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Emil was the only member of the family to go to college, attending the University of Uppsala. [2] [3] Emil died together with several other factory workers, the victim of an explosion while experimenting with nitroglycerine at Nobels Sprängolja, his father's factory at Heleneborg in Stockholm. At the time, Nobel was a student in Uppsala, but ...
On 9 March 1911, the village of Pleasant Prairie and neighbouring town of Bristol, 4 miles (6.4 km) away, were levelled by the explosion of five magazines holding 300 tons of dynamite, 105,000 kegs of black blasting powder, and five rail wagons filled with dynamite housed at a 190-acre (77-hectare) DuPont blasting powder plant. A crater 100 ft ...
The Civil Aeronautics Board concluded the severity of Frank's injuries and the numerous particulates found embedded in his body could only be attributed to his proximity to an explosion. [21] Furthermore, the chemical compounds detected in the area around the explosion's point of origin were consistent with those generated by a dynamite explosion.
Hundreds of people have gathered at vigils in memory of the 10 people who died in a devastating explosion in an Irish village. A five-year-old girl and her father were among those killed in Friday ...
A funeral was held Sunday for 20 soldiers who died at an army base in southwestern Cambodia in a huge explosion of stored munitions that also wounded several others and damaged nearby houses.
Their load exploded at 9:45am on September 4, 1885 on the 6th Line (road) at Douro, Ontario, [2] noted as being a corduroy road and rough to travel in poor weather. [3] Both men were killed in the blast and the only parts of the men that were found were "a finger, two tiny sections of a skull, a tiny piece of cheek identified by the whiskers, and what appeared to be a man's shoulder that was ...
PHOTO: In this screen grab from a video, first responders are shown at the scene of a house explosion in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, on Aug. 23, 2024. (KMBC) The sheriff's office told ABC News ...
Part of the track where the explosion took place at Braamfontein on 19 February 1896 The crater created by the dynamite explosion (looking west) at Braamfontein on 19 February 1896. On 16 February 1896, a freight train with eight trucks of dynamite – 2300 cases of 60lb each, or about 60 tonnes – was put in a siding at Braamfontein railway ...