Stockholm, Sept 3, 2025 (AFP) - Lost for 50 years, Nobel patents found in Swedish summer home

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2025-09-03

A dozen patents belonging to Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel and lost for almost 50 years were recently found in a Swedish couple's summer house, the Nobel Foundation told AFP. Nobel -- who discovered dynamite in 1867 and created the Nobel Prizes in his 1895 will -- had hundreds of patents in several countries, most of them concerning production methods and uses for explosives using nitroglycerin. "We got a call from a person wor......

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