Youth

Although its father of the same name, had made himself Immanuel Nobelius, as Feld in the Swedish army and hospital physician in earned, Immanuel Nobel in conditions buildup. Parents could it give no formal training and informed it privately. At the age of fourteen years he became a sailor on the Swedish ship Thetis, with which he bereiste the Mediterranean. With eighteen it returned to Sweden. 1818 as an apprentice of building of ships at the company Loell in employed, he became 1819 member of the academy of arts in Stockholm. There it operated studies in construction teachings and describing geometry, thereafter teachers at the Teknologiska at that time institutet.

Family life

1827 he married Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell, which originated from a rich Swedish family. Together they had eight children, from those however only the four sons Robert Hjalmar (1829-1896), Ludvig Immanuel (1831-1888), Alfred Bernhard (1833-1896) and Emil Oskar (1843-1864) the adult age reached.

Employers

1833 experienced Nobel the bankruptcy of its building firm, when several uninsured load punts with building material went down and the house of the family was burned down already before. On the escape before the creditors Nobel went 1837 as an entrepreneur over Turku, where he was active as rubber manufacturer and an architect, to sank to Petersburg. 1842 it created there its own machine work with attached foundry, which occasionally over thousand workers busy. With large inventor spirit and talent he developed within a short time new machines, particularly for war guidance: a high-speed fire rifle; stationary naval mines, which played a role in the Krimkrieg for the defense of Sveaborg and Kronstadt; a waterproof and inflatable military backpack from india rubber; a Drechselbank for the treatment of plywood; a steam ship; a central heating system with circulating warm water. Numerous orders of the Russian army and the favour of the Zarenhofes provided a large upswing and Immanuel Nobel as well as its family economic prosperity for the company.

Production of explosives

At the end of the Krimkrieges and with death Zar Nikolaus `I. the economic situation of the company became difficult, since further orders of the Russian military were missing and pending calculation to debtor did not pay. On pressure of the creditors its son Ludvig took over the administration of the company. Immanuel Nobel withdrew with its family 1859 to Sweden. With the two sons Alfreds and Emil he developed there a successful exempt private company, which experimented with nitroglycerin. Starting from 1862 the material was inserted as Nobels during the mountain breakup into Sweden and patented 1863. With a heavy explosion in the firm laboratory of Heleneborg at the lake Emil and further workers died on 3 September 1864. From this impact Immanuel Nobel, which suffered 1865 an impact accumulation, recovered physical no more. It died at the anniversary of the explosion eight years later.

Effect

Immanuel Nobel was a talentierter inventor and an impressing entrepreneur personality 19. Century. Its ambitionierten projects often failed because of unrealistic plans and financing possibilities lacking. He became founder of one of the most successful Swedish dynastydynasty dynasties nevertheless. Its sons continued his life's work. The Nobelpark in is designated after the family.

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