Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 287

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DYNAMITENOBEL, ALFRED. A.D. 1867, 7th May. Nº 1345 . . . "Improvements in Explosive Compounds and in the Means of Igniting the Same." 4 pages. 4to, disbound, preserving original front wrapper. <\t>(London, 1867)

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First patent for dynamite, which made possible the safe manufacture and handling of nitroglycerine. Patents were granted in Sweden on 19 September 1867 and in the United States on 26 May 1868.<