Michael Evlanoff Marjorie Fluor (15 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket is chipped and foxed. Black cloth boards have tiny corner bumps. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Only. First Edition. Biography of Alfred Nobel - his personal life, and his genius and professional life. Dust jacket has moderate edgechips. Book.

Condition: Good. - Octavo, black cloth with a portrait in blind on he front cover, in a dust wrapper. The top & bottom edges of the binding are slightly faded. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with the head of its spine torn & the remnants of a small sticker on its front panel. Black-and-white illustrations. Very good in a good dust wrapper. Foreword by Simon Ramo. Commentaries by Arnold O. Beckman and Henry T. Mudd.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Some dust jacket wear. ; 336 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust. First Edition. Book is in VG condition with light foxing to edges, boards bowed slightly else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with creasing to rear fly, rubbing to edges & spine, small chip to foot of spine else bright and intact.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B/w (illustrator). 1st. 1st printing; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; maps on end papers; 336 clern, unmarked pages/index.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ, some rub & minor chip DJ, FORMER Owner name,1969, 1st edition, VG/VG-, AS-IS.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. 336 Pp. As New In As New Dj, Price Clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 336pp. inc. index, several nicks & cuts, stained, edge wear to non price clipped DJ. Book and text, clean, tight binding, no marks or tears. Illustrated . SIGNED and inscribed by AUTHOR. MARJORIE FLUOR.on half title page. Illustrated. frontispiece of Alfred Nobel. about 1890. biography. Size 8vo. Signed by Author(s).

First edition 336pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (gum stains to free endpapers) d/w excellent in plastic, illust.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The Ward Ritchie Press, 1969. Signed and inscribed by Marjorie Fluor on half-Title page; dustjacket very lightly rubbed/bumped/sunned, faintly soiled, top corners/spine end barely chipped, bottom edge rear flap lightly bumped with small tear, spine sunned, dustjacket otherwise intact; cover very barely rubbed, spine ever-so-slightly sunned; edges lightly sunned, top edge faintly soiled; binding tight; cover, edges and interior intact and very clean, except where noted. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Daniel R. DeChaine (endpaper maps) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. xv, [1]. 336 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Tables. Appendix. Index. Foreword by Simon Ramo. Commentaries by Arnold O. Beckman and Henry T. Mudd. Some front board weakness noted. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and is soiled and worn. Some edge soiling. Michael Evlanoff wrote Alfred Nobel: Prize Donor in 1944. This current work, written in collaboration with Marjorie Fluor, completes his revelations of his intimate knowledge of this extraordinary Alfred Nobel and of the Nobel family. Marjorie Fluor was the wife of J. Simon Fluor of the famed Fluor Corporation. She was active in many philanthropic organizations which led in part to her interest in Alfred Nobel "who combined an industrial empire with scientific invention and a compassionate love for his fellow man." Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 - 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. After reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. His name also survives in modern-day companies such as Dynamit Nobel and AkzoNobel, which are descendants of mergers with companies Nobel himself established. As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work. There he met Ascanio Sobrero, who had invented nitroglycerin three years before. Sobrero strongly opposed the use of nitroglycerin, as it was unpredictable, exploding when subjected to heat or pressure. But Nobel became interested in finding a way to control and use nitroglycerin as a commercially usable explosive, as it had much more power than gunpowder. At age 18, he went to the United States for one year to study chemistry, working for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. Nobel filed his first patent, an English patent for a gas meter, in 1857, while his first Swedish patent, which he received in 1863, was on 'ways to prepare gunpowder'. The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War (1853-1856), but had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy. In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel (1831-1888), who greatly improved the business. Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerin. Nobel invented a detonator in 1863, and in 1865 designed the blasting cap. On 3 September 1864, a shed used for preparation of nitroglycerin exploded at the factory in Heleneborg, Stockholm, killing five people, including Nobel's younger brother Emil. Dogged and unfazed by more minor accidents, Nobel went on to build further factories, focusing on improving the stability of the explosives he was developing. Nobel invented dynamite in 1867, a substance easier and safer to handle than the more unstable nitroglycerin. Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally. In 1875 Nobel invented gelignite, more stable and powerful than dynamite, and in 1887 patented ballistite, a predecessor of cordite.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Daniel R. DeChaine (endpaper maps) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. xv, [1]. 336 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Tables. Appendix. Index. Foreword by Simon Ramo. Commentaries by Arnold O. Beckman and Henry T. Mudd. DJ soiled & worn: small tear. Pencil # on front of DJ. Signed by one author (Fluor). Michael Evlanoff wrote Alfred Nobel: Prize Donor in 1944. This work, written in collaboration with Marjorie Fluor, completes his revelations of his intimate knowledge of this extraordinary Alfred Nobel and of the Nobel family. Marjorie Fluor was the wife of J. Simon Fluor of the famed Fluor Corporation. She was active in many philanthropic organizations which led in part to her interest in Alfred Nobel "who combined an industrial empire with scientific invention and a compassionate love for his fellow man." Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 - 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. After reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. His name also survives in modern-day companies such as Dynamit Nobel and AkzoNobel, which are descendants of mergers with companies Nobel himself established. As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work. There he met Ascanio Sobrero, who had invented nitroglycerin three years before. Sobrero strongly opposed the use of nitroglycerin, as it was unpredictable, exploding when subjected to heat or pressure. But Nobel became interested in finding a way to control and use nitroglycerin as a commercially usable explosive, as it had much more power than gunpowder. At age 18, he went to the United States for one year to study chemistry, working for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. Nobel filed his first patent, an English patent for a gas meter, in 1857, while his first Swedish patent, which he received in 1863, was on 'ways to prepare gunpowder'. The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War (1853-1856), but had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy. In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel (1831-1888), who greatly improved the business. Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerin. Nobel invented a detonator in 1863, and in 1865 designed the blasting cap. On 3 September 1864, a shed used for preparation of nitroglycerin exploded at the factory in Heleneborg, Stockholm, killing five people, including Nobel's younger brother Emil. Dogged and unfazed by more minor accidents, Nobel went on to build further factories, focusing on improving the stability of the explosives he was developing. Nobel invented dynamite in 1867, a substance easier and safer to handle than the more unstable nitroglycerin. Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally. In 1875 Nobel invented gelignite, more stable and powerful than dynamite, and in 1887 patented ballistite, a predecessor of cordite.

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