasting devices of various kinds…

An advertisement for Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget after the company had started manufacturing Nobel’s Extra-Dynamite. It shows the working earlier and later methods used in producing dynamite.

Alfred Nobel’s eldest brother, Robert Nobel.