His non-explosive invention patents include gas meters, acid evaporators, explosion-proof boilers, silent cartridge ejection methods, improved batteries, improved telephones and engines, rayon spinnerets, etc.
Explosives are increasingly used to make weapons and are increasingly used in warfare. This is very different from Nobel's original intention of inventing modern explosives. He never had any intention to conquer other people's territories and plunder their property. He was even a liberal cosmopolitan with utopian ideas due to his work that traveled around the world. Therefore, on various occasions, he denounced war and compared it to the chief of all evils.