Alfred Nobel's 50-year-lost patent collection found

Dozens of Alfred Nobel's valuable patents have just been found after nearly 50 years of disappearance, bringing great historical value to science and invention.

After nearly 50 years of disappearance, dozens of valuable patents of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel have just been found at a house in southern Sweden.

“We received a call from someone who works at an auction house. He said he had documents that a couple in Blekinge (southern Sweden) had found in their summer house. We looked at them and realized that they were really important documents that we wanted to preserve for future generations,” said Hanna Stjarne, director of the Nobel Foundation.

After verification, experts confirmed that these are documents of great historical value.

“It was overwhelming to open each page of the document, feeling the breath of life 150 years ago, how Nobel traveled around Europe, worked and created constantly,” Ms. Stjarne shared.

Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite in 1867 and bequeathed the Nobel Prizes in 1895, held hundreds of patents in many countries, many of which dealt with methods of producing and using explosive chemicals.

Known as “ the world’s richest vagabond,” Nobel lived in Sweden, Russia, Germany, France, the United States, England, and Italy. To protect his invention and avoid having to transport nitroglycerin over long distances, he set up companies in different countries.

Among the newly discovered patents, an 1865 document is particularly noteworthy.

“This is a rare artifact, marking a very early stage in Alfred Nobel’s inventive career – when he had just invented the detonator and was on his way to dynamite,” said Ulf Larsson, senior curator of the Nobel Museum.

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