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by ethelward 2829 days ago
Like many technologies, dynamite is a two edged sword. All in all, I'd wage it had much more civilian applications than military ones. And Nobel invented it because of the large numbers of _civilian_ workers being killed or injured in nitroglycerin accidents.

IMHO, smokeless powder is, compared to dynamite, _the_ military invention of the time.