Left-Wing Kook NOBEL Invented Dynamite!

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com ^ | 10.11.02 | Rush

[fight_truth_decay]

Folks, wait until you learn who this Alfred Nobel guy really was. You think he was a man of peace and a poet and all that, but that's not even 10% of what this guy did. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite! This guy was the original inventor of weapons of mass destruction, and they have a peace prize named after him. It's amazing.

I want to tell you a little about Alfred Nobel, who was born in 1833 and died in 1896. He was born in Stockholm. He entitled a $9 million fund in his will. The interest on this endowment was to be used as awards for people whose work most benefited humanity. First awarded in 1901, the Nobel Prize is still the most honored prize in the world, but is rapidly becoming a big joke, like the United Nations.

Now, remember, my friends, the leftist kooks and extremists are the brightest lights and elites in the liberal movement. The left embraces their kooks. They honor their kooks. On the other end of the spectrum, we are embarrassed of our kooks and try to distance ourselves from them. Alfred Nobel is one of the leading left-wing kooks, and so is this whole committee designed to hand out the Nobel Prizes, especially the peace prize.

In 1842, Alfred Nobel's family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he obtained his education. A-ha! He traveled widely as a young man, becoming fluent in five languages. He was interested in literature and wrote novels, poetry, and plays in his spare time. Oh, how touchy-feely.

In the 1860s, this man who was interested in literature and wrote novels and poetry and plays began experimenting with nitroglycerin in his father's factory! He found it to be highly unstable. So young Alfred tried many ways to stabilize nitroglycerin and he discovered that a mix of nitroglycerin and a fine porous powder called kieselguhr was most effective. He named his mixture "dynamite." He received a patent in 1867. Not content to invent dynamite he set up factories for its mass production. Yes! He set up factories around the world to mass-produce dynamite and other explosives. I'll bet you Saddam Hussein is a student of this guy.

No, the great Alfred Nobel didn't earn any money from his poems. He earned his wealth selling dynamite and other explosives to users who featured them in weapons of mass destruction. I'm wondering, ladies and gentlemen, do you suppose the explosives invented and marketed worldwide from Alfred Nobel have killed more people than SUVs have and ever will? I bet that's the case. So there you have it: this is who the Nobel Peace Prize is named after, the guy who invented dynamite and sold it worldwide.

[fight_truth_decay]

[steve-b]

I've heard that the reason there's no Nobel Prize in mathematics is that Nobel's wife was demonostrating configurations in solid geometry with a mathematician.

[bert]

I heard Rush rant about Nobel and he mised the mark. The Nobel fortune did not come from military use of dynamite, but from the mining and construdtion industries.

Rush was aiming for Jimmy Carter and the Nobel chairman but his bankshot gambit missed the mark.

Rush also neglected to mention that Nobel invented the blasting cap making his report generally poor in substance. It was a rightwing hit piece poorly done.

[Physicist]

It was a rightwing hit piece poorly done.

It's a satire...a little too well done, apparently.

[fight_truth_decay]

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and a very skillful entrepreneur and business man, born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833. His father was Immanuel Nobel, an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. After a bankruptcy, Immanuel left his family in Stockholm in 1837 to start up a new business in St. Petersburg, Russia. Immanuel's business was to manufacture submarine mines and torpedoes that he had designed for the Russian government. In 1842 the rest of the family also moved to Russia.

Immanuel wanted his four sons to get involved in his business, and put them all through education with private teachers. Alfred was a good student who early picked up the interest for chemistry. His father sent him on to further education in the United States between the years 1850-1852; during this period he also visited Paris and got in contact with nitroglycerin for the first time, an explosive liquid which was first made by an Italian scientist named Ascanio Sobrero in 1847. In 1852 Alfred went back to Russia to work with his father as the Russian Navy had placed big orders for the Crimean War (1853-1856). After the war ended and conditions changed, Immanuel Nobel experienced another bankruptcy and moved back to Stockholm with his family. Two of his sons remained in Russia and developed very successful careers in the oil industry.

Back in Stockholm, Alfred, his father and Alfred's younger brother Emil started a laboratory in 1859 where they started to do experiments with the explosive liquid nitroglycerin. Alfred saw that the advantages nitroglycerin had over gun powder could be used in a commercial and technical way. Over the years they had several explosions in the laboratory; a big one in 1864 killed the younger brother Emil and several other people. The city of Stockholm enforced laws that experiments with explosives could not be made within the city limits of Stockholm.

This did not stop Alfred; he moved his laboratory to a barge on the Lake of Malaren. Alfred had by now realized that there were safety problems to be solved; he had to find a safe way to transport the explosive as well as a method to have control of the detonation of nitroglycerin. In 1864 the company Nitroglycerin AB was founded and a mass production of nitroglycerin started, and the following year,1865, he opened up the first factory abroad in Hamburg. Alfred still worked on the safety issue of the explosive, and in 1866 he successfully mixed nitroglycerin with silica which turned the liquid into a paste. This paste, which could be formed and shaped as desired, made it possible for safe transportation. The new material was patented in 1867 under the name "dynamite." He also invented a blasting cap (detonator) also patented, which could be ignited by lighting a fuse. The market for dynamite and blasting caps grew very rapidly and over the years Alfred founded factories in over 20 countries in 90 different locations. In 1893 he bought the Bofors-Gullspang company in Sweden, today a world known munitions and firearm factory.

[Helms]

Rush was, however, correct, when pointing out that the award has become a "Joke".

[dead]

You have to hit some mules square in the head with a two-by-four before they get the point.

[backhoe]

It's a satire...

Precisely... and as I recall, Nobel thought dynamite was such a quantuum jump in destructive power ( remember, they used black gunpowder in those days ) that it would make war too horrible to wage...

[dead]

For those who missed this gem yesterday:

The Trite Stuff - Reflections of an ex-president (Classic, priceless Carter bashing)

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Two years after his death, one of Nobel's collaborators, Henry de Mosenthal, wrote an article about him in a periodical that had first appeared in 1877. It was called simply "The Inventor of Dynamite". Despite the title of his article, Mosenthal dealt as much with Nobel's dreams as with his inventions, stressing that Nobel was always interested in inventions that had no direct military significance, and that he took out as many as 355 patents. "He always considered," Mosenthal added, "that by improving war material and thus increasing the dangers of war, he was contributing his share towards the pacification of the world."

[fight_truth_decay]

Nobel: .. "my factories may well put an end to war before your Congresses. For in the day that two armies are capable of destroying each other in a second, all civilized nations will surely recoil before a war and dismiss their troops."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Carter's Nobel Prize will be forever stained with the fact that the Nobel Committee was taking a shot at George Bush, not praising Carter for anything he'd done recently.

[backhoe]

Thanks for the quote... what I recall is from childhood, and very dim.

[MosesKnows]

So there you have it: this is who the Nobel Peace Prize is named after, the guy who invented dynamite and sold it worldwide.

Rush should educate himself enough to learn the reason Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Peace Prize; you would be well served to do the same.

[clintonh8r]

Rush looks bad on this one. I think Nobel established and funded the prize in order to somehow compensate for the destructive product he'd invented. I see nothing wrong in that.

Rush should have attacked those who deserve it: The Nobel committee for using the prize to make a political statement, and Jimmuh Cawtuh for accepting the prize under such circumstances. Unfortunately, the committee has become politicized, and L'il Jimmy, like every RAT, is legacy-driven.

[IronJack]

Well, gee, Rush. Only about every other second grader knows this. Do you have a point?

[socal_parrot]

In 1842, Alfred Nobel's family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he obtained his education. A-ha!

I would imagine that Rush is trying to stretch a theory that someone educated in Czarist Russia in the 1840's is a flaming communist. While some other information in this thread may prove that Nobel had left-leaning thinkings, nothing in Rush's monologue proves that Nobel was a "Left-Wing Kook". I would imagine that the reason Nobel created the award is far different than the reason it is presented today.

[Physicist]

I would imagine that Rush is trying to stretch a theory that someone educated in Czarist Russia in the 1840's is a flaming communist.

I would imagine that he's trying to make it obvious that he's kidding.

[Fiddlstix]

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[billhilly]

Aren't internet search engines great?

[FOMTY]

I think Rush might be "Ed Anger" from the Weekly World News. Seriously.

[fight_truth_decay]

...little bit of satire never hurt anyone..now if it had been published in the Onion
;)..however I believe, "giving" is often for the benefit of oneself.

[fight_truth_decay]

..seek and ye shall find.

[billhilly]

Ask and it shall be given.

[NYCop]

I thought Al Gore invented everything...

[Mr. Mulliner]

I happened to hear Rush yesterday going on about this and I was extremely disappointed. I'm no expert on Alfred Nobel, but nothing Rush said about him made me think that there is any reason to blame him for the idiocies of the current Nobel Peace Prize committee.

Sometimes Rush really does more than his share to give conservatives a bad name. He was acting like it's a wimpy and leftist activity to write novels and poetry. What a ridiculous notion that is!

And going on about Nobel creating the original WMD? That is just plain silly. It doesn't take much to know that dynomite has been used much more to build roads than to kill people.

I listened to about as much as I could take, but finally had to click Rush off yesterday.