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- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Uniform Title
- Immanuel Nobel & söne. English
- Alternative Title
- Immanuel Nobel & söne.
- Subject
- Note
- Foreword -- Part 1: 1. Immanuel 2. Immanuel Nobel & Sons 3. Immanuel and Andriette -- Part 2: 4. Ludvig 5. Robert 6. Robert & Ludvig 7. The Nobel Brothers 8. The End of an Epoch -- Part 3: 9. The Third Generation 10. Emanuel 11. The Age of Greatness 12. Welfare and Charity 13. Political Unrest, Economic Growth and War 14. Anno 1917 -- Part 4: Postscript Afterword Family Tree Picture Credits Notes Bibliography Index
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2023).
- Contents
- Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- PART ONE -- 1 IMMANUEL -- At sea -- Carl XIV Johan's triumphal arch -- The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts -- The inventor -- Gummi elasticum -- Lars Gabriel von Haartman -- 2 IMMANUEL NOBEL & SONS -- The city on the Neva -- Explosive experiments -- Colonel Ogaryov's and Mr Nobel's licensed mechanical wheel factory and foundry -- Nobel & Sons -- Daily life in St Petersburg -- Roof trusses and window frames -- The Crimean War -- Catastrophe -- 3 IMMANUEL AND ANDRIETTE
- 'The lawsuit against the Crown' -- Blasting oil -- Robert becomes a brewer -- Underwater mines in Swedish waters -- The initial ignition principle -- The second lawsuit against the Crown -- 'The Nobel bang' -- Venus and Mercury -- The Nitroglycerine Company Ltd -- Shared honour -- Shavings for the benefit of the homeland -- 'One of the men representative of their century' -- PART TWO -- 4 LUDVIG -- The Ludvig Nobel Machine Factory -- From muzzle-loaders to breech-loaders -- Vladimir Baranovsky -- The Russian Technological Society -- Robert returns to St Petersburg -- Ludvig's honeymoon trip
- The Berdanka -- Profi t-sharing and reform of working conditions -- 5 ROBERT -- The Caucasus -- The de Boer Brothers -- Logistical challenges -- A St Petersburg interlude -- Bad Kube -- City of the Winds -- 6 ROBERT AND LUDVIG -- Excise duty -- 'Brilliant results' -- 'Views on the oil industry in Baku and its future' -- Ludvig's programme -- The Nobel brothers' Naphtha Production Company -- The men around Robert -- Robert's last days in Baku -- 7 THE NOBEL BROTHERS -- 'Our works are large and magnificent' -- Villa Petrolea -- The pessimist and the optimist
- The Transcaucasian Railway and the house of Rothschild -- The year 1886 -- 8 THE END OF AN EPOCH -- The Swedish parish and societies -- Social life -- Nordenskiöld -- Summer retreats -- An epoch is buried -- 'A shining example' -- The first Nobel prize -- The inheritance -- PART THREE -- 9 THE THIRD GENERATION -- The Emperor's visit -- Leadership problems -- Ivar Lagerwall -- Carl Nobel and the machine factory -- Brother Hjalmar -- Cousin Hjalmar -- 10 EMANUEL -- The Syndicate -- The Rothschild's and Standard Oil -- The problems seen from Robert's vantage point -- Not 'what' but 'who'
- The fateful year of 1896 -- 11 THE AGE OF GREATNESS -- Karl Vassilievitch -- Cream separators and internal combustion engines -- Political unrest -- 'Bloody Sunday' -- Emanuel the politician -- 12 WELFARE AND CHARITY -- The Nobel towns -- The People's House -- Marta -- 'A little Sweden on Russian soil' -- Selma Lagerlöf's visit -- Kirjola -- 13 POLITICAL UNREST, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND WAR -- The king and his princes -- Olsen and Hagelin depart -- Economic growth -- New deposits -- World war -- Consumer societies and hospitals -- 14 ANNO 1917 -- The Bolshevik coup -- Civil war -- Exile in Kislovodsk
- ISBN
- 9781350348943
- 1350348945
- 9781350348929
- 1350348929
- 9781350348936
- 1350348937
- LCCN
- 10.5040/9781350348943
- OCLC
- om3697023916
- Author
Jangfeldt, Bengt, 1948- author.
- Title
The Nobel Family : Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia / Bengt Jangfeldt ; translated from the Swedish by Harry D. Watson.
- Publisher
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
- Edition
1st ed.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
text file HTML
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Watson, Harry D., translator.
EBSCOhost
- Other Form:
Original 1350348910 9781350348912
- Other Standard Identifier
10.5040/9781350348943 doi