Experimenting on a raft anchored on the river Elbe, Alfred Nobel tries to make nitroglycerine safer to handle. Finds that the addition of kieselguhr turns nitroglycerine into a dough that can be kneaded, and calls it "dynamite".
Alfred Nobel is a mad scientist.
( z1 scientist :ARG1-of ( z2 mad ) :domain ( z3 person :name ( z4 name :op "Alfred" :op "Nobel" ) ) )