The men tried unsuccessfully to purchase weapons from an FBI informant, including AK-47s, M16s, M60s, rocket propelled grenades, rockets, semi-automatic Sig Sauer 9 mm handguns, Smith & Wesson 9 mm, C-4 plastic explosive, and nitroglycerin.
In 2000, Canadian authorities determined that a small group of angry Algerian men were harmless, and called them just a "bunch of guys." One of the group's members, Ahmed Ressam, was later detained with a load of nitroglycerin and timing devices that he planned to use in a terror attack at Los Angeles International Airport.
After the death of his younger brother Emil in an 1864 nitroglycerin explosion at the family's armaments factory in Heleneborg, Stockholm, Nobel founded Nitroglycerin AB in Vinterviken, Stockholm.
There his son Alfred Nobel and Alfred's brothers experimented with the safe handling of the explosive nitroglycerin.
In addition, EMT-Bs are trained to assist patients with administration of preprescribed nitroglycerin, Metered-dose inhaler such as albuterol, epinephrine auto injectors such as the EpiPen.
The new plant and the new town for the workers and families were named Penniman, in honor of Russell Sylvanus Penniman, an American chemist who is credited with the invention of ammonia dynamite in 1885, a safer form than the nitroglycerin used with Alfred Nobel's original formulation.
His student Ascanio Sobrero was the discoverer of nitroglycerin (1847), and another student, Alfred Nobel, was to take that discovery on to great heights in the form of commercial explosives including dynamite.