At the dawn of civilization, mankind aspired to harness the destructive power of fire, but it wasn't until the 1860s that mankind truly entered the age of explosives. Alfred Nobel, with his extraordinary intuition, brought about a radical change in the world through the development of explosives. Dynamite, which made many of the large-scale projects that changed the face of the earth a reality, also caused a large number of casualties and caused immeasurable and irreparable damage to the environment. In the midst of this drastic change in society, Nobel leapt to become one of the richest men, but all this made him uneasy. Eventually, he used his entire fortune to establish the Nobel Prize, a prestigious award named after himself.
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