Immanuel Nobel

Immanuel Nobel the Younger ( , ; 24 March 1801 – 3 September 1872) 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. 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.

Biography Early life and education Nobel's family could not afford formal education for him, his father taught him how to read and write. At the age of 14, Nobel became a sailor, then after his return to Sweden in 1819 when he was 18, he went into the building industry. Sometime between 1822 and 1825, Nobel attended lessons at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences engineering college in Stockholm. In 1827, he married Andriette Ahlsell, of whose children eight survived infancy.

St. Petersburg and the Crimean War In 1833, Nobel became bankrupt after failing to start business in his native Sweden. After a few years, Nobel, without his family, moved first to Finland, and then to St. Petersburg, Russia. Here he was attached to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Katarina along with other Swedes such as Johan Patrik Ljungström, with whom he may have collaborated. Nobel started a mechanical workshop, Fonderies et Ateliers Mécaniques Nobel Fils, making military equipment for the Russian army. During this time, Nobel also invented several machine tools and a system for central heating. on 3 September 1864 killed his son Emil and several others. Shortly after the explosion, Nobel suffered a stroke and was confined to his bed during this time he wrote the paper ”Försök till anskaffande af arbetsförtjenst till förekommande af den nu, genom brist deraf tvungna utvandringsfebern", published after his death.