Immanuel Nobel

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Immanuel Nobel the Younger ( noh-BEL, Swedish: [nʊˈbɛlː]; 24 March 1801 – 3 September 1872) was a Swedish engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist. Nobel was the inventor of the rotary lathe used in plywood manufacturing, an improved underwater mine used in the Crimean war, as well as several other inventions. He was a member of the Nobel family and the father of Robert Nobel, Ludvig Nobel, Alfred Nobel and Emil Oskar Nobel. In 1827, he married the children's mother, Andriette Ahlsell. Nobel also often experimented with nitroglycerin with his sons, one of whom, Emil, died from an explosion at his father's factory Heleneborg in Stockholm in 1864. Nobel suffered a stroke and died on 3 September 1872.

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