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Immanuel Nobel

Swedish architect, engineer, inventor and industrialist (1801-1872) · Sweden · On the map · Architects · Died at 71

Immanuel Nobel the Younger was a Swedish engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist. He was the inventor of the rotary lathe used in plywood manufacturing and also designed and worked on several inventions such as an improved underwater mine used in the Crimean war.

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He was a member of the Nobel family and the father of Robert Nobel, Ludvig Nobel, Alfred Nobel and Emil Oskar Nobel. In 1827, he married the children's mother, Andriette Ahlsell. Nobel also often experimented with nitroglycerin with his sons, one of whom, Emil, died from an explosion at his father's factory Heleneborg in Stockholm in 1864. Nobel suffered a stroke and died on 3 September 1872.

Country
Sweden
Category
Architects
Type
Architect
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1801 to 1872 · aged 71