Bokföring från nitroglycerinfabriken i Fredriksberg i Finland
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2009.016.000
Titel
Bokföring från nitroglycerinfabriken i Fredriksberg i Finland
Publik beskrivning
These books contain the accounts from a nitroglycerin factory in Fredriksberg outside Helsinki. The factory was established by Robert Nobel in 1865.
When Alfred Nobel began his attempts to launch nitroglycerin internationally as an explosive, it must have seemed natural to approach Russia and Finland, which was a grand duchy in the Russian Empire. Parts of his family still lived there.
Robert Nobel’s wife Pauline was from Helsinki, and the family were residents of the city around 1865. Like his brother Alfred and his father Immanuel, Robert Nobel was involved in the early production of nitroglycerin and built a factory in Pasila outside Helsinki in 1865. However, the attempts to launch nitroglycerin in Finland failed. Robert Nobel moved to Sweden, where he was periodically the director of the nitroglycerin plant in Vinterviken outside Stockholm.
The books were donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by Hans Nobel in 2002.
