Merchant of death-Alfred Nobel

Merchant of death

1/6/2015

Alfred Nobel-The Biggest Merchant of death- also one of the biggest donor to mankind

The true merchant of Death, Alfred Nobel, Made himself a fortune- a total of SEK 31.5 million- a very high amount considering the value of krone at that time, selling deadly weapons. But, in the year 1888 his brother Ludvig Nobel died and many media by mistake published his obituaries instead. One of the french newspaper wrote
- " Le merchand de la mort"-"The merchant of death is dead" . Reading how the world will remember him after his death, Alfred decided to change and left almost all his fortune to prosperity of mankind in the form of Nobel Prize

3 Comments

amela

1/5/2015 04:19:43 pm

Awesome lil detail abt someone so great :) very inspiring

sumana bhattacharya

1/13/2015 06:58:54 pm

very inspiring

Stockholmer

2/9/2015 02:57:55 am

Between 1865-1921 dynamite was manufactured at the Nobel factory at Vinterviken in the outskirts of Stockholm.
Working conditions were dangerous, and in the early years of development, there were many explosions and deaths. As a result of hosting almost a century of industry, Vinterviken is in fact, fraught with highly contaminated soil. This grim and violent past has left it’s mark. Nobel is most often remembered for creating a safer product, and celebrated for his contribution towards the peace and other prizes, but lying beneath the surface is another kind of legacy, This is toxic terrain. There are at least 10 different metals in the soils, among the highest concentrations are lead, copper, zinc and arsenic - some concentrations reaching over 28X the Swedish legal hazardous waste limits. The provincial government states that :“Vinterviken has
been included on the list of the county’s 10 most poluted areas.

see: http://www.diva-portal.se/smash/get/diva2:690964/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Now the Nobel The Nobel Foundation plans to build an enormous Nobel Center in the heart of Stockholm. The whole site has to be excavated (with dynamite ?) down to 9 meters and large masses of clay and stone has to be transported through the fragile inner part of Stockholm.

The center will, if built, demolish a maritime heritage of great cultural and historical value; a customs house built in 1876 and two unique warehouses built in 1910 and totally change the scape in this fragile old part of the city. Clothing company H&M is sponsoring with 400 milj. SEK. The Customs House has great historical value as a representative of late-19th-century government and administrative buildings in general and of Stockholm’s customs services, in particular. The warehouses are unique in Stockholm, since there are no longer any similar warehouses remaining at the harbour of Stockholm. Maybe it would be better to spend money to clean up after the old Nobel factory than to destroy the historic port environment for good ?

https://www.facebook.com/bevarablasieholmen

http://www.archdaily.com/497459/chipperfield-s-stockholm-nobel-centre-faces-harsh-opposition/

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Tridib,India.