AN ACCIDENTAL INVENTION.
♦ It is to an accidental invention made by an Italian chemist named Sobrero fifty-nine years ago that the world cf to-day owes a surprisingly laige proportion of the material progress made since that time. After the manner of many chemists of his time, Sobrero devoted a lot of energy to original investigations. He was constantly making mixtures and compounds of various substances, just to see what would happen, and without any definite expectation as to the results. One day Sobrero got glycerine, strong sulphuric acid, and concentrated nitric acid together. The result was the violently, explosive liquid now known as nitro-glycerine. He does not seem to have had any serious mishaps with it, though a list of men who have been blown to atoms by it since his day would be an appalling one.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 27 April 1907, Page 4
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137AN ACCIDENTAL INVENTION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 27 April 1907, Page 4
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