We will start our journey with the story about the life of an inventor. His name is Alfred Bernhard Nobel and he invented the dynamite. Nobel, a son of an engineer, was born in Stockholm in 1833. He moved in his childhood to Russia, where his father was working on an underwater mine. Alfred studied Chemistry in Paris and worked for a time in the USA before returning to Sweden in 1859.

   In 1866 Nobel produced what he believed was a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerin called dynamite. He established his own factory to produce it but in 1864 an explosion at the plant killed Nobel's younger brother and four other workers. Deeply shocked by this event, he now worked on a safer explosive and in 1875 came up with gelignite.

  By the time Alfred Nobel died on December 10th 1896, he had obtained a massive fortune (about $9 million). He left instructions that most of his money should be used to endow annual Nobel prizes - prizes, awarded to those who have contributed most to the common good in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace.

This was in short the life of the inventor of the dymanite - Alfred Nobel, a noble man who gave the people one of the most disructive things known but also left all of his fortune to bestow the people who contribute much in the areas of Chemistry, Peace etc. Now our journey will continue with the interesting story about the invention of the blue jeans - one of the most popular types of clothing...